Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Unquenchable Thirst Cured!
All I had to do was acquire a taste for ginger ale especially, and nestea: just like I was told I had to acquire a taste for beer at 12yo and did. I tried cola for many years: that and water. Twice I drank so much water I had to be hospitalized for hyponaetremic seizures and almost died: no beers those times. I was on a strict water diet forever trying to stop drinking. In the last 10 months, I discovered ginger ale and nestea, but first it was ginger ale. A refill double gulp of soda at 7-11 is 1.06$. I drink 3 or 4 of the ginger ale and/or nestea everyday. There was nothing doctors/AA and/or church/prayer could do for my thirst (even with five meetings in one day at one point). I quenched my thirst with beer for 25 years mixed with times when I drank only cola and/or water. But, cola gives the runs and I would be just as sick on that as I was on the beer. Since Nov. 3, 2010, the first six months were spent going to AA every day. At the beginning, I thought outside the box and let myself try ginger ale in a quest to slake my thirst. "Outside the box" because ginger ale is not much to think about: "it doesn't do anything to you," I thought. I tried it and how it happened I don't know, but I have acquired a taste for ginger ale and then I tried nestea, not without trying other soft drinks (not cola). I have acquired a taste for ginger ale and nestea, neither of which cause physical, mental or spiritual malady as does alcohol/beer/cola/water in amounts I was drinking. I no longer thirst for and I no longer crave beer due to acquiring a taste for ginger ale and nestea. Thirsting for and craving ginger ale and a new life motto that "it is better to look like an asshole than to be one" will keep me sober, I think. Drinking Canada dry: I can never be far away from a 7-11, but I don't go anywhere anyway.
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Glad you're chugging Ginger Ale than Miller High Life!!! Way to go Jimmy!
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