Posted on 05/04/2009 3:27:34 AM PDT by Perdogg
Washington (ANI): Former Baywatch star David Hasselhoff has been rushed to an LA hospital because of alcohol poisoning on May 2. According to RadarOnline.com, the vodka-guzzling 'America's Got Talent' judge was taken to Cedars-Sinai medical centre after his daughter Hayley, 16, found him unconscious on the floor of his home in Encino, California.
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I wonder how many gallons of vodka it takes to destroy the liver? He wont be around too much longer.
Alcohol poisoning my a$$. Some people put a shotgun in their mouths, some people taunt police officers, some people drink themselves to death. It’s all the same disease process and leads to the same ending.
At ease, Navy Vet. Have a heart. The man’s dealing with a crippling disease, not a character flaw. I was the same age as young Hayley when I would regularly find my Dad unconscious like that. Alcoholism is an equal opportunity destroyer. Rich, poor, young or old. It doesn’t matter how much money you make or what you do for a living. It eats victims and their families alive. I used to sit in on open AA meetings with my Dad, and met celebrities and famous political figures who struggled with the same disease as the poor Joe sleeping on the park bench. They live day to day. And, if they’re lucky, when the lay down to sleep each night in a clean bed, they can say to themselves, “I didn’t drink today.”
Bravo.
I used to HATE alcoholics.
My mother was an alcoholic.
And it killed her.
Only at 40 was I finally able to see alcoholism for what it really was, and finally regain a sense of empathy and pity for those suffering.
Agreed. It's just a longer process.
Strange what fame and money can do.
My Dad was one of the very lucky ones. He spent the last five years of his life in recovery. Never touched a drop, and went to Glory still surrounded by a supportive family and friends. Most, however, die alone after having lost everything. Whenever he drank, he became a mean, vicious, and abusive drunk. The transformation was terrifying. Even at his worst, though, I managed to understand he had no control over it; that somehow it really wasn’t my Dad standing there. Something evil had taken hold. My heart goes out to any kid dealing with that disease.
I think in this case it only means we get to hear about it.
What a shame to put your kid through that.
Strange what fame and money can do.
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I am 50. I have lost 2 friends to booze, one who was only 39, and the other at 49.
Neither had fame or money.
I’m very happy that your father spent his final years sober, and hope that gave you some time to resolve at least a portion of what we go through. Both the ability to ask for forgiveness and the ability to give it can never be underestimated.
I really, really wish I’d had that opportunity with my mother.
Like you said, she was one of the ones who lost everything.
Sporadic contact, finalized by a two-day deathbed vigil, really didn’t do much to come to terms with this awful situation.
God Bless.
Ain’t got a damn thing to do with it.
right there with you...watched my dad die from it....i was 37....now i am watching my daughters mother....its such a shame....
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