This has been a rough year with an injury to my leg and then an infection that destroyed my right knee altogether leaving me permanently disabled but I have not hit the bottle! Last December I ended up with compartment syndrome in my right leg that required a double fasciotomy and 3 weeks of hospitalization. A few weeks after that I went into sepsis and spent another month in the hospital with two surgeries on my right knee that removed tons and tons of tissue. My right foot does not work due to nerve damage from the compartment syndrome/surgery now as well. The knee is end stage now, just bone on bone. I need a full replacement but I am not a candidate for almost 5 years now because of the infection that I had there, they are not willing to risk having the knee replacement becoming infected. It's fucked. I cannot work and was denied disability on the first try and struggling hard... sooooo fucked. Anyway though, I did not drink. I have been waiting for this goal!

On July 8th of last year I stopped drinking 1.75L of gutter vodka daily, a habit that had been going on for two years at that point with many years of 750ml of whiskey a day before that.

IWNDWYT!