Sonia Kahlon

And my brother, too, had been...

actually probably had gotten like a step or two past me with his drinking.

Uh, didn't have the shakes either.

So genetically, I don't know.

They're coming out with a lot of interesting thing about South Asians genetically right now.

So maybe that's one of them.

So, um, yeah, I just, I went home that night and I, after lunch with my friend and I didn't drink and I would think it was the first time I hadn't, I had gone a day without drinking in maybe a decade or

And I woke up the next morning and like, all right, we're doing it, doing it, doing one more, let's do one more day.

And it was the first, I remember very clearly, Mondays were always the day I would wake up and say, I'm not gonna drink today.

And then I would drive by the liquor store on the way home and pick up alcohol.

And when I got through that Monday, I thought, okay, I got something here.

I got something, I got two days.

And that was, I can't even tell you what it felt like two days was.

And so that's whenever anyone tells me they've gone a day, I'm like, you did the hardest part.

And so I did two days and then I just strung together, I white knuckled for a while and I strung together some days and I strung together some sobriety and then I...

I finally told my brother after a few weeks.

And of course, he wanted me to go to AA.

And I said, no, it's not for me.

What if there's what if my patients are at the meetings?

I had eight offices right in and around Philly.