500 Days of Sobriety

And more than a thousand wonderful changes to go with it.

Danielle Emrey
11 min readFeb 3, 2021
Photo by Anatol Lem on Unsplash

It’s still hard for me to believe, but on September 22, 2019, exactly 500 days ago, I woke up after a near restless sleep: head pounding, sweating bullets and sick as a dog. The night before, I had gluttonously sucked back two bottles of wine.

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Danielle Emrey

English Lit Nerd. Reader. Writer. Ex-Lush. Oxford Comma Enthusiast.