[Magdalen] Wages of Alcohol

[Ann Markle]

David, I too am grateful for your recovery, and my own.  I'm so sorry about
your friends..  I'm also grateful for the recovery of others on this list,
and am praying for all of us this morning.

Ann

The Rev. Ann Markle
Buffalo, NY
ann.markle at aya.yale.edu

On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 12:00 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

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> I spoke today with a neighbor of mine from when I lived in Eau  Claire.
> He is a retired physician, also, and had what I've always thought of as  an
> ideal relationship.  He is gay, and I knew his partner.   Ironically, the
> two of them were around and supportive when I went on the wagon
> almost 32 years ago.  They were together some four decades.
>
> I'd known from a conversation a couple of years ago that the  physician's
> partner was having some alcohol problems, but the problem  subsequently
> blew up.
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> To cut to the chase, the partner has had peripheral neuropathy, and  can
> no longer walk.  There has been an encephalopathy with a  complete
> personality change and he has alcoholic cirrhosis with classical  ascites.
> (swelling of the abdomen).
>
> He scarcely knows his parner, and does not want to see him,
> anyway.  He is institutionalized since he can no longer take care  of
> himself.
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> This is a tragic but predictable outcome of intractable ethanol  drinking.
>
> But for the grace of God........
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> David Strang - Recovering alcoholic, thanks be to God.
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