In the end we got him to hospital under order. He was no longer deemed competent to make that decision. The paramedics had to threaten to call the police if he didn’t get on the stretcher. He finally relinquished.
His kidneys had started failing due to the toxins. The hospital worked tirelessly to get his liver to start working so that the could start to treat his kidneys. There was signs of hope. He was awake more and talking but still confused and in pain. But then his lungs started failing. After 6 days there was nothing more they could do.
I watched my husband and father of my child die and there was nothing I could do. I had to tell his elderly mother. It is all kinds of awful. I wish I didn’t feel this grief, I wish I wasn’t mad at him for not fighting to get sober and I wish he hadn’t left a teenager without his father.
A 45 year old man drunk himself to death and it will never be ok.