What does dying from alcoholism look like?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is it possible to have a relatively physically demanding job and still be so sick from alcoholism that you could go to work, then go home and die? Or would the person have to be really sick, so sick they couldn't work, before they died?

Anyone?

It depends. Sometimes people's brains sort of blow up. This happened to a popular bartender some years ago. The work was somewhat physically demanding in that he was on his feet for 9 hours every night. I believe he was 52, and had lost a successful career before becoming a bartender.

What restaurant was this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is it possible to have a relatively physically demanding job and still be so sick from alcoholism that you could go to work, then go home and die? Or would the person have to be really sick, so sick they couldn't work, before they died?

Anyone?

It depends. Sometimes people's brains sort of blow up. This happened to a popular bartender some years ago. The work was somewhat physically demanding in that he was on his feet for 9 hours every night. I believe he was 52, and had lost a successful career before becoming a bartender.

What restaurant was this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is it possible to have a relatively physically demanding job and still be so sick from alcoholism that you could go to work, then go home and die? Or would the person have to be really sick, so sick they couldn't work, before they died?

Anyone?

It depends. Sometimes people's brains sort of blow up. This happened to a popular bartender some years ago. The work was somewhat physically demanding in that he was on his feet for 9 hours every night. I believe he was 52, and had lost a successful career before becoming a bartender.

What restaurant was this?

Was this around here, about 6 years ago?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My Mother is unfortunately an Alcoholic, she has been battling it for longer than 20 years. when i was 14 she got take into hospital at deaths door. she has full detox and was off it for 3 and a half years, sadly she started drinking again. im 19 now. she wont listen to me and she wants to die her own way she says. she has got cirrhosis of the liver and its already failed once. i know one day ill see her dead. she has told me to be strong for her. i love her with all my heart. just sad that alcohol should be even be the one thing that keeps her going.

My mother is like this too. She's told me that too, that I have to make it when she's gone because I've told her I won't be able to handle it when she dies. It does make me feel angry that she's basically chosen alcohol over me, over everything else. But I just try to see it as a sickness in her brain, and just things the sickness makes her do. Like it's not really her, it's the disease.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is it possible to have a relatively physically demanding job and still be so sick from alcoholism that you could go to work, then go home and die? Or would the person have to be really sick, so sick they couldn't work, before they died?

Anyone?

It depends. Sometimes people's brains sort of blow up. This happened to a popular bartender some years ago. The work was somewhat physically demanding in that he was on his feet for 9 hours every night. I believe he was 52, and had lost a successful career before becoming a bartender.

We all know what you did. Brian's DC will be told in time and will have to decide whether to pursue or let it drop. I hope he pursues. I am just shy of alerting the proper people myself. You can't stay abroad forever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I also remember the yellow from my grandpa. It wasn't just his skin, it was also the white of his eyes. He was weak, skin & bones and very, very yellow

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It's called Jaundice

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You die from diseases associated with alcoholism, not from alcoholism itself. These diseases include cirrhosis, portal vein hypertension, hepatitis, and acute liver failure, as well as primary alcohol poisoning.

yes but alcoholism causes these deathly conditions so you die from alcohol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My Mother is unfortunately an Alcoholic, she has been battling it for longer than 20 years. when i was 14 she got take into hospital at deaths door. she has full detox and was off it for 3 and a half years, sadly she started drinking again. im 19 now. she wont listen to me and she wants to die her own way she says. she has got cirrhosis of the liver and its already failed once. i know one day ill see her dead. she has told me to be strong for her. i love her with all my heart. just sad that alcohol should be even be the one thing that keeps her going.

My mother is like this too. She's told me that too, that I have to make it when she's gone because I've told her I won't be able to handle it when she dies. It does make me feel angry that she's basically chosen alcohol over me, over everything else. But I just try to see it as a sickness in her brain, and just things the sickness makes her do. Like it's not really her, it's the disease.

Problem with people like these is they only want what they want screw everyone else even their own children. Sad but true.

