The Brave Babes Battle Bus - Head To The Summer Of Sobriety

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Hello

I'm Mouse

Welcome aboard The Brave Babe's Battle Bus. There are a whole host of lovely posters here who will support your journey to sobriety, however you choose to get there.

We are a Bus full of drinkers, non-drinkers and those who are somewhere in between.

BUT - we will never judge or leave a poster out in the cold. So, find a seat and settle down for the journey ahead.

And HERE is the last thread and those before it too. Just follow the links to read the journeys so far.

Silver!!! Me old mucker, how the devil are you?

It's not that easy........ he has to get used to the respite worker and I want it to be the same person who he has to get to know.

It will take weeks for him to trust her and I will have to be here for a long while.

Eventually, he'll be used to her and I WILL get out of the house. It's a slow and steady process but trust me, I want this more than anything but I can't leave him until he is 100% happy with another person, especially if he's ill.

I can't wait for those days to come xx

Hey zany, we might have schlepped passed each other! I had an amazing time, hope you did too apart from seeing your ex-p. Being sober means that I actually remember it all! Every other time I'd been using and drinking, and while I thought I was having a ball in the moment, I could never properly remember afterwards. Pretty sure I've seen Coldplay there before, but can't remember. It's truly daft. Anyway this time was memorable in so many ways.

and you 'me young mucker' should listen to wise old me

how will he get used to someone else if you are there - you will be the one he turns to - at first of course you should be but..................

he will be safe

he might get upset

it won't kill him

he will survive

the first few times will be hell for you

but YOU KNOW you have to do it

Soooooooooooo Ugly Mug

Get your head round it and work towards taking some time out FOR YOU

you know I love you Mouse

xxxx

DD taken computer - I'll be back x

Silver - that's not how the system works, it's not me calling the shots.

They decide when they think he's ready for me to leave the house.

It's all up to them. Which is why I want him to have the same person, in the hope that he will get used to them faster.

It's all in a cintrolled environment as in set play and interaction.

Nothing is up to me I promise otherwise I'd have her here 1 hour for 3 days instead of 3 hours for 1 day.

Little and often so that he is happy.

I'm not 'allowed' to leave her with him until she's been assessed a few weeks in.

I'm not dodging the issues of seperation, it's just not in my control xxxx

hello silver!! nice to see you being your usual tactful self!!

how are getting on with the naltr... stuff? do you feel any better?

im doing ok, still have the on/off struggle with it, really struggled in paris but im so proud i got through it its kind of bouyed me up for the last week or so!, i keep thinking if i can manage in that environment then i can manage here!

Off to get my tv fix, I'm watching that thing on Polar bears and they are ralking about 'penis bones'

I am such a child!

Night all xxxx

Hey JWN - I'm fine

Mouse - sorry - assumed too much and not my place

xxxxx

just back from meeting with venus
God that woman can drink!

I thought you promised not to tell!

Lovely to see you around silver

mouse thanks for explaining about the respite system, I'd have been leaping in with Silver, encouraging you to take a break. Hope you sleep well tonight, and get it sorted soon.

only kidding. we had a lovely sober time and slagged off everyone else on the thread!!!

you promised not to tell about that either

ma! - did you both have a lovely time?

im nearly off to bed, got a nice new 'house' magazine to flick through, we are shifting all the upstairs rooms around over the next few months, i fancy taking up all the carpets and lime waxing the floorboards and making new curtains etc. i will be getting a proper dressing room and i want to find one of those mirrors with the light bulbs round the edge (, just wondering if thats a good idea at my age! )

anyway, see you all in the morning!

L XXXXXXX

Well I'm going to tell all....... ma is really lovely: bright and sparky and sparkly . And REAL.

oh! you did have a lovely time then!

psstt ma!! is venus a hairy arsed trucker!

lol ladies!!! Where is everyone then (geographically!) lol

ma can't speak at the moment - she's tied up in the back of my van. Har! har!

I'm in South East London.

And no lady ...

jesus - in answer to your question, he is indeed!!!
but lovely nevertheless!
rusmum am in Scotland.
Where, oh where, is Indie?????

morning!!

just to let you know, im in touch with isisndi, she is fine, just really busy with work and family stuff and generally disapearing up her own wotsit in a whirl of bissyness!

today i am mostly going to my ladies meeting! , got some new ladies coming today so have to there to meet and greet - i often wonder if im meeting someone i have chatted with on here, i find more and more that we live in a very small world so its not beyond the realms!

im in sunny suffolk btw rusmum!

Silver - not at all, I know that you were asking because you care and I love you for that, you are fab xx

venus and Ma - I am of your meet! Glad you had a lovely time.

Have just got off the phone to the respite team, they have ditched the lady we don't know and set up the one we do for shorter periods of time, more often in the week.

That way is much better because she'll be a regular in his life sooner which = TIME OFF FOR MOUSE!!!

Busy day here, back later xx

I'm also in SE London.