Hi, my name is Set and I am an alcoholic.

I came out of a blackout in a church in the middle of an AA meeting, five miles from home, no car, and no memory. I didn't know how old I was, my phone number, where I lived, or even how to read. I was as close to a wet brain as anyone could get. I don't remember much of that meeting except some crazy folks coming up and wanting to hug me. Me ... dirty, stinking of liquor and puke, crying. Some nutty lady took me home and cleaned me up and put me to bed. She tracked down my folks and took me home in a couple of days, once I could hold a cup of coffee in my hands. Where I got sober, they read The Promises after each meeting. I was about six months sober when I heard them for the first time. I mean, really heard them and understood what they were saying. I started crying. I didn't see how I could ever help anyone else. I was sooooo sick! The next day, I went back to that same meeting where I had come out of the blackout. A man shared that he had left a rehab about six months earlier, and had stopped at that meeting before boarding his flight home. He was real shaky and afraid he wouldn't make it ... even drink on the plane, maybe. He saw some lady come in crying and drunk out of her mind. He saw and felt her pain so much that whenever the craving or obsession hit him in the following months he thought of her. God showed me that my experience could help someone, even when I didn't think it could. I have recovered not only from a mental obsession today, but as you can see I have also been restored to the other sanity ... thanks to these rooms, you people, the program of AA, and my God.

Thank you for letting me share.