This is awful. Prayers to her family. 
You’re an amazingly strong person @Englishd to be doing what you’re doing everyday and not picking up. 
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My condolences to her family and friends.
I fully believe this is how my mother died. Yet no doctor ever looked at her liver because no one dared go against my mother’s wishes and mention her alcohol intake. Yet every symptom she had points to liver failure and alcoholism. It sounds like this young woman had all the same things that my mother had (though, you don’t mention her muscular functions…I wonder if she was also struggling to stand and walk like my mother did.)
In some ways I feel like this family got some closure because they all knew WHAT it was that was wrong with her…no one in my family even dared to try and find out. I know they all would not believe me if I voiced my thoughts on this. I’ll never know for sure…but I know.
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My client was effectively bed ridden the last month of her life
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I’m sorry to hear this. It’s a tough way to go
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It is!! For both the one sick and for the ones watching it.
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Thanks for sharing this, it’s a stark reminder.
Sometimes I get this side by side photo going in my head.
1 with a cute couple doing something fun like ziplining and 1 with a grieving widow at a funeral. The caption reads “this could be us”.
Helps me to remember what awaits me if I were to pick back up
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I feel really bad for her family. They had to make the decision to let her die. She was too far gone to make the decision herself
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I know what it’s like to be in her family’s shoes. Gonna be a rough holiday season. Hopefully they’ll deal with the grief better than I did. I will pray for them.
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Just come across these…
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Alcoholism doesn’t fuck around.
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What does the first point mean “don’t let the addict manipulate you by shutting them out”?
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I think it’s a poorly written statement which is trying to say that you should shut the addict out so that they are unable to manipulate you.
I’m not too sure tbh have been pondering that one myself. I’ll see if it clarifies this on the site I got them from.
“shut the addict out so they can’t manipulate you” makes much more sense.
Let me know if you find out 
I think they have just said it wrong and they Newegg that these can be the repercussions of enabling an addict and letting them manipulate you. So you shutting them out woke be a consequence of then manipulating you in to enabling them.
Here some more screen shots though they may just confuse the matter even more 
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Alcohol remains the undefeated champion.
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In Jimmy Breslin’s book “Table Money”, he describes alcohol as a broken down pug, an old fighter with a scarred nose and Vaselined cheeks shuffling into the ring, waving his gloves, and calling on the drinker to step into the ring and mix it up one more time. The drunk in the story cannot turn down the challenge and is defeated every single time.
The only way to not lose is to surrender, to not enter the fray.
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Hey there pants I totally agree with you prison,death or recovery ,I’ve done 2 out of 3 I’ve done prison I’ve died twice and have been brought back again.now it’s time for soberity,28 days today .xx I’m not going back it scares me alittle tbh as I don’t know if I’d make it out again xx
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Hey I’ve been brought back twice aswell, once from snorting fentanyl and one just from going over, it’s taken a long time to be happy that they got to me in time.
Yes sadly institutions or death is the most common outcome for most of people like us but I see that as all the more reason to flourish in s life of sobriety. 
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