During my free periods my Girlfriend received a call from her Mum in tears explaining how her uncle was in hospital. The man has an addiction to alcohol, so my presumption was that his liver had packed. Got down to the A&E and his face was all disfigured.
Apparently he'd been off alcohol and starved it. He had a blackout in the doctors surgery while signing on for a rehabilitation class (the irony!), fallen and smashed his face up.
He's fine and just needs his features sorted and they'll throw in some rehab to make sure it doesn't happen again.
What angered me if anything, is that he's abused alcohol so much that he's now in this state. I know it's a demon an all, but that just screams a lack of self discipline to me. He's now wasting the time of hospital staff and resources for something that could have been prevented. It's just a case of uneducation on his part. His Dad, my Girlfriend's Grandad made a comment along the lines of "my Dad drunk more than that, and he never ended up like this", and that just did it for me. I know we don't make assumptions in this modern society, but I couldn't believe the ignorance presented from the generations behind the bed curtain! Complete unawareness of the affects of alcohol and it was a real eye opener.