My brother's 20 year battle with alcoholism ended yesterday with a ruptured aorta due to advanced corrhosis. When he was hospitalized for a month in 2011, you kind folks were a ray of much needed...
You people are total gems! Thank you for your thoughts and insights. What a terrible disease we are all suffering from. I am picking my battles. Saying my peace. Then just hoping for some...
My brother was released from the hospital yesterday. My mother took him home . . . again. She had a few days of clarity during his one-month hospitalization, but when it came down to it, she couldn't...
Thanks Debbie. Really. It's pretty hard having some sense, huh?...
Aint that the truth. It has to get really, really, really awful first. People who step in and scoop up because they fear the awful just perpetuate it. Just back off. Cut the cord. Otherwise you'll...
Dear Cable - Wow! That sounds awful! Alcoholics just lose the ability to care. They take and take and take. It's so crazy! It's hard not to hate them for it, honestly. But there are two people...
I know that I really can't even imagine how hard it is for her to do this. She feels like she is abandoning him, but knows intellectually that she is helping him. What a complicated disease. Thanks...
Thank you all for your insights! I am so sorry that each of you has a reason to even find yourself in this forum. It is a terrible disease. And I am sorry for your losses and and celebrating the...
Thanks so much, Pink! Do you really tough-love a nearly dying man? (He might not actually be dying - I can't find my crystal ball - but it does seem like a possibility.) This is all so sad....
It must be awful to watch your husband continuing to drink. I'm momentarily in this space where I can at least entertain my brother quitting. I know it's not realistic, but I'm grateful that this...
My 38 year old brother has been a raging alcoholic for about 20 years. I am the only one in my family that saw it at all, and have been totally demonized each time I try to broach the subject. I told...