A Doctor Said She Was in the Chronic Stages and Did Not Have Long – Edie C.
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Edie C. shares at a conference in Flagstaff, Arizona in 2000. She grew up in extreme poverty and violence, finding her mother dead from suicide at age three and a half. Raised by a woman in the chronic stages of alcoholism, she endured abuse and was moved constantly.
She was labeled with a low IQ of 83 and told to find a trade. She had her first drink of whiskey at about age ten from a bottle under a car seat. Her alcoholism progressed through blackouts and cocaine addiction, leading to multiple institutions.
After a doctor told her she was in the chronic stages of alcoholism and did not have long to live, she got on her knees and prayed to Higher Power for the first time. She found fellowship at First Street Fellowship in Modesto, where an old man named Earl slowly drew her out of isolation by asking her to wash cups in the kitchen. Through service work and sponsorship, she gradually overcame her inability to communicate and trust.
She became the first woman industrial inspector for the State of California and later a project manager at UC Davis. She emphasizes that facing fears, doing the deal, and the fourth step inventory made everything possible.
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