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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Hepatitis / June 2007Alcofluence if inkahol
I have never been an alcoholic and since 40, I didn't drink much at all - it must wasn't worth being slowed down the next day. Then the hep diag in the 90's, so I cut it back first to never more than one, and then a few years later to a sip of someone else's champagne on New Years Eve or a sip of wine if someone was raving about good it was. Then about 5 years ago, I just stopped (that urge-to-live-thing, you know). Almost everyone has Martinelli out when there's champagne or wine out, and everyone figures you're either designated-driver or 12-stepper. But I still missed it. I realized a week ago that I don't miss it anymore. It's like guacamole to me - I don't want any, ever, but having people around me eating this doesn't give me some kind of desire to have it myself! > I have never been an alcoholic and since 40, I didn't drink much at all > - it must wasn't worth being slowed down the next day. [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > It's like guacamole to me - I don't want any, ever, but having people > around me eating this doesn't give me some kind of desire to have it myself! Hi Russian I know what you mean and i dont miss it that much either nowerdays. I was a dopehead for 15 years before changing my ways to normal and started a career in the alcoholbeverage industry, for 20 years now, (how ironic is?that?) and with that a lot of alcohol. Since my diagnose three years ago i don?t drink, not eaven a teaspoon, but i have tastings as a daily task in mork and do so professionally and "spit" I also lost the utge-to-live-thing for a while shotly after diagnose and felt like a alien at partys and in social gatherings where drinks and whine were served but thats no problem any longer, iv? got over it, the only thing awkward left is always having to explain why i dont want a drink. Hey, how?s your tx going? hope your doin?good. Cheers /H >> I have never been an alcoholic and since 40, I didn't drink much at all >> - it must wasn't worth being slowed down the next day. [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > > Hey, how¨s your tx going? hope your doin´good. Ask on a good day - it's no biggie, ask on a bad day, I call time on treatment "half-life". But the numbers are great, and that's what it's all about, right? TGIF for me means a shot, one less dose in the box, and eventually one more box finished, and fewer boxes to go. I have only 3 more boxes to go!!! >I have never been an alcoholic and since 40, I didn't drink much at all - >it must wasn't worth being slowed down the next day. [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > around me eating this doesn't give me some kind of desire to have it > myself! It's funny, I'm sure no Super Woman and I've always kind of gone along with the flow. But one fine morning a few years after I had the car accident that gave me the transfusion that infected me with HCV (although this was the 1970s and I was far from being dx'd), I woke up and realized I didn't like who I was and where I was going. So I laid it all down and walked away and never looked back. I don't miss any of it, never have, but I've often wondered if I wouldn't long since be dead from cirrhosis if I hadn't. >>I have never been an alcoholic and since 40, I didn't drink much at all - >>it must wasn't worth being slowed down the next day. [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > but I've often wondered if I wouldn't long since be dead from cirrhosis if > I hadn't. I had a similar experience, also before diagnosis, but it was more of a non-event. One day, it simply didn't occur to me to have a drink, and that was followed by more days that it didn't occur to me to have a drink. It was probably weeks before someone asked me when I had "quit drinking" and I remember being perplexed that I hadn't realized that I had, and that I hadn't suffered any withdrawl from alcohol. Sometimes, our bodies step in to look after us when we need it most. Spidey |
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