Dear Marie,

If you click on the ‘members list’ (mine being Braveheart) or the search icon for ‘alcoholism’ you can then track all the posts that have been made. You will discover that there are approximately 140 that refer to the disease on this forum.

I have to say that through years of witnessing alcoholic behaviour (including doing volunteer work at de-tox centres and rehab's, an alcoholic uncle and a brother-in-law who both suicided plus a brother who very nearly succeeded recently), I have never come across an alcoholic whose throat went so lax that they couldn't eat (boy, they can sure 'un-lax' it to vomit though!) so I thank you increasing my knowledge base. Perhaps they hid it really well or maybe I just thought that because they chose alcohol over food then that was why they didn't eat not realising that perhaps they couldn't actually swallow.

P.S. sorry for the above joke re: 'un-lax' but in life, one must always remember to laugh.
Example: My first husband was an alcoholic and one night he came home so drunk that he was on his knees bending over the toilet vomiting his head off and feeling as though he was gonna die. As I was walking past the toilet, he must have heard my footsteps and he yelled out to me "Fiona, call me an ambulance, call me an ambulance", so I calmly walked in, lifted his head up and said to him "You're an ambulance, you're an ambulance" and walked away laughing myself silly. Dumb and sad I know, but it surely made me feel better!

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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less travelled by,
and that has made all the difference.
(Robert Frost 1874 – 1963)