Good to be back!!! Hope everyone is okay.....Atrayou

Hey Atrayou!!..Its good to be back..I e-mailed Annie B because hers and yours are the only addresses that I had..Hopefully BT will be back up again and life as we knew it will be the norm again

Ive been feeling ok, been hitting meetings etc..I have some loose ends to tie up but life is good

Steve

Hey guys!

I'm here--sober and happy, joyous and free! Well, I wouldn't go THAT far, but I am here and sober and that's the main thing!

Many thanks, Steve, for the heads up about this temporary forum. I had just about given up going to the crash site. It was depressing every day to see the same accident scene, wrecked vehicles and all.

Lots of talk over at Forum Feedback about JL giving up the reins here. I've been around for about 3 years now and when I think of Braintalk, I think of JL in the same breath--it wouldn't be the same, psychologically, to know he wasn't here anymore. I'm glad that I'm not over there putting in my $.02 and trying to control things. 5 years ago, I would have been.

If I don't drink in the next 3 weeks, I'll have 4 years on Sept. 16 (She pats herself on the back.) What a miracle!

Ellie broke my glasses last night. The old ones I dug up are from about 10 prescriptions ago. I didn't think it was possible for my eyes to get any worse, but they have, they definitely have.

Off to finish at the J-O-B and then to the opthamologist and then to the Lens Cutter. I'll be back!

xoxo,
Annie B.

Hi Annie..Good to see youve made it over here!..I would have liked to have been able to inform more people but unfortunately the only to e-mail addresses that I had were yours and Atrayou's

Yeah there sure is a lot of chit chat over at the Forum Feedback..I take John at his word that it just happened at a bad time, and what can you do? Life happens..I guess there are some folks in serious withdrawals.. ..I know that over the past couple of weeks Ive felt really disconnected..But he promises to have it up and running soon..It was really nice of Dr John to provide this refugee camp in the interum..

Congrats on your upcoming 4 years..

For the reply.

What I love about the program is that, I never ever have to feel disconnected unless I choose to. I have a couple of telephone books full of numbers and dozens of meetings I know of on any given day (the beauty of living near a big city) and my state of mind is a choice today.

I have to say though, that today I have a choice only because I've made the biggest decision of all, and that's the one I make daily to not drink (or drug) I must remember that if I ever choose the other way, I lose ALL I have been blessed with over these past 4 years.

The hustle for Summer Sessions begins soon. The weekend after Labor Day, some 5,000 of your best friends, most of whom you haven't met yet, will begin gathering outside the Plim Plaza on the Boards in OC, Maryland to celebrate a long (Tuesday-Sunday) weekend of meetings, workshops, spirituality, bonfires, deep sea fishing, dinners out, comraderie, and just hanging by the shore talking program. Everywhere you go you run into another sober drunk. It's awesome and I absolutely love it

The Plim is a hotel that has seen it's better days, but then again, so have all of us! It's on 2nd street and we;ll be rolling in late Wednesday night about 11:00. Stop on by if you'd like.

We'll, the bad news from the doc I saw tonight is that I've had a major change in eye strength and the bottom line is that the helper (she was nice and honest) couldn't keep 3 pair of glasses under a $1,000.00 buckeroos. When I see 20 of the most beautiful pairs that look equally great of me, but I only need three, I was trully blessed be a sales lady who truly helped me without looking at prices. She was awesome. Man, what a rambler I've become. I hope I'm better tomorrow!

xoxo,
Annie B. (She lives!!!)

Annie, I should have been more specific..I missed my friends on the Parkinsons forum..A few of us kept in touch, but there were so many more that I lost touch with

I'm here, safe and sober but missing the heck out of you guys. I've had some serious health problems but for the help of my DDDDSSSSH would not have a job, income of self worth. He's the best and this may be a small place to pay him homage, but Andy, dearheart, you continue to prove yourself over and over again and I have noting but undying love for you and supreme confidence for us and our little family.

xoxo,
Me