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MikeH

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I am trying to get back into the spirit of it all this morning. Maybe immersion in family the next two days will do it.

I went to a memorial service last night, the saddest, most tragic I have ever been involved with. A beautiful young woman about my daughter's age (29), who I have watched grow up in our church from an infant, taught in Bible classes, known her parents for many years, who just could not overcome alcohol addiction.

After numerous times in rehab, at least two extended stays in the hospital with life-threatening condtions, she finally succumbed to the posion. In the end she went into the hospital with severe cramping from internal bleeding. As I waited with her parents night before last, her blood had become so acidic that her blood vessels could not contain it any more. Bleeding from ears, eyes, nose, mouth, throat, and who knows where internally, she went through 10 units of blood in a few hours.

She left behind two young sons with a father who is, to put it charitably, not prepared to care for them.

Of all the deaths I have witnessed over the years, including both my parents, for some reason this one has hit me the hardest. Maybe it is because of the waste of it all.
 
What a sad, sad loss. The impact you feel is understandable for the reasons you've mentioned... a life, full of potential is lost, apparently without reason. I will pray for her, and that God will give you grace and comfort, if not an understanding of reasons for this.

In this season, I pray that you will find the true peace that only God can bring. Enjoy your own family and cherish them as you would also, the lost young lady.

God blesses.

Tim
 
Bummer man. I look at it as now in the after life she is finally cured of her affliction and can pass on and maybe reincarnate as a beautiful bird and rise above it all
 
Sorry to hear this.I know what it feels like to watch someone slowly kill themselves,& be powerless over it.I lost a sister & an aunt from alcoholism.

Please accept my condolences to the family & loved ones.
 
Of all the times of year to face another death
perhaps this day is not the worst.

A celebration of new-born hope,
followed soon by a new-born year,
a cycle showing us how life can cope
despite death's lingering pain and fear.

Turn to family for your own support,
and support her family in their greater loss.
 
Wow. All I can offer is a internet hug. You sound like a good person.
 
For those of us who have seen the damage first hand, it is easy
to call alcohol the WORST drug.
 
Deepest sympathies and prayers inbound brother. Words are not a proper vehicle of expression at times like these, so I'll just say God Bless...Jim
 
My heart goes out to you.

Look for the good in life and nurture it.

Help those that need a hand and know that sometimes it will not always turn out the way it should.

I hope you do use the strength of family to help you cope through the holiday season - it helps me immensely.
 
Mike,

You have my sympathy. Life was designed to be a struggle either emotionally, physically, or both, so we stay close to Him.

God bless,

Chris
 
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