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WE got my brother in law in rehab
This is so sad. In one week he got in 2 car accidents. By Friday he was a gonner so he did agree to go into the hospital. He was so out of it he didn't know his name. When his son got him there he was wearing 7 fentnyal patches, had ingested God knows how many pain pills AND no one has a clue as to when he'd been sober last. IT's a complete miracle that he is alive. He should have died of an overdose.
My heart is breaking for him because it is all taking me back to that day on March 29, l987 when I knew that I could not go on one more minute trying to find happiness or peace of mind in the bottom of a bottle. Getting sober was so hard for me that giving natural child birth to 12 children would have been much easier. I struggled every minute of every day for 2 solid years. I went to at least one meeting a day for that 2 years and had my phone contacts that I could and did use 24/7.
I was so weak that I carried the Big Book with me where ever I went. I worked in a wet place and for me, it was the best medicine because those people were ME, the ME I didn't want to be anymore. God, I was in sooooooooooooooooooooo much pain and I know that my brother in law is in the same amount of pain. He wasn't trying to kill himself with all the booze and the pain meds, he was just trying to make the pain stop.
All's I can do for him is pray. And, if he decides to work the 12 steps when he gets out and if he goes to meetings when he gets out, I will be there for him 100%. My in-laws are bible thumpers and they believe that everything is possible if you read the bible. They don't realize that right now he's not thinkin' God's on his side so the bible isn't the book he needs to be reading. I am a VERY strong willed person and so is my mother-in-law. We've already butted heads once and I'm sure, before this is over, we will butt heads many more times. So be it....he is my AA brother and I will do what I can do to give him the help he needs to find his way....please, we know how strong the power of prayer is, pray for Keith.
My heart is breaking for him because it is all taking me back to that day on March 29, l987 when I knew that I could not go on one more minute trying to find happiness or peace of mind in the bottom of a bottle. Getting sober was so hard for me that giving natural child birth to 12 children would have been much easier. I struggled every minute of every day for 2 solid years. I went to at least one meeting a day for that 2 years and had my phone contacts that I could and did use 24/7.
I was so weak that I carried the Big Book with me where ever I went. I worked in a wet place and for me, it was the best medicine because those people were ME, the ME I didn't want to be anymore. God, I was in sooooooooooooooooooooo much pain and I know that my brother in law is in the same amount of pain. He wasn't trying to kill himself with all the booze and the pain meds, he was just trying to make the pain stop.
All's I can do for him is pray. And, if he decides to work the 12 steps when he gets out and if he goes to meetings when he gets out, I will be there for him 100%. My in-laws are bible thumpers and they believe that everything is possible if you read the bible. They don't realize that right now he's not thinkin' God's on his side so the bible isn't the book he needs to be reading. I am a VERY strong willed person and so is my mother-in-law. We've already butted heads once and I'm sure, before this is over, we will butt heads many more times. So be it....he is my AA brother and I will do what I can do to give him the help he needs to find his way....please, we know how strong the power of prayer is, pray for Keith.
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