A friend of mine was working with me yesterday. She knows about my AF life and is super supportive (she's a true friend indeed!). Incidently my friend works in mental illness so she is understanding and broad minded in her thinking. Anyway, she told me about another mother at the school where her son goes. She has been a chronic alcoholic for some time. She went to rehab some time last year and everyone thought she was much better. As of last week she is lying in a hospital in an alcohol induced coma. I've never heard of this before but what happens is that an AIC is not from drinking too much in any one sitting, but just a general build up overdose. It's like she just collapsed... her brain just gave in I guess. When she was first rushed into hospital her BA reading was somewhere in the .7 range! It sounds to me like she developed an absolute tolerance buildup from years of alcohol abuse. Her prognosis is not good at all.
Totally sad for her kids! Ugh! And the stigma attached to alcoholism due to ignorance would not be helping those kids and husband, particularly as they are a prominent Sydney family.
The family are really, very wealthy serving as another reminder that this disease/addiction can strike anyone.
So I just thought I'd pass it on... I had never heard this term before. Maybe if Su reads this, she can shed some light on the subject.
The more I read and learn about alcohol and it's effects, the more I want to do something productive in the community to stamp out the attitude amongst the young; how to pick warning signs, what can be about it and that alcoholics are not necessarily skid row types. It's really making me wonder about government funding towards education and why there is so little dollars going into prevention/education when alcohol is clearly costing the country so much. Hmmm...
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Totally sad for her kids! Ugh! And the stigma attached to alcoholism due to ignorance would not be helping those kids and husband, particularly as they are a prominent Sydney family.
The family are really, very wealthy serving as another reminder that this disease/addiction can strike anyone.
So I just thought I'd pass it on... I had never heard this term before. Maybe if Su reads this, she can shed some light on the subject.
The more I read and learn about alcohol and it's effects, the more I want to do something productive in the community to stamp out the attitude amongst the young; how to pick warning signs, what can be about it and that alcoholics are not necessarily skid row types. It's really making me wonder about government funding towards education and why there is so little dollars going into prevention/education when alcohol is clearly costing the country so much. Hmmm...
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