Originally Posted by
Tuffgirl 
Wow - this scares me. 37? Only 37? It can happen that early? I had no idea. I thought that was a progressive disease that afflicted much older drinkers (like you said, 20 years from now).
My paternal grandparents were both severe alcoholics, and dead before I was ever born.
My dad lost both of them within a year of each other while he was still in high school, leaving him to care for two younger brothers.
His dad was in his 40's, and died in a fire at the club that he owned.
His mother died a year later at age 42. The cause of death was listed as a heart attack, but she already had advanced cirrhosis at that age.