Hi all - Frances here. Been around for so so long and still haven't been able to stop drinking. Jane27 a huge congratulations to you on 10 years sober! Amazing!
I am not doing too badly, but my brother has gone into a deep hole with his drinking and I'm terrified. He is 62 and lives alone and since early December he has been drinking so much - he lost his job and he is losing track of days - he missed our traditional Christmas Eve with the family and I picked him up and brought him to my house on Christmas for dinner. This was before I realized just how bad things were and I hadn't realized what was happening and he drank so much so quickly that within probably an hour he had passed out. I thought OK this is it, he'll be devastated that this happened and he'll stop. When I took him back home he told me he didn't have any alcohol in the house and I thought that meant he wouldn't get any more. Of course I was wrong. We have a regular Wednesday commitment that he's been missing. He actually did go last week but he was a complete mess and wound up vomiting. I've talked to him about how worried I am but it doesn't seem to matter. I don't know what to do - I guess I'll go to Alanon to see if that helps me. I can't see how he can live like this and I'm afraid he's going to die. Thank you for giving me a place to come and vent about this.
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