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Did you ever know and care about someone who drank themselves to liver failure? My SIL has done this and he is alive but could die anytime if he drinks, takes Tylenol, eats salt, fails to take his meds and vitamins, or he could die just bc his liver quits.
I’m feeling all sorts of ways bc this is self inflicted yet he is the father of 2 great kids 7&8 and they love him. On one hand if he dies no more of the BS that comes with alcoholic behavior but the other is he is a human being and we want to save him. He can’t even admit he caused this. The Salvation Army has agreed to let him in the rehab program which goes 6 months. I hope he sticks with it. He’s 38 years old. Would you pray for a stranger named Jake and his family please?
Praying for Jake's total recovery and for healing of the family.🙏🤍
Share with him about the Carnivore diet. It has been rumored to help people on the health and mental side drinking behavior. Some people have talked about how carnivore way of eating helped them reduced want need desire for alcohol. Also “fasting” heals a liver according to the carnivore/fasting community. Because they drink instead of eat the liver is overwhelmed and the brain is overwhelmed, kind of makes sense? How can the brain cope and the body repair itself without food? To see more about carnivore diet and fasting Ken Berry for carnivore and Jason Fung MD. Both have You Tube channels. Dr Berry practitioner in Nashville. And Dr Fung in Toronto. Dr Salidino also.
Jesus loves Jake, and so do I. God Bless him.
Prayer sent.
So sorry for you and your grandkids. Very sad.
My deepest sympathies. You've just described my father. Nothing ever worked, and he never accepted he was responsible. We all begged him to get help. He went to one meeting. Refused to go back. He was never a violent drunk. Just fell asleep. At the end his liver and his brain were shot. The doctor estimated he had the mental capacity of a 15 year old the last time we could convince him to go. My mother eventually divorced him to save her sanity and he moved out. He died about a year after moving out when he slipped in the bathroom and hit his head on the toilet. He bled out on the floor, and it was a few days before anyone found him.
Luckily my sister, my brother and myself were all over 18 by the time the end came. Just remember he must be in a lot of pain. This life takes its toll on all of us.