I hate this disease
My (27) best friend (28) since I was 10 spiraled into alcoholism about two years ago, give or take.
Before that, she drank but as far as I know, it was weekends here or there. Maybe she was good at hiding it or maybe she spiraled in alcoholism that quickly due to a chain of awful events that I won’t get into..
Anyways when I confronted her with the reality that she is an alcoholic a little over a year ago ( it took me a bit to really realize and accept ) I got her into rehab.
She did the program, got out, relapse with two weeks.
This started the saga of going to rehabs for 1 week only to leave.. I begged her to stop, I tried “tough love”, I offered her to live with me and I’d keep her on track, her family did all the same things.. her kids cried and begged her to stop, CPS got involved.
She didn’t quit.
About 3 weeks ago, she was admitted into the hospital. Her liver was 7X bigger and her other organs started to fail.
At 28 years old, she passed away.
I am so heartbroken because she was my only friend who I kept my whole life. She was such an amazing person when she was sober. I love her, truly.
She was young, and has two beautiful babies.
I’m also so fucking mad. I told her this EXACT thing would happen. She had every resource at her fingertips. She knew she was hurting everyone around her.
Addiction fucking sucks.