I’ve got a friend that just today told me his wife is in the hospital with liver failure. She’s a long time alcoholic. Her kidneys are also failing. 1 hospital has denied her a liver transplant and the other probably will too. He’s devastated, but his wife has tried to hide and has denied it to this day. It’s sad. She’s going to leave him and 3 kids alone.
My understanding on on transplant protocols is you have to be at least 6 months free from booze and drugs to even be considered for a transplant. My friend will never be eligible at this point.
I think a lot of people who are close to alcoholics are themselves in denial.
You can hide a heroin addiction. You can hide a cocaine addiction (until one looks at your bank account). You can’t hide an alcohol addiction.
Alcoholics stink like alcohol. It comes out on their breath. It seeps out from the pores in their skin when they sweat. And all the breath mints and showering they can do won’t disguise it.
If you have an alcoholic in your life, you know when they’ve been drinking because you can smell it. Anyone who says differently is lying to themselves.