Posted on 07/10/2019 7:36:11 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
It all came crashing down one morning in April 2015, when April Lund was 32. The evening before, she had stayed out late drinking, and she woke up alone in her apartment in Bismarck, North Dakota, with no idea of how she got there.
“I blacked out completely,” she told Runner’s World. “That’s when I knew I had to change my life.”
At the time, Lund was overweight and had been struggling with an alcohol addiction for about eight years. She had just moved to Bismarck from St. Louis, Missouri, where she said her social life centered around drinking. While living in Missouri, she would sip on a drink “from when I woke up to when I passed out at night,” she said.
“In St. Louis, everything was drinking,” Lund said. “All of my friends were doing the same thing, and didn’t think anything of it. It was normal.”
She managed to keep the severity of her addiction under wraps, because the drinking didn’t interfere with her work in sales, she explained.
On that particular morning in 2015, however, Lund sat up and realized that the choices she was making were leading her down a dark path. She had recently met her eventual husband, Jeff, who went to the gym regularly and wasn’t a big partier; though he never commented on her actions, she said she could tell he was disappointed in her behavior.
“I didn’t want alcohol to steal one more thing that I loved away from me,” she said.
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That girl would destroy 99.9 of men.
A risk I would gladly accept.
*comfy*
You killed memory brain cells.
You were conscious when you performed the actions, you just do not remember it.
That's the textbook definition of an alcoholic blackout.
Hubba hubba; good-looking woman.
You say “black out”, I call it “time travel”.
On a bet, I trained and finished one marathon. That was it. Never again. I won’t mention my time, but I was 30 years old, in great shape, and today admire her 2:49 at 37 years old. Congrats.
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