“Vodka with ice please” These words were a frequent verse my grandmother yelled to the bartender. Five, Six, Seven times a night until the man refused to sell her another drink. The bar was my grandmother’s second home. This is where she felt at ease, with vodka in her right hand and a chaser in her left. Every sip she swallowed cracked a smile on her face. All the worries were washed away from the alcohol taking control of her body. It was a problem and it was affecting the relationship with her friends and family. My grandmother had 4 boys that were not giving a motherly figure. She was nowhere around to supply food on the table or tuck them into bed. My dad says, “I would come home from school and she would be passed out on the couch. I don’t remember havening a typical mom to son conversation. It’s very sad to put into words”. All her focus was on getting drunk at the bar day after day. The bar was where she felt she belonged. My grandmother suffered with a severe case of alcoholism and the willingness to overcome her struggles helped her become the loving and passionate grandmother she is today. One Friday night at the age of 14, my grandmother had her first taste of alcohol. She was used to the atmosphere of alcohol due to the fact she had two alcoholic parents.
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40 years ago she had the most powerful experience of her life, her first day of sobriety. I asked her, if you could do one thing differently what would have done? She replied, “not regret the past nor wish to shut the door, I have made my mistakes, I have grown through them, pain being the touchdown to growth, I needed to change the women that I have brought in to sobriety, that I have change, I’ve grown spiritually”. My grandmother overcame her alcoholism with the willingness to get a sponsor use the 12the steps of recovery in alcoholic anonymous and grow spiritually. She says “ I am now proud to say I’m a sponsor today for children who are trying to get
40 years ago she had the most powerful experience of her life, her first day of sobriety. I asked her, if you could do one thing differently what would have done? She replied, “not regret the past nor wish to shut the door, I have made my mistakes, I have grown through them, pain being the touchdown to growth, I needed to change the women that I have brought in to sobriety, that I have change, I’ve grown spiritually”. My grandmother overcame her alcoholism with the willingness to get a sponsor use the 12the steps of recovery in alcoholic anonymous and grow spiritually. She says “ I am now proud to say I’m a sponsor today for children who are trying to get