I'm still not doing very well. I keep coming back and re-reading all of your responses to me here. I'm just in shock that she's gone. I can't fathom how you would keep drinking when you have been told repeatedly that it's going to kill you. It was about 4 months between her first diagnosis of stage 2 cirrhosis and her death. It was so senseless. During the last 4 months she basically didn't answer my phone calls and would never return the messages I left for her, because she was too busy drinking herself to death and told her friends she didn't want to hear me bug her to go to rehab. And now I'm left without a Mom.