Alcohol self help thread II

jayne.doe

Yeh brodev when you are a parent yourself you empathise with the parents dont you? You never (god willing) know how they feel but you understand a little bit. I really hope with all my heart there is a happy ending to this story and, as you say it puts ones own problems into perspective.

brodev

This is an unashamed bump. I am sober today. What a lovely thing for an alcoholic to say. Sometimes I take the fact that I am sober today for granted, but today I want to shout it from the rafters. The joy and peace that I have today is without compare. I think that over the last week or so I have been so caught up in others agony that I have forgotten to appreciate my own happiness. I know that it seems incongruous at times but I have to remind myself that although everything in the world is not all right............ I am today.
I hope that all regular and infrequent contributers are all well.

Chrismojam

brodev wrote: »

I know that it seems incongruous at times but I have to remind myself that although everything in the world is not all right............ I am today.

Glad to hear it hun, you take care XX

Chrismojam

Hi all, hope we are all doing ok:D

Mother took bad last Friday at 4 in the morning and moved back to the higher dependancy unit....nobody at the hospital (either ward) saw fit to notify the family or her carers what had happened!:mad: .....her CPN happened to be doing a visit that day which is how she found out she had been moved....my sis found out at 5 in the afternoon....13 hours later....had she been at the end that would have been valuable time with her lost....:mad: Communication in this hospital appears to be non-existant!

She had caught another chest infection whilst in hospital (bound to happen really!)....seems to be on the mend (again!)....getting back to her cantancerous old self....wants to go home (so she can have a smoke:rolleyes: )...is trying to prove she is well enough by taking the mask off:rolleyes: ....which off course leaves her short of breath!!

There has been much more on the lack of communication front/and a particularly ARSEY!!!!!! member of staff who my sis and I had the misfortune to speak to on Friday evening (after not being notified of mum's turn for the worse).....I will be whacking in a complaint about him and the general COMPLETE lack of co-ordination/communication....I understand it is a big hospital and they are not just dealing with my mum...but it was a 'comedy' (NOT) of errors the last time she was in as well...does everyone have this much trouble or is it just us????

Anyway...she must be getting better cos I was getting bloody annoyed with her behaviour earlier....so yeah...definately getting back to her old self.....could turn at any moment of course...but that's the way it will be from now on....:rolleyes: sooner I get used to that idea the better!

Anyway.........hope we are all well and looking (POSITIVELY!!!) to the future...best wishes all XXXX

Al_Mac

I'm positive

Former_MSE_Lawrence

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