Thank you. Dad's "recovery" to me is still very much a thing in progress - and I'm really not ready to believe that his do-it-yourself method will work. Everything I have read so far says it won't. Though, yes, he has been sober (he says) since June.
I don't live nearby and don't intend to be his caregiver. I knew very little of what was going on because he is non-communicative. Though I am listed in his "living will" documents as the one in charge (of three daughters), I won't find out anything until it's an emergency.
I never had the opportunity to speak to his doctors or anyone associated with the rehab because once he was cleaned up and on medication in the hospital he was coherent and making adult decisions (hence there was no reason to bring me in). So - he only told me what was absolutely necessary for me to know.
I fear that once the support of the girlfriend is absent (what if she has to travel again for three weeks like last spring?), things may go downhill fast.