You find out who Your friends are...

What a song by Tracy Lawrence.  On Nov. 9, 2010, I find out how much my family loves me.  Wasn't too happy to start with.  Listen....

My sister takes me home from the hospital.  I decide not to stay overnight with my wife.  Traffic is crazy and it takes going the backway home to even get there.  I remember on the way home, telling my sister that if anything was to happen to me and my wife, that I wanted her to take care of our little dog.  Little did I know that about an hour later she would be leaving my house with me dog.  I was going to detox.
When my sister got to my house we talked a little and I sent her on the way, with a full bottle of vodka and all of our Nyquil..  Getting rid of everything that had alcohol in it.  Well, almost.

After my sister left, I started to get ready for bed.  I remember standing in the hall and looking outside.  All of a sudden 6 vehicles pull in my driveway.  It is dark and I can't tell who is coming to my house.  If you watch the video, the cars are going in line to help Tracy.   Anyway, I open the front door and hollar out, "Who is here".  I don't think I got much of an answer, I just saw, my daughter, my brother with his wife, both of my sisters and my brother-in-law come into my house single file.
Remember my daughter talking about doing it the hard way, well, intervention is not easy.  Those 6 people started in on me.  They were talking about getting me some help with my alcohol consumption.  One of their first questions was whether or not I gave my sister all of the alcohol.  Well there was that bottle that was about 3/4's empty.  I told them that I didn't want my sister to get stopped with an open container.  I thought that was a good answer.  You know, it didn't impress them at all or stop them from insisting that I go to detox.  Never been to detox and what did I need detox for, I hadn't had a drink in 2 days.  Go figure.
These are people that I love and I know that they love me.  I tried but didn't put up much of a fight.  If you have an intervention with people that really care, just pack your bags.  I remember my brother driving me away and I ask where I was going.  Shoal Creek.  Oh boy.. 
Next, I head to Detox.  Great place, oh yea..