I think these two messages led me to call the police:

Message #1428765
Message #1428747

(I had to read the messages to the police before they would consider action) I'm relieved it all turned out ok, and given your efforts to stay sober this time, it may get better for you and your daughters. If you didn't have your address under your UT profile, I wouldn't have been able to do a thing. That was the address I gave the police.

Keep up the effort...

BTW, during one of your previous episodes, I had the UT up, but I was away from my desk so I missed it all. Thank goodness Naomi acted that time.


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>BTW, I never thanked you properly for making that call to the police last month. I don't remember saying anything overt, like the goodbye note in January 2008, but you sensed something alarming enough in my posts to call the Round Lake cops. They arrived quickly, did a quick assessment, and insisted I be taken to the hospital. (Against my will, which sounds amazing until you see a drunk in full sail). One of the many docs I saw told me I would probably be dead if not for the emergency intervention, and was lucky even then. He was Indian or possibly Middle Eastern, a very small man. He said if it had been him he would be dead, "no chance." So thank you. It sounds trite but I literally would not be typing this if not for you.
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>It's actually been going pretty well since. Staying sober, one day at a time. Going to meetings every day. Taking a new medication which is intended to reduce the urge to drink or drug. (Yes, it is supposed to work on both. Some gateway in the brain mucked with, same principle as antidepressants). Keeping myself as busy as I can, even if the activities seem uninspiring. Trying to follow the 12 step program, which is a work in progress. My analytical approach to things fights it at every step of the way. What keeps me going is other members, long sober, who have said they felt exactly the same way until they got desperate enough to try anything.
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>I could write a book <g>. Scratch that idea. The alcoholic memoir genre is already overplowed. (Thanks,James Frey).
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>Thanks also to a couple of UT members, who remain anonymous for obvious reasons, who have given me great encouragement and strength the past month. (NOT Tamar, it should be hastened; she really is a teetotaler). The core value of AA is to help other alcoholics who still suffer. The 12th step: "Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs." In essence, pass it on.
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