IO Storm

Judy...

Thank you for this post. I am sorry for what you and your family are going

through now. You all have my prayers. My drinking career began at the age

of 34. After experimenting with hard liquor and wines..I stayed with

light beer. I called it "elixir of the gods"..how stupid. I was diagnosed

with cirhhosis in 1997 after just 5 years. But God healed mine when I

stopped. I did have a brief relapse in 2005, struggled on and off..until

I got sober in 2006. I am so fortunate to have a clean liver today.

To be alive. Breathing. I lost a young friend in 2001 to cirrhosis....

I hate this disease. Thanks again for your post.

And many congrats on 3 years of clean and sober time.

Hugs.

IO Storm

This triggered a memory..

I lay in bed for weeks, I had a an ABF who enabled me..and bought it after

the diagnosis but when he got worried and cut my supply, I would get out

of bed when he left and store it..drink it warm from under the bed.

Dear God. And throw it up. Until the mercy of God took that guy

away I went back to AA.

So, I will pray for Tom.

Dear God..

Please take care of Tom, I know how this thing got it's grip on me.

Comfort him , give him peace and guide his caretakers...

Keep your hand on his wife and daughters. Stay close to all of

them.

Thy will be done.

Thank You very much.

serenityqueen

Thanks so much to everyone for sharing their thoughts and own personal losses and experiences.

My cousin, who's real name is Tony, passed away Friday morning, August 22. His wife was with him at the time. His Parents, Daughters, Brothers and Sister had all spent a good part of the day with him on Thursday. The Nurses at Hospice were exceptional people, so kind, comforting and understanding of the Families pain as well as Tony's.

Please refer to my other thread in this forum, "My Cousin Passed Away Today"

Another Family Member lost his life yesterday as well due to this disease.

I haven't been around either of these men for many, many years. I'm not posting their deaths as a reach out for sympathy. It may sound cold and it's not meant that way, I just wasn't close at all to either of them due to my disease, divorces and other circumstances.

I am posting this and sharing this in hopes that if their deaths and the pain and the why's? that their families they left behind are feeling can be known. I hope that maybe, just maybe, by sharing this it may result in even one person thinking about what this disease truly promises us . . . death.

It's never too late for anyone who is able to read this.

But it is for my Sister Linda, my Cousin Tony and another Cousin's Son Scooter.

IO Storm

Sorry for your losses SQ...

This was such a trigger for me...that boyfriend's name was Tom.

it just brought up memories..but that is good..I should never forget!!

I feel for the wife and children left behind..they most likely still do not

understand it all. Those of us here need to take the best care of ourselves

we can...stay off the pity pot and work our tails off to maintain recovery.

Thank you for your posts...

Hugs