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Will my Alcoholic fafther die?

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  1. amrit_rulz
    Member

    Truth: yes
    why?: most likely liver failure
    comforting answer: Your dad loves you.

    Posted 2 years ago #

  2. tobi_kirby
    Member

    Hey , with out trying to tell you all the downers in my life - I just need to ask something briefly to get a genuine answer.

    Basically, my dad is very physiologically disturbed. He does not talk to me about his child-hood, but my mother has told me a few short stories and he had to deal with far more than an average child such as me is expected. I rely on my dad hugely in life (not wealth).

    Up to 12, I cannot imagine my dad sober. He was always an Alcoholic, but goes worse as time went on. (Used to start drinking around 12 in day, and as I got earlier started as soon as he woke.) When I was 10, he went away for 31 days to the Priory which was a private detox centre payed for by his work. He came of Alcohol for about 15 days and then started again. (I always knew he would, there was no sincerity to it.)

    A year later he had a huge breakdown. He got caught drink driving, lost his job as an electrician, and 3 year ban from driving. he started drinking huge and got in to alot of debt which my mum and him are still paying off. He was now told he had 24 months to live if he could not stop.

    This was very upsetting for me, as he was choosing the alcohol over myself and my brother and my mother. He then went into an NhS funded detox and he completed the Program successfully and came of Alcohol for 2-3 years.

    The confusing thing is this: he works night-shifts, one week on - one week off, and during the week-on doesn't drink at all, however on the week off he drink all the time. I don't believe he is dependent on it still, even sadder - he has nothing else to do and it helps him sleep easy.

    Will this Alcohol still kill him? I want an honest answer because it will break my heart to see him go, but I must know the truth. I cannot live without him, and don't know weather I could deal with the grief of seeing him leave and the thought of never seeing him again.
    Just read over what I wrote and I sound really selfish, I acknowledge lot's of kids have only one parent and sometimes no one, sorry if your offended.

    PetuniaL... He is coming up to 50, if he continues will he die?
    Okay , I can handle the truth - how long if he continues and will it just come and take him or will he gets signs and be given how ever long to live. I appreciate all your time to help me.

    Posted 2 years ago #

  3. PetuniaLee
    Member

    The damage to the cells in his brain and liver are already there. He may die a premature death because of the drinking. Every alcoholic I've known seems to die in their early 40s. Mostly from asphyxiation. Very sad.

    Posted 2 years ago #

  4. bleukreuz
    Member

    Yes.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholism#Signs_and_symptoms
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_effects_of_alcohol

    Posted 2 years ago #

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