Urgent Advice Needed
My mother, 78, alcoholic has what I call, hit the bottom.
She lives alone. Three days ago she fell over, drunk and broke her shoulder in three places and her wrist.
She was so drunk, she didn't call an ambulance until 6 hours later, she also called my sister at that time.
She had also lost control of her bowels, sometime after this happened.
So, she is taken to hospital. The next day they set her wrist. She still needs surgery on the shoulder next week, when the inflammation has gone down.
After 48 hours she has left the hospital. Even though my sisters and I tried to advise the hospital she lives alone and cannot look after herself, they legally could not do anything.
We knew she wanted to get home to the booze.
My sister cleared all the alcohol out the house, even her secret stash she had in her car. She was devastated when my sister told her.
She has now come up with new ways to obtain alcohol. She is angry at us for trying to help her and we all just feel so helpless now.
Is there anything anyone can suggest, that we can do, to stop this destruction? We love her, but we can see she will kill herself with a fall or something, if we don't do something???