Hi,
Was contemplating whether or not to post this but it is a good one to think about and acknowledge the lengths that AL will take you.
I found my next door neighbour dead this yesterday morning in our shared drive way. I was walking down the drive way on the way to work and there he was lying flat on his stomach.
(Background on my neighbour he was a 53 year old alcoholic, drank extremely heavily most the time on his own. He usually sat on a milk crate just outside his front door which I walked pass every morning to get to my car. He use to drink for 3 or 4 days straight and I think he would have drank more if he could afford it. I never saw anyone come to visit him, from our discussions I only can assume that his family have ridden him of because of this alcoholism. When he was wildly drunk he talked to himself a lot and banged around in his apartment which I could hear because we shared the common wall).
We became quiet friendly over the past six months and he shared some of his life with me. He was a very lonely soul with a very bad drinking problem. When he was sober he was a funny, quit witted character with a big heart).
When I found him yesterday morning I actually thought that he had drank too much and fell asleep on the driveway. Then I looked closely and realised he was blue and had blood around his head and on the concrete I realised he was dead. This was the most frightening experience. Police are still doing testing to see what caused his death but I can be more than certain that he drank too much fell over hit his head. By the coldness of this body I would say he would have been dead for 6 or 7 hours.
He was a kind soul, a good sense of humour with a very bad addiction to alcohol. I will miss seeing him sit on this crate with his cup of tea in the morning.
I am so upset and at the same time furious about what damage alcohol can do to people. What a way to go....so undignified! I am still in shock about finding him and it has made me even more determine to stop alcohol in my life as I saw first hand what it can do to a human being.
Sorry if this has upset anyone but it is the reality of someone who didn?t stop drinking
RIP Greg!
Thanks for listening :l
Was contemplating whether or not to post this but it is a good one to think about and acknowledge the lengths that AL will take you.
I found my next door neighbour dead this yesterday morning in our shared drive way. I was walking down the drive way on the way to work and there he was lying flat on his stomach.
(Background on my neighbour he was a 53 year old alcoholic, drank extremely heavily most the time on his own. He usually sat on a milk crate just outside his front door which I walked pass every morning to get to my car. He use to drink for 3 or 4 days straight and I think he would have drank more if he could afford it. I never saw anyone come to visit him, from our discussions I only can assume that his family have ridden him of because of this alcoholism. When he was wildly drunk he talked to himself a lot and banged around in his apartment which I could hear because we shared the common wall).
We became quiet friendly over the past six months and he shared some of his life with me. He was a very lonely soul with a very bad drinking problem. When he was sober he was a funny, quit witted character with a big heart).
When I found him yesterday morning I actually thought that he had drank too much and fell asleep on the driveway. Then I looked closely and realised he was blue and had blood around his head and on the concrete I realised he was dead. This was the most frightening experience. Police are still doing testing to see what caused his death but I can be more than certain that he drank too much fell over hit his head. By the coldness of this body I would say he would have been dead for 6 or 7 hours.
He was a kind soul, a good sense of humour with a very bad addiction to alcohol. I will miss seeing him sit on this crate with his cup of tea in the morning.
I am so upset and at the same time furious about what damage alcohol can do to people. What a way to go....so undignified! I am still in shock about finding him and it has made me even more determine to stop alcohol in my life as I saw first hand what it can do to a human being.
Sorry if this has upset anyone but it is the reality of someone who didn?t stop drinking
RIP Greg!
Thanks for listening :l
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