Been a while but everythings been cruising normally for me. Took an AA buddy to detox about a month ago. He had been out there for 2 months drinking and snorting heroin and blew through whatever money he had. He finally called me to give him a lift to a meeting. We were at the meeting and was not doing well (hadn't drank/drugged in about 12 hours). Me and another AA friend took him to the detox hospital where he spent 5 days detoxing. He's been clean and accompanying me to meetings every night since.
Had a little "situation" about 2 weeks ago. We had a business meeting and people brought up that they had been smelling alcohol around the meeting room. Now I have no sense of smell so I didn't "smell" the problem. Besides, the 3rd tradition says the only requirement for membership is the DESIRE to stop drinking. It says nothing about having stopped drinking when you come in.
Anyway, my sponser asks me if I had been drinking, and I said no as I know I have not drank since sometime at the begining of October (I may not have reported that here, too lazy to look back). It was only a pint for a few hours one day but a drink is a drink.
So I ask him if everyone thinks it's me who smells like alcohol and he says yes. So I'm like WTF???? I get breathalized just about every time I come home from anywhere and never register even a 0.01 on the thing. So he asks what kind of mouthwash I use and I say Scope, that I even have a bottle in my car as my breath usually stinks (being a smoker) and take a swig before I go anywhere. Turns out Scope has alcohol in it (at least the one I had in my car did). I knew the brown listerene had alcohol in it (that's why I liked it
) but who knew the regular Scope did too.
So no more Scope for me. Instead I chew Dentyne Ice blue gum. Who would have thought??
Guess I have to check labels now-a-days.
But it's not like it was a trigger to go drink a pint/quart/gallon. Just the smell alerted me to it.
Thanks to my fellow AA buddies,.
