Whats So Fun About Alcohol, The Facts

I'll get back to my rehab journey after this post.  The incident happened while my wife was in the hospital this past week.  The Video is from the UK, but just multiply those numbers for the US.

While sitting in the waiting room while my wife was in surgery, I happened to overhear the lady next to me talking on her cell phone.  She was sobbing as she cried. 
When she got off the phone, I asked her if there was anything that I could do.  She just shook her head.  The surgeon had just come to tell her that they had just sewed her husband back up and couldn't do anything for him.
This man is in his early 60's.  He had known that he had kidney cancer for 6 years and finally decided to have that kidney taken out.  You see, he found out that he was going to need a liver transplant.  You can't get on any transplant list if you have cancer.  
 When they opened this man up, his liver and adjoining organs were very brittle and they were unable to move them around to get to the cancerous kidney.  To move those organs around in the present condition would cause more serious problems. 
This man has cirrhosis from long term alcohol abuse.  Now that he has cancer, which in normal people would be very treatable, his is a death sentence.  Alcohol can not only kill quickly, overdoses and accidents, but the long term effect can be a long and painful death sentence.  This man had never quit drinking and he knew that he had a liver problem.  This was a very sad moment for me in the waiting room as there was not much to say to console her.  What I did tell her will remain private.
My wife has cirrhosis from alcohol and was in the hospital to remove her cancer in her breast.  She was a lucky one.  We caught the cancer early and she and I have both given up alcohol.  At this point we are a little over 4 months sober.  It will keep you sober to be in a waiting room with a heartbroken women crying over the condition of her lifelong husband.
Alcohol Kills.  

Please get help for yourself or if you have a family member that has an alcohol condition please help them.  I know, because I am an alcoholic.  They will have a hard time asking for help.  Links at the top of the page are to Alcoholics Anonymous, Ala-teen and Narcotics Anonymous can give you some guidance.  My email and phone number is at the bottom of the page.  This is serious business.
May God Bless you.
Mike