Well got nailed with a REALLY bad flu bug on tuesday that has had me mostly bed ridden. A couple times, I took some NAL and attempted put down a drink or two to just keep the extinction mechanisms work, but it wasn't happened. As such, I'm likely to go most of the week, if not all of it, without so much as a couple units.

On the one hand, it's nice to just not care at all about alcohol -- probably a combination of me being ill and the level of extinction I am at. In the past, I'd have drank sick or not. In fact, getting a healthy buzz can makes ones life more bearable when your head is pounding.

However on the other hand, this really isn't progress. Guess I'm just having a "By-Week"

Q

Sorry about your flu, Q. It's interesting about the lack of interest in alcohol while you're ill this time. I have always been like that. My wife would always know I was "really" sick if I stopped drinking completely (before I started to make the attempt at sobriety a few years ago). So it sounds like you are venturing toward normalcy and have made progress. Look at it as a positive, even though it does defer your SM therapy a week or so.

Hope you feel well soon!

Bob

Hey Q - sorry to hear you are sick. That sucks.

I'm not sure I understood your message entirely, but are you worried because you feel you have not had any chance for extinction because of the sickness or you just feel like crap? If it's the first, you've been at this long enough to take a break without losing ground. If it's the second, hope you recover soon!

Take care,