A Guy I use to know
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A Guy I use to know
A guy I use to see around at parties ,cookouts alot of the same friends on FB ect passed away Friday from Liver/kidney failure . I hadn't seen him in ten years or so .but I remember Tho I am /was more of a binge drinker I can remember him always having a case or two of beer on him @ all times. He had just turned 40 so sad and surreal ,And quit scary.
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I just found out one of the clerks at the local convenience store where I used to buy my beer, was found dead in his apartment, after he didn't show up to work.
His wife and children were out of town at the time visiting family.
He died of complications due to alcohol.
He was only 36.
During my time in the AA rooms there were a couple of dozen that went back out and died. Some in horrific and avoidable ways and directly related to drinking.
It is very sad when I find out, someone I knew died, from the alcohol addiction.
I'm sorry about your friend/acquaintance.
His wife and children were out of town at the time visiting family.
He died of complications due to alcohol.
He was only 36.
During my time in the AA rooms there were a couple of dozen that went back out and died. Some in horrific and avoidable ways and directly related to drinking.
It is very sad when I find out, someone I knew died, from the alcohol addiction.
I'm sorry about your friend/acquaintance.
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I'm sorry to hear about your friend.
There's a guy in my neighborhood (neighbor B) who another neighbor (neighbor A) introduced me to. Neighbor B had gotten a DUI. I was still taking my DUI classes at the time. It was summer. Neighbor B was wearing shorts and flip flops. I was trying to impress on him not to go to DUI class in any way recuperating from alcohol. He had a class the next day and smiled and said, "oh I was just going to get a pint" (of liquor). He looked fine and seemed well adjusted, sociable and upbeat.
The next time I saw Neighbor A, he said he hadn't seen Neighbor B for a while and went by his house. Neighbor B's dog was freaking out. He had been dead for days and his body was decaying.
He had fallen and hit his head on the fireplace and that was the end of his short life. Was it a brain hemorrhage, alcohol poisoning or a combination of both? I don't know, but his dog outlived him, and that's not the way it's supposed to work.
Outward appearances can be deceptive. This guy looked to be in perfect health to me, but neighbor A told me that his tolerance was such that what he drank would put most folks out of commission in short order.
I try to remember what it felt like in the days when I would buy a six pack of Budweiser and still have some left over the next day, but it's been so long, that seems like a different person from a past that I have about as much connection with as my pre-school days. Yeah, I remember it, but it's purely academic. Not like remembering something that happened to me 5 or 10 years ago where I can recall the way it felt and sense a continuity of personality between then and now.
There's a guy in my neighborhood (neighbor B) who another neighbor (neighbor A) introduced me to. Neighbor B had gotten a DUI. I was still taking my DUI classes at the time. It was summer. Neighbor B was wearing shorts and flip flops. I was trying to impress on him not to go to DUI class in any way recuperating from alcohol. He had a class the next day and smiled and said, "oh I was just going to get a pint" (of liquor). He looked fine and seemed well adjusted, sociable and upbeat.
The next time I saw Neighbor A, he said he hadn't seen Neighbor B for a while and went by his house. Neighbor B's dog was freaking out. He had been dead for days and his body was decaying.
He had fallen and hit his head on the fireplace and that was the end of his short life. Was it a brain hemorrhage, alcohol poisoning or a combination of both? I don't know, but his dog outlived him, and that's not the way it's supposed to work.
Outward appearances can be deceptive. This guy looked to be in perfect health to me, but neighbor A told me that his tolerance was such that what he drank would put most folks out of commission in short order.
I try to remember what it felt like in the days when I would buy a six pack of Budweiser and still have some left over the next day, but it's been so long, that seems like a different person from a past that I have about as much connection with as my pre-school days. Yeah, I remember it, but it's purely academic. Not like remembering something that happened to me 5 or 10 years ago where I can recall the way it felt and sense a continuity of personality between then and now.
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All those deaths, all those loved ones left behind wondering what they could have done differently (the answer is usually "nothing").
Nobody thinks it will happen to him/her. This is a deadly disease.
Nobody thinks it will happen to him/her. This is a deadly disease.
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