A very good April
April 2022 | What's On Your Mind? | Our Personal Stories

A very good April

It’s now many years later. I will go out and hide the Easter eggs before anyone else gets up. Finding AA and getting sober was a miracle of my life.

Early one morning in 1988, I made a call to my wife from my office. I was in a blackout and crying, “I can’t live like this anymore.” Pam, who was 30 miles away at our home, knew who to call because she had met the people at my job who had been trying to help me.  They all quickly mobilized what I called the “AA Army” and eventually located a bed for me in a rehab in Canaan, Connecticut.

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