This last week, I had another friend die from alcoholic liver disease. She had been struggling for years with her addiction. Ten years ago, she was put on the list for a liver transplant after being sober for 18 months, but eventually, she relapsed. I have now had five friends who lost their lives to the bottle, and in every case, it’s a sad story of lost jobs, divorce, and in one case, living on the street. The look on their faces in the last few years is a real heartbreaker.
Also, last week, another friend told me he’d had a procedure called portocaval shunting, where they bypass the liver and send blood straight back to the heart in an effort to relieve portal hypertension caused by scare tissue blockages in the liver. Then he said they put him on the waiting list for a liver transplant.
In every case, my deceased friends left behind people who loved them, family and friends, children and grandchildren. We’re not playing games here. You will die young if you don’t take your alcoholism seriously, a long, drawn-out, tragic, painful death. And you will hurt the people who love you the most. I wish you success and a long, happy, healthy life.
The threat of dying never scared me when I was drinking and drugging. It was the fear that I wouldn’t die that lead me to sobriety. Death would have been easy. Living in full blown addiction was impossible.
I’m so sorry for your loss
Thank you for sharing this. I took a screenshot of it because it’s an important reminder of what awaits us if we choose to go back. hugs
Having had the ultimate wake-up call just under two years ago, I can say with certainty that it’s been enough motivation until now.
Will it be enough motivation from here on out? I am keen to find out but am anything but complacent, that’s why putting in the work every single day counts.
I never thought i would get clean from the bottle that was the hardest one for me the only time i did not have one in my hand it was just t9 grab the next oe really. The drugs were more a fad thing i could easily quit them snd just picked up for fun times roll ! But acouple months ago i got woken up by a phone call it was about someone i would aways hang out with .So the Phone call went He’s In ALOT OF TROUBLE! i said 1 its late and i enjoy my sleep now and im sorry ill never help him being he did not want help or ever try . Well He was heavily intoxicated 3rd Dui charge ,Hit and Run Charge, Dui Manslaughter And several other charges Which Is gonnaland him a minimum 30 years in The Great Commonwealth of Virginia. And when i found the article online i actually saved it on my phone thinking it could of easily been my path if i kept going down it . They say its 3 place’s addiction takes us on well i knew it would been death or prison ! !
