IT KILLED MY DAD (Alcoholism in General)

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Product:	Alcoholism in General
Date:	14/10/01 (6 review reads)
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I am the same as anyone else and like a good drink in moderation but I have seen have bad alcohol can be and how many people it can affect when one person gets addicted.

My dad was a fantastic bloke he was not only a great dad but a very good friend as well he had loads of friends and after a few years in prison for Armed robbery he found a new wife after my mum left him.

But after a few years maybe because I was older but I noticed that he was drinking more and more his moods were unpredictable and he could not give me the advice and support I had so much relied on in the past.

He always used to take me and my brother to the park on a saturday and play football with us and was generally quite fit for a man of 47 but more and more he started to bring cans of Tennants Super to the park and at first me and my brother thought that it was quite funny when he used to hide it behing the goalpost and tell us not to hit it but it was starting to show when he wanted to go to the park less and less.

As me and my brother got older we had our own things to do over the weekend so would only go and see him every now and again and I later lived to regret this.

One day I went round there at about 10 in the morning and he was sitting in his chair un shaven and with a can in his hand and kept groaning that his stomach hurt.
We tried to get him to go to the doctors but he was having none of it.

Then the most truamatic thing in my life happened I was at home when the phone rang and my brother told me that dad had been rushed into hospital and he was in a bad way.
I had not seen him for about 3 months as I had a family to look after at this point so I rushed off to south london to the hospital.

When I got there they said that he had left the hospital when nobody was looking.
I rushed to his house and found his partner trying to pick him up.
He had gone home and got more drink and collapsed again.

He
was again taken into hospital and put in the high dependancy ward I told him that he could get better but he was all over the place and did not seem to know who I was.
I left that evening and told him I would come back in the morning.

When I returned the next morning he was not in the ward and I was informed that over night he had been moved to ITU and was in a very bad way.
When I got up there I was horrified to see all the tubes and pipes and needles sticking in him and he was out cold.

The doctor informed me that his Liver had failed and the yellow colour was because of this.
Two days later after lots of tears and hope my brother and me were called in to the Doctor and told we had to make a dicission to turn off the life support and stop all the drugs.

It really was the hardest decision of my life but one that had to be made.
We sat by the bed holding his hands and as the blips on the monitors got smaller and smaller we could feel him slipping away.
Eventually he died there with us at his side and I broke down.

What a waste of life and I felt as though I had lost a part of me and why all because alcohol had taken over his life and destroyed him.
Alcohol can be addictive and really does ruin lives so please if you have a problem seek help before you hurt somebody you love.

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