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Discussion of Alcoholism
Re: alcohol induced dementia
Posted By: Gloria In Response To: Re: alcohol induced dementia (Kim)
Date: Thursday, 8 September 2005, at 3:26 p.m.
I wish I'd found this site a year ago. My husband, now ex-husband, is 67 years old and has abused alcohol for 47 years. He still held a job but began drinking immediately upon arriving home from work (he also smoked a joint)and he drank enough especially on weekends that he was still drunk until sometime after noon the next day. But in July of that year he became very distressed when his boss of 25 years was fired. His use of alcohol increased even more. I had noticed a increased lack of coordination even before all this happened, but it became more pronounced. He went to bed with a candle burning and set papers and the table on fire. Fortunately, the fire alarm woke him and he was able to put the fire out. His doctor told him he had to quit drinking. I told him that I could not live this way and he needed to get help. He promised to go into treatment. Then he backed out and decided he could do it himself. He never stopped, because I could not cope with his drinking, he decided we were separated and started seeing prostitutes, taped up nude pictures of young women on the walls of the family room, and visited "gentlemans clubs" two to three nights per week. I was not strong enough to continue being the care giver. I asked him to leave. (I actually had little choice becuase the insurance company was ready to pull out home insurance after the fire).
Instead of renting a small apartment he brough a van and put a mattress in it and set out to live in his van. We are now divorce, but he still calls me for information that he can not keep track of, like phone numbers for his car insurance company, etc. Within 2 1/2 months he totaled his van. He has lost or spent half of his nest egg and can't seem to tell the same story twice about recent events. I and his family have tried to get him to seek help including treatment for alcoholizm but he refuses. The problem is that we all feel some guilt in not being able to stop him before he either hurts himself or someone else on the road.
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