My name is Donna and I'm an alcoholic. I was an alcoholic waiting to happen. The short version is I picked up at age 12 and was off and running. I started with booze and took anything and everything that would get me high. By the time I was 16 I was a full-blown alcoholic.
What at first made it possible for me to be the life of the party and to be comfortable with myself ended up being the enemy. I was suicidal, depressed and on a one way ticket to death. Diagnosed with an enlarged liver at the age of 20 I prayed to God He'd let me die. Somewhere in there I attended my first AA meeting at the urging of a friend. What? Me, an alcoholic? My war cry was that I could stop any time I wanted to, I just didn't want to. Little did I know that alcohol and drugs were calling all the shots at this point.
After a year of drinking of on and off drinking while attending AA, the program finally took hold. My new life began July 29, 1980. Sobriety has had its ups and downs and life does for all of us but I am forever grateful to have a way of life that teaches me how to life my life 1 day at a time. I do the same things today that I did when 1st getting sober. I get on my knees and ask for help, I go to meetings, I sponsor people and have a sponsor, I do spiritual and program readings, I talk to people in the program and work the steps to the best of my ability. I pray God I never forget Step 1.