6 days!

[hurtin4certin]

Here I am 6 whole days of being clean! This time on MY terms and NO ONE ELSE'S!

Yesterday was a very trying and difficult day for me at work.  All things that could've went wrong did and had I not built my support network of coming on here and remembering the key fundamentals of NA I would have definitely threw in the towel and went to get my DOC.  I'm glad I persisted through the tough dayI by reaching out to my mother and sister, along with playing out the tape if I did use.  It would be the ABSOLUTE dumbest thing I could've done and I am so glad I didn't!

Sleep, my biggest enemy right now, is slightly improving.  Thursday night I couldn't fall asleep until about 1:30am after I took a nice hot shower and laid back down and got 4 hours in.  And last night, after a 10 hour work day, I fell asleep around 8:45pm to wake up at 12:45 and thought I'd be doomed of being up all night.  Well I was up for about 4 hours but I did manage to fall back asleep around 4am and woke back up at 7am.  I'll take it!  But I simply can't wait to sleep just 5-6 hours straight.  I am starting to learn/enjoy getting up early every day.  Today, I was a little lazy after taking my L-Tyrosine but did get going by taking the dog out at 9 am followed by getting a hair cut, getting gas in my car and putting air in the tires to take care of a pesky maintenance light followed by laundry that I put off while I was using for the past month after a 7 day clean stint.  I am so happy I am being productive.  While it sucked at the time, I am also grateful for the feelings I felt during that hellacious 10 hr day yesterday.  I'm starting to feel like a human again!  

I plan on meeting with friends to watch the Syracuse basketball game in a couple of hours at 4pm tonight and stride into my 7th day!  Happy March everyone!!!!

Tim

[Amandag78]

Congratulations on 6 days !!

[OpenMind24hours]

Congrats on 6 days!!! Good that you're at least sleeping at 6 days. You're still detoxing and a bundle of nerves is what's keeping you awake. The combination of finishing detoxing and a huge case of the sleepies will soon net you a good night's sleep. That's the sign that things will rapidly get much better than now. Stay away from sleep aids. Your nervous system will take care of everything naturally. You're doing great!!!

[clean_in_ks]

You sound GOOD...glad you're pushin thru.....6 DAYS IS FABULOUS!!!

Thanks for reminding me about the Syracuse game......course you know WSU outranks them.....March Madness here we come ...hahahaha!!!

[ROSYouralright]

Congratulations!! Your doing great! Keep pushing forward!

[CRSeaside]

You sound marvelous Tim. Good to read your uplifting post! Pamela