Part 3: Hope, With Edges I left off with My Guy in the ICU. Yesterday I got up at 4:30 in the morning so that I could take my time getting ready to leave by 6am to get there for 7:30. I didn’t want to rush. I wanted to be calm. I needed to call…
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My Family Legacy of Alcohol-My Son
Part 2: What We Still Didn’t See In 2023, I learned that my oldest son had an alcohol addiction. We call it Alcohol Use Disorder now—AUD. It sounds more clinical, more manageable somehow. But there is nothing manageable about watching it take hold of someone you love. I didn’t learn about it gradually. There was…
My Family Legacy of Alcohol – Origin
Over 100 years of alcoholism shaped my family—and for most of my life, we didn’t even see it.