A very good friend at work got a call today that her 48 year old sister has 2 hours to live and she needed to get to the hospital.

Her sister is an alcoholic. The parents kept enabling her (paying her rent, buying her new cars everytime she crashed hers), then 2-3 months ago they cut her off. She has been homeless since with a 15 year old daughter and 18 year old son.

She dried out in June and then again 3 weeks ago. When she was in the hospital three weeks ago they told her one more drink and she would be dead. She left and proceeded to drink a gallon of vodka every day. On Saturday night she passed out at a drug house and they called the rescue. Her liver and kidneys are shot.

My friend said if she pulled through she'd tell her she loves her then slap her for being stupid. Then she got the call. I talked to her for a long time. I told her everything she feels is normal. Her sister was very sick and when you drink that much you can't even think straight. So to get help she had to dry out first to be able to consciously think of help. She did dry out and she chose to go back out.

Her family is devasted, her mom says it's all her fault that she was a terrible mom. It's hard to see this but it reminds me of why I don't drink and that I need to go to meetings.

Tranq