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<blockquote data-quote="Bada-Bing!" data-source="post: 1013094" data-attributes="member: 70552"><p>Good to share experiences.</p><p></p><p>I do remember Ncurd and that is such a tragic story. It must have been very painful for you and your family to lose her like that. We are all adults here at the end of the day and have a choice to make, but when it gets to that level of drinking it is a disease and no amount of trying to persuade her to stop would make a difference. I hope you don't blame yourself for it. This liver specialist is saying how quickly it can deteriorate, which sounds like what happened in your mum's case?</p><p></p><p>Scroll to 5 mins 50 secs of below video.</p><p></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]ab5zCIfWeMs:348[/MEDIA]</p><p></p><p></p><p>Growing up as an ethnic minority in this country I have seen both sides of the drinking and non-drinking culture in this country. Neither of my parents' drink and my sister doesn't either; so family wise I didn't come from a culture of drinking per se. But growing up I would drink to fit in and certainly binged on nights out well in excess of 6 units, but not so much now. I may have a beer mid-week and then a few at the weekend, but certainly under 14 units now.I am very moderate now compared to a lot of my friends and only really beers; not into spirits or wine. Don't know if having the Asian flush gene has stopped me from being a heavy drinker - basically, I don't have the enzyme in my liver to process alcohol properly like a lot of Southeast Asian descent, which leads to getting a red face quite easily. But it doesn't stop me from enjoying a beer and just make sure I line my stomach with food or drink with a meal.</p><p></p><p>But yeh remember a mate at school telling me his parents would regularly polish off a bottle of wine each night during the week. And then more at the weekend, which I found quite shocking at the time because worked out that they would easily be polishing off 100 units a week on a regular basis and whether that was reflected in a lot of white middle-class families. My best friend's grandmother died from alcoholism. And he was a heavy drinker at Uni he would estimate drinking around 80 units a week back then. But now settled down with family so probably not so much now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bada-Bing!, post: 1013094, member: 70552"] Good to share experiences. I do remember Ncurd and that is such a tragic story. It must have been very painful for you and your family to lose her like that. We are all adults here at the end of the day and have a choice to make, but when it gets to that level of drinking it is a disease and no amount of trying to persuade her to stop would make a difference. I hope you don't blame yourself for it. This liver specialist is saying how quickly it can deteriorate, which sounds like what happened in your mum's case? Scroll to 5 mins 50 secs of below video. [MEDIA=youtube]ab5zCIfWeMs:348[/MEDIA] Growing up as an ethnic minority in this country I have seen both sides of the drinking and non-drinking culture in this country. Neither of my parents' drink and my sister doesn’t either; so family wise I didn't come from a culture of drinking per se. But growing up I would drink to fit in and certainly binged on nights out well in excess of 6 units, but not so much now. I may have a beer mid-week and then a few at the weekend, but certainly under 14 units now.I am very moderate now compared to a lot of my friends and only really beers; not into spirits or wine. Don’t know if having the Asian flush gene has stopped me from being a heavy drinker - basically, I don’t have the enzyme in my liver to process alcohol properly like a lot of Southeast Asian descent, which leads to getting a red face quite easily. But it doesn’t stop me from enjoying a beer and just make sure I line my stomach with food or drink with a meal. But yeh remember a mate at school telling me his parents would regularly polish off a bottle of wine each night during the week. And then more at the weekend, which I found quite shocking at the time because worked out that they would easily be polishing off 100 units a week on a regular basis and whether that was reflected in a lot of white middle-class families. My best friend’s grandmother died from alcoholism. And he was a heavy drinker at Uni he would estimate drinking around 80 units a week back then. But now settled down with family so probably not so much now. [/QUOTE]
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