Alcohol

[billybunter]

Originally Posted by stardust2003

George Best said that he gave up drink for a whole year...
I wonder ... did he ? we only have his word for it!

He did. Otherwise he would not have had a liver transplant. You must be booze free for at least 6 months.

[exfarmer]

Originally Posted by stardust2003

I need that alcohol buzz every day and Id miss it if it was nt there.
( Im only talking one can of 4 % beer plus maybe a small glass of cider )

You say you need that buzz every day, how are you when you don't get it?
That one line in your post makes it look as though addiction is already starting to grab hold of you.
a few years ago a very good friend of my family lost his battle with the booze.
He was my dads best mate they were born nieghbouring houses, he was like an uncle to me but over the years i watched as the booze took hold of him.
It got to a point where you never saw him sober, you would visit and he would always have an open can within reach of where he was sitting.
It was heartbreaking to see this wonderful person, who i had a lot of respect and admiration for die a slow death.
He never admitted he had a problem until just before the end. His body just shut down, his liver and other organs shot to bits. In and out of hospital until one day the doctors said thats it we can't do any more and a few weeks later that was it, he died.
When i saw what he went through with alcohol and saw the changes in him, physically and mentally, i swore i would never abuse alcohol.
I do drink, i do get drunk from time to time but i will never drink to excess on a regular basis. It's quite rare for me to drink alcohol more than once in two or three weeks.
One thing that Peter succeeded in doing was to show me and my brothers the dangers. I can't think of how to put it but it installed something in my brain to stop me going overboard.
I really miss uncle Peter and think of him regularly. Tragic that it had to end the way it did.

[stardust2003]

QUOTE
George Best did. Otherwise he would not have had a liver transplant.
You must be booze free for at least 6 months.
END QUOTE


Well he's got more will power than me !
dont think I could do a week !

.

[billybunter]

Originally Posted by stardust2003

QUOTE
George Best did. Otherwise he would not have had a liver transplant.
You must be booze free for at least 6 months.
END QUOTE


Well he's got more will power than me !
dont think I could do a week !

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Then, no offence intended. You have a drink problem. Only you can sort it out. With support from docs of course.

[teatsfan]

Originally Posted by exfarmer

He never admitted he had a problem until just before the end.

Originally Posted by billybunter

You have a drink problem. Only you can sort it out. With support from docs of course.

Though I think Stardust is partly joking, admitting to having a problem with alcohol isn't easy, it's so widely used and accepted in society. It's not like one is an outcast, like junkies are for example. Many just take it very light heartedly.

Exfarmer's post is interesting, saying the fate of his uncle was a warning to him. Hmm my father was an alcoholic, didn't stop me though. Sometimes it's just life circumstances.

[billybunter]

My aunt and my mum died of alcoholism. I nursed my mum through it on my own, but I was still drinking like mad. It was a very slow and painful death. All her organs just packed up. Even that didn't stop me. I thought I was invincible. Until I ended up in hospital.

[otokonomidori]

Originally Posted by stardust2003

George Best said that he gave up drink for a whole year...
I wonder ... did he ? we only have his word for it!

!

Something I've always been puzzled about is why it took about forty years for George's original much abused liver to come out with it's hands up yet the new one he got from the NHS was completely buggered in just three years. He can't have upped his booze intake THAT much

So did the liver doctors, knowing that he'd take it straight down to the pub, give him a liver that already had a lot of miles on the clock?

[billybunter]

Originally Posted by fleetwood77

Something I've always been puzzled about is why it took about forty years for George's original much abused liver to come out with it's hands up yet the new one he got from the NHS was completely buggered in just three years. He can't have upped his booze intake THAT much

So did the liver doctors, knowing that he'd take it straight down to the pub, give him a liver that already had a lot of miles on the clock?

A new liver is weak. And Besties boozing wrecked it sadly.

[otokonomidori]

I had a job when I was 20 driving a window cleaner to jobs - he was an alcoholic and he'd been banned from driving.

I realise now he had end stage liver disease - we'd be going to a job and he'd be puking blood into the window cleaning bucket. The job lasted six months before he inevitably snuffed it. He was 40 and looked 75.

I was already fairly uninterested in drink - having grown up in a teetotal household I'd been brainwashed that it was the road to ruin.

Watching the window cleaner slowly dying before my eyes confirmed this already ingrained belief.

I wish they'd also brainwashed me about cigarettes.

[stardust2003]

Dont cry for Georgie, he had a fabulous life
(he dated Susan George at one point ! )
he lived about ten lives in one and spent his way
through millions of dosh