From: norborder@bite.me   
      
   "Handover Phist" sayed:   
      
   > norborder :   
   >>   
   >> "Handover Phist" sayed:   
   >>   
   >>> norborder :   
   >>>> 44 years old, and since high school, never able stop drinking. Many   
   >>>> tried   
   >>>> to   
   >>>> help him, but he was in that Nicholas Cage "Leaving Las Vegas" frame of   
   >>>> mind   
   >>>> of late, apparently.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> He wasn't one of those nasty, angry drunks either. Just a gentle soul   
   >>>> with a   
   >>>> gigantic demon he couldn't overcome.  RIP buddy.   
   >>>   
   >>> Sorry to hear it bud. I've been fighting that one myself for years.   
   >>> Nasty way to live and die.   
   >>   
   >> Well I certainly hope *you're* winning the fight, man.   
   >>   
   >> With my friend it got to the point where he could barely move. He was a   
   >> big   
   >> guy but his shoulders and upper arms were practically reduced to skin and   
   >> bones. He wasn't eating, and the booze in turn was eating his muscles and   
   >> wrecking his nervous system. Finally, and not surprisingly, his heart   
   >> gave   
   >> out.   
      
   > It's shitty to watch happen and I'm helping a couple of friends out of   
   > it too. I've one friend that stopped eating completely and ended up on   
   > the liver transplant list. I'm doing well though. My job is very   
   > physical and I eat like a horse. Nobody is worrying too badly about me   
   > right now, although in the last 25 years there have been two   
   > interventions.   
   >   
   > I did my 10 days of no sleep, night sweats, and severe pain without the   
   > need for rehab, which makes me a very lucky man indeed.   
      
   Glad to hear it...   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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