Great story Rob.
It's been 16 years for me. I was hallucinating from DT's while I watched the Bush-Dukakis election returns.
I knew from that time that I was a former alcoholic. I never considered myself to be recovering. I was recovered from the beginning.
I realized the source of my confidence when I was preaching a church service last summer and we sang the hymn that quotes from II Timothy 1:12: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
Congrats and stay strong !