The Giving Up/ Cutting Down alcohol support thread - number 11

shaggydoo

May :-

= 7 Days AF

= 14 days AF

= 21 days AF

= 28 days AF

= 31 days AF

= target achieved



Antonia /9

Bearacus 4/TF

Beck7 /14

CuppaTea 5/TF
Chocolate Cupcake 8/23
Evilsquid 12/15
Gardenanna 14/TF
Gien 7/TF

GreyPilgrim 4/TF
Mackeroo 7/14
Maman 7/10

Mari /TF
Miss P 14/18
Miss rlr 12/20
Shaggy 14/17

Stupot 3/TF
Pricey SOS 17/29

TotallyInzane 3/14
Tracy_36 16/25



PLEASE PUT YOUR AFDs IN A BOLD RED FONT and good luck! (and if I've made any mistakes, don't be shy, please let me know!)

EVERYONE WELCOME

evilsquid1603

the past two days have been AF so another two for me please

tracy_36

20 AF please Shaggy

Will hopefully make it to my 25 day target

It really helps setting them, as you feel bad if you are going to break it - so many thanks x

GreyPilgrim

We--lll, sorry for being away for the past few days. Life just dealt us a few lemons. :-)

Father in law passed away yesterday afternoon. We got called into hospital at 6am on tuesday morning and were told he was expected to go at any moment (long illness, cancer, strokes, diabetes, infections)...lingered on till wednesday afternoon and then passed peacefully.

It's probably been the worst experience of my life so far. Nursing staff were fantastic, but at the end of the day you're forced to watch a human being suffer in a way that if you did it to a dog, you'd be arrested for cruelty. We essentially had to watch him cough up his lungs whilst he starved to death.

I'm sorry...heads in a funny place right now. So I'm using this as an excuse for a drink. No excuses. hahahah....

I actually bought the beers after leaving the hospital yesterday but I got home and crashed out on the sofa. Went to work today, got back, and started on them.

Listen guys, I know that death is a really taboo subject with a lot of people...my family refuses to speak about it and thinks it's bad luck. Please don't be like that, ok? Talk about it. Talk about what happens to the ones who are left behind. Talk about what you want to happen after you die, about finances, about funeral arrangements, about costs, about organ donations. It's a million times worse to have to discuss this AFTER you've gone and remember, then only thing that you can guarantee in life that at some point, you will die.

GreyPilgrim

You can probably tell from the spelling and grammar that I'm well into those beers at the moment....:(

GreyPilgrim

Can I just stress that wasn't a plea for lots of sympathy posts.

Just feel very strongly about our current legal system, and how it seems to be created with an outdated religious dogmatic view of rights and wrongs at it's core.

Utterly wrong.

tracy_36

GreyPilgrim - my Dad died over 2 years ago - you are right about talking about it - thing is, that's all we do now!!!
My Dad had loads of home brew lager in the house he was getting ready for Xmas - as soon as we got back from the hospital we polished it all off - beer bottles everywhere - sure he would have appreciated us drinking them thou
Sorry that you had to watch your FIL die, thankfully my dad had a heart attack and went without warning - so much better than having to watch suffering

Try to not let the beers make you even more down - easier said than done I know - I was living on wine for a good few months, it obv didn't help, but felt like it at the time

xxxhugsxxx

PriceySOS

20 please, Shaggy

Still resisting the wine in the garden despite gorgeous weather. :A
Miss P:Don't mention the pin*t word - one of my favourites!!! :cool::eek: I have promised myself that I will have no wine this weekend, just this once - I keep on losing a few pounds then piling them all back on at the weekend, when I imbibe (think that's the word), and it's too much of a coincidence.

So sorry about your loss, GP. Thanks for the advice too.

sistafromanothermista

Hi
Last jan i had my own LBM when i realised i was drinking a bottle (sometimes more who am i kidding) of wine a night :eek:
I was coming in from work and the very first thing i'd do is pour a glass....
Well it was getting to the point where i had constant diarrhea (sp?) and stomach cramps whenever i would drink ANY alcohol i was so worried i'd have something serious as i'd been heavily drinking for a good 8-9 yrs
Like i said, i had a LBM and decided enough was enough and just stopped (looking back now i realise this was quite a dangerous thing to do)
I've now lost 2stone in weight and rarely drink (i had a cheeky glass of ww wine the other week)
Plus i think of all the money i have saved :beer:

evilsquid1603

im sending you and your family all my love greypilgrim. xx

i too don't understand why we have to let human beings suffer but our pets can go peacefully when the time is quite obviously right. it was like that with my nana, on new years day 2005 we got called in to the hospital and had to sit and watch her struggle to breathe for 6 hours before she finally went. its was the most awful experience I've ever had.