"Hello, my name is 'Dane' and I am a compulsive gambler." With those words at my first GA meeting, I became free. It took me almost a month to screw up the courage to go to a meeting. That month, more than my days of gambling, was excrutiating, because before I admitted to myself I had a problem, nothing was excrutiating...It was just "blah". I avoided life.....Conversations with my wife, co-workers, anyone for that matter...Nothing mattered but the gambling, the urge to get money to gamble with, the next scheme to get back that lost money, because someday I was going to hit it big. Never happened.

My journey will be a good one. I feel that it will be, because I am slowly climbing out of the pit that I was in for many, many years. The blinders are off of my eyes and I see life.......I now see life A Day At A Time.