No College for MeCollege had to wait, my drinking left me without one College to attend. Time for me to mention I grew up in an Alcoholic Family. I had an Alcoholic father. He was a real Alcoholic, a real drunk. And inbetween his bouts with the bottle, then making up for lost time at work, he would make the decisions for his son's lives. I was the oldest and my father being the dominant parent he was decided what schools I would apply send my application to attend College. Let me name a the Colleges I applied to try and get accepted, Yale, Havard, Dartmouth, Middlebury College, Williams College, and as a back-up school, the University of Vermont.Guess what, I did not get into one college, with the exception of being on the "wait list" at University of Vermont. | Alcholism, Alcoholic, Alcoholic Problems, Alcoholic Drinking, AA, Recovering Alcoholic, Binge Drinking, Alcoholic Help, Alcoholic Symptoms, Alcoholism. |
And of course why was I not qualified in the least to attend any of the Universities I applied to - my Drinking. My grades we okay , my board scores were okay, but by no means was I qualified for an "Ivy League" University. My Dad went to Yale, so somehow in his Alcoholic haze he thought his oldest son would attend one of these prestigious Universities. Well, no way, I was not that kind of student. Drinking was my main focus Junior and Senior year of High School.
So what to do now? I spent te fall hanging around with a bunch of guys who were into "Cocaine." You know, the "duff" or the "blow," so we called it. Cocaine had a few more names as well, they will come to me later. Dealing drugs, drinking, smoking "weed" that was my year after High School. Until a friend of mine around New Year's asked me to drive to Colorado with him. He needed a partner to share the ride. I was all to happy to get out of "scene." I had the common sense to know the drug dealing of Cocaine was not a good thing. So I left town and headed for Colorado.
Once I got to Colorado I was 2000 miles from home and it was great. I was in the beautiful Rocky Mountains, I had my skis, and my gear. I was ready to ski and party. No one was there to stop me. And I had left the drug dealers behind. I was no longer part of that drug scene, cocaine, speed, crystal meth, all those street drugs that do no good but bring you down even faster. At least with "booze" the speed of your "freefall" into addiction is slowed without the drugs being part of the equation.
The cocaine and speed, just let you stay up all night or for days at a time and drink and drink and drink. Drinking alone without the aide of the heavy drugs on the side, at least at some point you have to pass-out from sheer consumption of alcohol. So that is what I did for a few months. I was 19 years of age. I was away from home. And I found a new set of friends who liked to drink. Besides the drinking we smoked some marijuana as well, but that just made you drunk and "high" at the same time. And all to vulnerable to drinking and passing-out somewhere. There is a limit to the amount of alcohol you can drink for the most part. And then your body, your system just shuts down and you have to find a bed and sleep. In my mind, I was actually acting in a healthy behavior. This is the mind of the Alcoholic. I was skiing during the day and drinking as much as I could at night. I was away from the hard drugs. I was Colorado and living a healthy lifestyle, just drinking and smoking "weed."
Now comes the fun part, still having to worry about my out-of-control Alcoholic parent. At one point my Alcoholic father was on a ( 4 ) week alcoholic-bender. Just drinking Scotch and Vodka strait for ( 4 ) weeks in a row. My Dad was not going to work, not doing anything but drinking. I began to fear for his Life. I had little or no money. I had a relative that bought me a plane ticket. I hitch-hiked down I-70 the main highway running east to west in Colorado, got a few rides and made it to the airport. I boarded a plane with the mission to rescue my father from his ( 4 ) week drunk and get him to an Alcohol Treatment program.
I got home on the East Coast, after flying from Colorado and my mission as I noted was to get my Drunken Alcoholic Parent to an Alcohol treatment program before he killed himself from Alcohol poisoning. I was really in fear for his life. No one else in the family seemed to be able to take care of my alcoholic father. I had to fly 2000 miles to try and get him to an Alcohol Treatment program. But as it turned-out, he was way past the point of admission to an Alcohol Rehab. my father needed to be in the Hospital into the Emergency room from the level of Alcohol in his system. This was not the first time I had driven him to an Alcohol rehab or a Hospital, far from it. This was probably the ( 30 ) or ( 40th ) time he had been to an Alcohol Rehab. My father drank so much his Alcohol Withdrawl Symptoms were so severe he needed to be hosptalized. It took me 3 or 4 days of pleading with him, all the while he is drinking more and more. finally he was too drunk to resist. Almost passed out we placed him in a car and took him to the Hospital to get help for his severe Alcoholism, and get him dried-out. I stayed around a few more days and I flew back to Colorado. I was back and having fun with my friends, skiing, drinking, smoking pot, and having a good time. After all I deserved it, having just rescued my Alcoholic father. After being back in Colorado a few days and calling home to see how he was doing, I learned that as soon as the Alcohol was out of his system, he left the Hospital and was back on the streets. I knew it would be a matter of a few weeks at most and he would be back drinking. Once my Dad caught up on his work at the office, he would reward himself by starting the drinking cycle all over again.
More about "Children of Alcoholics" and "Alcoholic Parents" later in the blog.........
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