Another setback

I was doing well at this house, speaking before large gatherings at AA or NA meetings, telling my story of survival. I spent a good year at the house and this might have continued in a positive vein, except for what happened to me at my job at the VA workshop. I was lifting a heavy box of letters to be -0processed and felt a twinge in my neck that was painful. I injured a disk in my neck and after many tests including a MRI, it was determined, I would need surgery to correct the disk. I had the surgery and it was very successful. I was prescribed pain medication. Even though I needed this medicatio0pn to help in my recovery from the surgery, this was the worst treatment I could have got, not that there was anything better at the time. I was now taking narcotics again. This led to an old behavior I was very familiar with. When the pills I was using were no longer available to me, I looked for other avenues to pursue pain relief or perhaps I just wanted to stay high. Staying high was my goal after almost two years of being straight. Well I decided I could no longer stay in this house having been discovered getting high and asked to leave. I went to a friends house for awhile and then got an idea involving going to the Philippines. I had been corresponding with a young girl who was introduced to me by a line worker at the Vets workshop. I had made phones calls and wrote letters to this girl for over a year. I was on my way to the Philippines.