Welcome to the Sober Friends podcast.

My name is Matt Jay.

My co-host is Steve and we're here to help you out if you are on the path to sobriety, sober curious, or you're already shrung a couple days together like the two of us.

What's going on, Steve?

It's another sober day for us.

Another sober day.

Good morning, Matt.

So I want to talk a little bit about you can have sober days.

You can be sober and still have bad days.

I think I talked last week.

I had surgery.

And I had my surgery. It went surgery. And I had my surgery.

It went fine.

And I have to tell you I have had anxiety over it.

I've just, I've had anxiety because I'm not as active as I'm used to.

I can't go to the gym until I have the stitches out because they don't want my hand to get all sweaty and infected. So I don't have my

outlets. I already have anxiety about my weight to begin with. So all of this stuff comes in.

But I'm still sober. As a matter of fact, they gave me Vicodin for the pain. And I used

Vicodin the first day. I think it used it once or twice the

second day. And that's it. I just, it was very easy to put aside. Which I was surprised by. I'm

like, okay, I'm done. We're going over to Tylenol now. I'm good, which felt like such a victory of like, all right, this is not, I'm using something as it is prescribed. I need to keep the pain down. And once that happened, it's time to move on. And that was a great feeling. But it's just been, eh. And I know it's not forever move on and that was a great feeling but it's just been and i know it's not forever

but i'm still sober i'm not drinking and i'm not thinking of a drink yeah that's the key it's um

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