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PERSONAL STORIES
Monday March 5 2007
My name is Carol M., and I'm an alcoholic and an addict. My sober date is December 19, 1989. I'm so grateful to God - who I call my Higher Power - and Bill W. and Dr. Bob.
I'm an Alcohol, Substance Abuse Counselor. And while I was in school, I took a course that talked about how alcoholics were treated before A.A. First of all, alcohol dependence was not considered a disease. One of the treatments consisted of putting leaches on the alcoholic so that they (the leaches) would drain his blood of alcohol. If the leaches didn't kill him, he was left in horrific pain.
Without A.A. in my life, I know that I would be either dead or in an institution.
I haven't seen the play yet, but my friends and I plan on attending the play in April.
- Carol
Saturday March 3 2007
Just wanted to say I am going to be sober for 11 year on May 29, 2007 and i will say this it been the most greatest year of my life and i thank god for using these two powerful men to help other alcoholic to stay sober one day at a time i have'nt seen the show but I will get a group together and go see it. thank you so much Bill and Bob for my soberity.
-Luis
Friday March 1 2007
I started drinking at the age of 12, I was molested at the age of 9 until I was 12, I had an aunt that introduced me to alcohol which was wine and beer. At 12 i would go visit my grandparents in the summer time 1 month out of the summer anyways when my grandparents were at work she would call some boys over and get out the booze that my grandparents had in the cabinet and ice box,,,and I would get so drunk that i would pass out and the boys who were there took advantage of me and would rape me, so i had alot of sexual abuse from the age of 9 to the age of 17.
I met my first husband at the age of 16 and I got pregnant at the age of 17 we got married and another nighmare started ,I didn't drink during my pregnancy. But my first husband was very controling and abusive, I stayed with him until I had my second child after 4 years then I got pregnant again i was 21,,left him cause he was so abusive that he knocked my teeth loss so I had to get dentures at the age of 25.. I found out i was pregnant again and I was forced by my parents to get a abortion which to this day i resent them for that and I feel like god has been punishing me anyways I married again for the second time a mental abuser,,he abused me and my kids emotionally.I stayed with him for 10 years and i finally divorced him in 1997,then I meet my 3rd husband he's totally the opposite of the other two.
He's caring and loving and kind and he always compliments me, well in january 24th i went to see my doctore who is a psyciatrist,,and he put me in the hospital to be detoxed and get clean at first I didn't want to cause I didn't have a problem but i did, I was in denial, of course but my doctor new I did.
I was in rehab for 7 days then i got out and started going to aa meetings,then i got a sponsor who is great she's helping me with the steps and wow its working thank god,,i've been clean since January 24th. I still get the tremors but I don't have a desire to drink by the grace of God i made it but just for today i want to stay sober,thanks for listening.
-Debra
Wednesday Feb 28 2007
Hi, my name is Pat and I am an alcoholic. I have been sober for 7 years now. Thanks to my higher power and the program of AA. This past Sunday I went to see the play Bill W. and Dr. Bob. It was great. The show told the story of AA the way it is . And the way it works. In the seven years that I have been sober, the worst things that could have happened did happen. Two years ago, our house was destroyed by fire. Amazingly I didn't think of taking a drink, thank you Bill and BOB. Seven month's ago my 24 year old son died from a drug overdose. Having a hard time. They say it gets better? The good news is not thinking of a drink. Thank you for passing the mesage on to some who might not understand.
-Patrick
Tuesday Feb 27 2007
I'll have two years sober on April 25th and it's been the best 2 years of my entire life. I owe everything to the rooms of AA and God; I am enternally grateful. I'm definitely gonna have to get some of my friends together to go see this play...thank God for Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob!
-Jamie
Friday Feb 23 2007
I have almost 4 months as of right now. I had 7 1/2 months and I relapsed because I decided to do things on my own and believed that I didn't need the program. I hope that this play will notify others that there is a way, and you don't have to do it alone. You have people and people who care. I cant wait for the show to come out to California. :-)
-Allie
Monday Feb 19 2007
I am 29 years sober and have known so many who refused a chance at sobriety because of imagined social stigma.
I hope this play's openness will help crush the last vestiges of that stigma. AA is the most admired "organization" in the world--and this type of "publicity" can only spread the word.
Thanks,
Eddie
Friday Feb 16 2007
Hi everyone,my name is trish, im a greatfull recovering alcoholic.
Just now,I dropped my lovely son off at Berklee College of Music and on the way home started to cry with joy,thinking to myself as I was listening to his new album,not only would I have not been able to still be in his life today if I was not sober,but would not have the other abilitys and five senses god gave me to enjoy the arts and music as i once did in my youth.Now I give my time freely not only in helping others to acheive sobriety but also in society and let me tell you booze had crippled me and crushed all of my 5+senses....thank god for the 12 step program of AA, I'm back on my feet today...8 years comeing up 4-11-99, thank you Bill and Bob....and of course to one of my old sponsors who took me to see this play for the first time a few years ago(xxxxkim)in a tight lil venue and now look!!!
Wow,thanks,
Trish M-C,
Waltham,Newton, MA
Wednesday Feb 14 2007
I have 90 days in the program this time. I have been in the program off and on for three years. I finally got what IT is all about. Bill and Bob have found the only successful way to recover from this terrible disease. We never recover we just don't drink. One is TOOOOOOOOOOO many and a thousand is not enough, for those who don't know this is a very true statement. I am going to make a special trip to New York to see the play. Thank you.
A friend of Bill's,
Peggy G
Friday Nov 17 2006
My brother Drew (my elder by 13 years) is in recovery for 25 years - he was given his first drink at 6 by my Grandmother and began drinking heavily at 15. After my parents stopped paying for his schooling (college), he decided to enter rehab. On the day he was to leave for rehab, my mom refused to drive him (after having promised to do so). He called the foundation and they picked him up. After getting out of rehab, he finished paying for his college degree by tending bar - and never once touching a drink while doing so.
Recently, I had a traumatic turn in my life, and when I became depressed, bankrupt and suicidal, he opened his home and paid for my rehab program (not from chemical dependency, but to recover from the crazy home life associated with alcoholism).
I now live in NYC, and am now feeling able to return to my first love, the career I endeavored in for 10 years. Acting.
Drew sent me the link to your show and is excited to bring a group from Pennsylvania to see it. I am excited because he hates NYC so I don't get to see him in my hometown that often. I am further excited that it opens on March 5 - which is my birthday.
This brother, Drew, was in a Junior High performance the night I was born, and I am enjoying the fact that the brother I am so close to was doing what I love the night I was born.
Blessings,
Dori
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