[Anonymous]

My brother has been ill for quite some time and do to HIPAA he is not telling anyone the full story and we cannot find out. If anyone can shed some light on this I would appreciate it. Personally, I think he is terminally ill and I think he may have cirrhosis. He is going to be 57 and has been drinking for at least 35 years. At least 3 years ago he was told to never drink again. He is still drinking, He has been hospitalized to drain fluid and has had confusion. He has fallen a handful of times. His last hospitalization was last week. He was in for 5 days. Supposedly his sodium level was high, he was dehydrated, so weak he could not walk and needed an aide to sit in his room with him. I stopped in to see him last week at home, he is walking with a cane, is on disability, is frail, has aged (I am 11 years younger and the nurse asked if I was his daughter), not eating and my sister-in-law said she found a stash of Jagermeister. Apparently he has to have PT because he is weak and a nurse comes to visit. His wife does not have permission to speak with his doctors. He does not answer me when I ask him health-related questions. He has had intestinal issues since he was born and has been hospitalized because of that as well. However, I think he was hospitalized because of alcohol and just used this as an excuse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is it possible to have a relatively physically demanding job and still be so sick from alcoholism that you could go to work, then go home and die? Or would the person have to be really sick, so sick they couldn't work, before they died?

Anyone?

It depends. Sometimes people's brains sort of blow up. This happened to a popular bartender some years ago. The work was somewhat physically demanding in that he was on his feet for 9 hours every night. I believe he was 52, and had lost a successful career before becoming a bartender.

We all know what you did. Brian's DC will be told in time and will have to decide whether to pursue or let it drop. I hope he pursues. I am just shy of alerting the proper people myself. You can't stay abroad forever.

Uh...what? Is someone alerting the authorities that "Brian" the bartender died of alcoholism? And someone is overseas now? WTF

[Anonymous]

I was around 15 when my uncle went to Chicago, locked himself in a hotel room and then drank himself to death. This was very freaky to me, to give up on life totally. He was an alcoholic for a long time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My brother has been ill for quite some time and do to HIPAA he is not telling anyone the full story and we cannot find out. If anyone can shed some light on this I would appreciate it. Personally, I think he is terminally ill and I think he may have cirrhosis. He is going to be 57 and has been drinking for at least 35 years. At least 3 years ago he was told to never drink again. He is still drinking, He has been hospitalized to drain fluid and has had confusion. He has fallen a handful of times. His last hospitalization was last week. He was in for 5 days. Supposedly his sodium level was high, he was dehydrated, so weak he could not walk and needed an aide to sit in his room with him. I stopped in to see him last week at home, he is walking with a cane, is on disability, is frail, has aged (I am 11 years younger and the nurse asked if I was his daughter), not eating and my sister-in-law said she found a stash of Jagermeister. Apparently he has to have PT because he is weak and a nurse comes to visit. His wife does not have permission to speak with his doctors. He does not answer me when I ask him health-related questions. He has had intestinal issues since he was born and has been hospitalized because of that as well. However, I think he was hospitalized because of alcohol and just used this as an excuse.

Based on what you have written your brother is dying and he probably does not have long. If he has stopped drinking and is taking his medication correctly he could have longer, but there is no recovering from how far along you describe him to be. My father died at 57 from complications of cirrhosis of the liver. He died very suddenly from veins bursting in his esophagus and then bleeding out very quickly. He never quit drinking and towards the end he stopped going to the doctor and stopped taking his medication.

[Anonymous]

My uncle drank himself to death in his early 40s. He was an alcoholic for a long time, had received at least 5 DUIs (had his wife leave with the kids as a result), and his liver was 3 times the size of a normal person's upon autopsy.

[Anonymous]

Well, you can always give yourself esophageal varicose veins and bleed out. It's pretty spectacular.

[Anonymous]

Alcoholics die basically of liver failure. I understand that dying of liver failure is a long, drawn out, painful process. Don't overdose on Tylenol because it's similar. In liver failure, the liver is no longer able to process bilirubin. Usually it processes it and it goes out in your poop. But instead it goes into the skin and they turn yellow. In severe cases I've seen eyelids and even tears stained with bilirubin. Additionally clotting factors are processed in the liver so when these processes are disturbed, they start bleeding/bruising easily. The brain is also affected so many seem to have altered mental status. And it's painful. Overall it's a horrible way to die so please take care of your liver.