The Brave Babes Battle Bus - Driving Through The Autumn Scenes, Searching For Our Sober Dreams.

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Hello, I'm Mouse :) Welcome to the Bus, (aka Gerald ).

I'm one of the Brave Babes on board this fabulous Bus of travellers, all in search of their sobriety in one form or another.

We have those who drink in moderation, those who have a set pattern of days on and off the booze, and we have posters who have been sober for minutes, hours, days, weeks, months or years.

There are two lines that the Bus has painted down the side, one on each -

The Vulnerable Need Our Support, Not Our Judgement and Alcohol Fosters Inertia

So, if you think you're drinking too much or you're worried about another person, then come find a seat.

We get through our days chatting about all sorts of things, life is, after all, full of plenty of things to fuel our desire to drink, and we're all very different people

However, our common goal is sobriety. :)

The Last Thread

The Reason We're Here - The First Thread

I knew that penis beaker thread was headed for classics when an American male friend in Boston put it on Facebook. He had never heard of Mumsnet.

Day 30 for me. Maybe tonight I'll get my first AA chip and some of the other women at AA said we'd head out after for something to eat.

My DH rang me to ask for help in getting my son to sleep last night. He has started to not sleep until very late on the days that I have visitations. I hope this isn't traumatizing him. If I sing on speaker phone it works and he calms down. It tears me up everytime.
Hang on baby, Mammys coming back soon and I'll be better than ever for you.

Jessie that's it. If wine is there I am almost guaranteed to drink it. I do try to buy small bottles of wine for myself but dh gets huffy about it. I've only bought one or two bottles of wine since August but sod's law people keep buying it for me! And now dh has made a bit of money he has started to buy it. I need to find a way to be around wine without drinking it...

Anyone struggling to post, try switching to Firefox, Chrome and Explorer are both not working for me but this is :)

I imagine MN towers are loving the exposure. Watch the advertising revenue role in! The internet is a wonderful thing. Come up with an idea where Joe Public writes your content for free then advertise on it! Facebook being the mother of course. Not that i begrudge anyone making a crust. All power to their elbow - wish i'd come up with it!

annie it's hard if your OH is drinking it. Fortunately mine drinks larger and I'm not tempted by that.

why you are doing amazingly. You shine like a beacon babe, I'm humbled by your courage. X

It's funny but in the summer I bought h lager and he was satisfied with that. I can take it or leave it. I think now its getting colder he prefers red wine and at the moment has the money to buy it. A few weeks back he had some and I wasn't tempted - I think I deliberately self sabotage for some reason.

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Please watch this before going to AA. Take care.

I must be going to the wrong meetings....

As somebody in AA (in America-where this documentary is awaiting kickstart funding) and who is in a court appointed recovery program, be assured that the legal system does not plead you out to AA. My judge was very unimpressed that I was in AA and assured my lawyer that it was not "treatment". A separate out-patient treatment is what courts order.

But a very useful post consils.

ma I'll join you in the self-pity corner. Found out today that my teeth are ruined because of ALCOHOL.

Wine, and acid reflux (caused by wine) have made terrible decay. I have to have a tooth extracted on Monday.

The dentist gently and tactfully asked if I'd ever suffered from eating problems. I was so ashamed - I used to make myself throw up if I'd drunk too much. Why? First, to make myself feel less drunk/ill. Second, I think as a kind of self-punishment.

Not exactly an 'eating' disorder - I never did it with food, only alcohol. It was less embarrassing to pretend I had bulimia, than to admit to a drink/vomit problem.

And how to forget my worries? Have some more wine!

In case that's not clear, bulimia causes acid to ruin teeth enamel.

I bet if it's alcohol rather than food, it's probably even more acidic...

Evening, tis me, Mouse

I am v poorly, temp through the roof, Nemo is still not great either, my throat is on fire, I can't stop shivering, and going from ice to fire. I've cancelled all appointments for the week, I'm off to bed too, now that Nemo is asleep at last, he might not be in again tomorrow, and we have our first consultant's appt with a Spinal Surgeon in Manc Children's Hosp, not a journey I am looking forward too.....

How are you all? Where are you all? :) Sorry not to read back and comment on all of your posts.

I'm off to sweat my bits off and then shiver all night.....

Stay Brave Babes xxx

Wow, you really have a bad dose, Mouse. Poor you and Nemo.
Good luck at the hospital tomorrow.

mouse really hope you sweat the horrible bug out tonight and feel better in the morning. Good luck tomorrow will be thinking of you and Nemo.
Sleep wellxxx

Hello again

mouse I'm so sorry you and nemo are so ill

Despite my super-proactiveness failing last week -as I knew it would- I have been sober all week. I had public speaking training (filmed) and general crapness but was sober all week. Unfortunately today did me in, ex-bf moving his things out and a mail merge at work so I got a bottle of wine on the way home.

Argh I should knoe better!

*know even

Hello Babes
Still here. Still sober. Still struggling...
Took an Antabuse the other day which was actually really good as I'm so paranoid that now I won't drink for a week.
Work is going nuts so being sober is excellent. Not sure I would have managed all of this being constantly hungover and/or drunk.
Hope you are Nemo get better Mouse. Big hugs to both of you.
And everyone else keep trying. Doesn't matter if you fail, just the simple fact of trying and having one day sober is better than falling deeper and deeper into the pit of alcohol.
Will write more later.
xx

Can I get back on? Last on a few years ago. Need to get sober and just got a booze delivery but know where I need to be.

Sharpkat I reckon this bus has a circular route. We keep getting off and then it swings back round and picks us up again.
Nice user name btw.

Thanks SocFish. Was my username at work assigned to me.

Will crouch at the back and hope you do not fling me off.

I am going to fight this and some more.

Sharpkat we're all the same. You'll never be kicked off the bus! It's a shit fight, but it's worth it. Terrible addiction. I've been mostly sober for a few weeks and life is better though I'm still battling with that desperate urge to get totally hammered every now and then (tho not daily anymore which is a huge improvement). It does seem to get easier. Those first few days seemed absolutely impossible. Hope you're ok. xx

Hello babes,

I have been lurking but wanted to post to wish Mouse and Nemo better. Get well soon Mouse, and I hope the hospital appointment goes well if you can get there.

I got to day 40 and then the next day had one drink. One. Well guess where it took me.

Have a good day all I will post again later

Love and strength,

Pink X

isinde. My thoughts exactly!

Anyone struggling just pick yourself up and dust yourself down.

And start again! God I have done it soo many times and I am just beginning to get it. X

Morning, tis me, Mouse

Just so you know I reported the post by Consils last night to MNHQ for EXACTLY the same reasons that IsinDe pointed out, I got a 'we'll take a look'

As per usual, clips like this, from YouTube FFS, are a mixture of fact and fiction, to suit the poster's intent. I'm too ill to get into posting wars, plus that is not what this wonderful Bus is about. At all. So, the same applies to me. If you're real, which I heavily doubt, sorry, then come back and I will apologise and try to understand why we you feel the way YOU do about AA.

I honestly don't get the clip from AA, it does NOT connect with me at all. However, if you have other facts or material to back the clip up, then maybe you can educate me and maybe, just maybe, I'll understand why you felt the need to share such shocking footage and currently hearsay on a thread like ours. Again?

Great post isinde !

AA may not be to everyone's taste, but tarring the whole organisation because of some unrelated and co-incidental incidents seems pointless. Yes, vulnerable, addicted and ill people may be taken advantage of by predators, but that could happen anywhere! The benefits surely outweigh any possible risks.