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I had a similar friend. Vodka was her drug of choice, too. For a time in my life, she was the best friend anyone could have. I first knew her through work as she was spiraling downward.
I don't understand. You decided to become best friends with someone you met who was in a downward spiral?
I don't understand. You decided to become best friends with someone you met who was in a downward spiral?
No. She was a work friend when I first knew her, and she left when they told her to go to the EAP. There was a group of us who were all in the same department and were friends who socialized at lunch and eventually outside of work.
Did not hear from her for several years after visiting her once after she left the job and realizing she was in bad shape. We assumed that the next time we'd hear anything, it would be news of her death. However, she reached out to us at work when she was sober for more than a year. I was going through a divorce, and THAT'S when we became best friends. She even lived with my daughter and me when she was going through treatment for non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. Then after she was done with chemo, she started drinking again.
A good friend of mine buried his brother just last week. The brother was an alcoholic in his 50s, and left behind two kids in high school. It's not a good way to live or die. He was in the ICU several times in the last years, got kicked out of the house, and needed help getting back and forth to the bathroom at times.
1 liter = 33.8 ounces so roughly 2 pints + a little
When I drink I can handle 2 pints of beer, enjoy it and feel it
It's hard to imagine 2 pints of vodka being enjoyable? Maybe built up tolerance and dependence?
If you drink this way regularly I would speculate a lifespan shortened by decades and an uncomfortable end of life experience ahead.
Since you are asking, hopefully you will stop.
Jeez. If I drank two pints of beer, I'd be clinging desperately to the floor praying I don't slide off. I can't imagine drinking a whole liter of vodka.
I drink 1 liter of vodka when I drink. Do you think it is too much?
Well, as someone who developed a serious alcohol problem do I think it's too much? That's your call.
But could I have finished off a liter of vodka? Yes, if I started drinking during the day. I probably couldn't have polished off a liter if I started say 7- 8 p.m. However, around noon or earlier... no problem.
I liked vodka (100% proof) and my m.o. if I had the day off was to drink, take a nap and started up again later.
If it looked like I would finish the bottle I would go to the store before I ran out. Don't recall ever finishing off two liters in a single day/evening but 1.5 liters...yes
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