I'm so sorry you're going thru this. My son has been a "problem child" all of his life. He began drinking as a teenager, and before long he was a full blown alcoholic. He got into minor scrapes as a teen, and then he totaled a car with another teen in it when he was 19 -- they both were almost killed!!! Of course they were both drunk!! He lost his license for awhile from that one.

But he kept drinking. That didn't stop him or scare him. He figured he was immortal!

Fast forward in his 30's he and a buddy were drunk and thought it would be funny to set a farmers field on fire -- they got caught, and went to prison! My son served 2 1/2 yrs on a 5 yr sentence. Now he's a felon. THAT didn't even stop him.

Again fast forward to this past spring when I get a call from the hospital telling me to get there fast because my son is dying! His liver had completely shut down!!! We fly over there (40 miles away) and he's all yellow, and there's tubes coming out of every orifice he has. He's unconscious and I ask the doctor how much time he has, and the doctor just shakes his head. My daughter, granddaughter and I stand vigil, and the next day he semi-wakes up and wants to know where he is -- then goes back to sleep. This goes on for days on end. My daughter takes a picture of him at his worst so she can show him if he ever wakes up and is lucid.

Fast forward again --- he's home now, and the doctors don't know why he survived!! His liver is working, although not 100%. But it's working, and that's a miracle in itself. He's doing very well -- he's weak from being lazy but if he'd get up and exercise like he should he'd be fine. But he hasn't had a drink in almost 5 months and he said he's ALL DONE because the picture my daughter took scared the crap out of him -- and the fact that he almost died scared the heck out of him too!

So he FINALLY hit his bottom. But he had to almost die to do it. Pretty pitiful, isn't it? But that's what sometimes happens. Some people have to almost DIE to get sober.