"When Times Get Tough"

It has been a week now since my surgery on my knee for a torn miniscus. Recovery isn't going like I anticipated. There aren't any problems other than I am impatient. Typical Alcoholic thinking . . . I thought I'd be better than I am. How bad could arthroscopic surgery be? Three little 1/2" incisions? I am trying to work my program but must admit I am struggling. I have a group of my AA women friends coming to the house tomorrow for a meeting. I am in a lot of pain but am using my pain medication sparingly. Trying to do it with Tylenol rather than the Percoset that was prescribed. I never had been addicted to prescription drugs and don't want to start now. I keep telling myself that this too shall pass. I am trying to work the 1st step with this for I am definitely am "powerless". Being laid up is not good for this Alcoholic. Gives me too much time to think. It is too easy for me to slip into "stinking thinking". I need to turn this all over to the God of my understanding and let him work things out. Well, thanks alot and I am going to get back to taking it "one day at a time." Maybe 5 minutes at a time.