A Little Too Much Alcohol

Vodka, whiskey, rum, gin, wine, cider, beer. What do they have in common? Yeap, they are all alcoholic drinks.

It is ok to drink alcohol within proper limits. Alcohol is a way of socialising, it is a way to de-stress, a way to soak your sorrows away, a way to help you sleep, a way to make you go off-limits and crazy, and lose all inhibitions! BUT, as fun as it may sound, alcohol is quite a deadly drink as well.

I was in utter shock when a saw a young girl, who shared the same birth year as me, dying in front of my eyes, due to alcohol related liver damage. Imagine, she was as old as I was. And yet, there she was lying in bed, slowly making her way into her own grave. It was due to excessive alcohol intake over a number of years that led to her liver damage.... Her liver was so scarred and inflammed that it could no longer function properly.....hence, she became sicker and sicker, and eventually died. The worse thing was I actually saw her a few weeks earlier when she came in with the DTs. I remembered emphasising the importance of stopping alcohol as her liver was quite damaged....but I guess it fell onto deaf ears.

Shocking, isnt?

I was pretty dumbfounded. How could someone so young self-destruct herself into such a state?? I mean we have tried to give her alot of advice, support and all the medications we could think of, to help her....however, she has lost her own battle to survive, purely due to her own irresponsibility.

sigh.