Alcoholic Daze

The next morning on 6 September at breakfast-time we got a call from the hospital to say that Greg had been transferred to the Intensive Car...

On 5 September 2008, Greg was due to have the angiogram and angioplasty. We were told to report to the hospital at 7.30 am , so that they...

We are now coming very close to the point in my story, when I shall eventually catch up with the present day. .... August 2008 - Once I ha...

A lot of Kay's friends are turning 18 at the moment and she has been busy several evenings this week making birthday cakes to take into ...

The run-up to Kay's expedition to Central America in July 2008 totally passed Greg by. He showed no interest whatsoever in anything we ...

This morning I have just done a three-hour work-out and am now collapsing in front of the computer to have a bit of a breather. There was mu...

Around about this time in May, the Alcoholic Advisory Centre (AAC), where Greg went for counselling, contacted me. They were considering sta...

I was very nervous. I was not comfortable about sharing my private life with the school, particularly to tell them that Kay's father was...

By May 2008, Greg was impossible to live with. He was back to all the old tricks again...not washing, dressing in clothes that were so shabb...

Greg was fine for the funeral. He had seen his mother an hour or so after her death and had come to terms with her passing. In many ways it ...

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. Who has not read the Ode to Autumn by John Keats? If not, you can access it here . I am always ama...

For the next four weeks after detox, Greg managed remarkably well. I could see he was using coping mechanisms that he had learned at the cli...

The detox clinic was apparently run on a strict regime . Absolutely no visitors at all at any time... to avoid banned substances being smug...

The detox was done in early February. Greg was in a really bad state by the time the date came. His personal appearance was more like that o...

My story continues..... Eventually, in November 2007, Greg went to see Matt at the Alcohol Advisory Centre and agreed to detox. He felt so r...

This week has been rather manic and I have been flitting about like a mosquito on heat. So much so that I have not had time to blog or read ...

Yesterday the hospital transferred Greg to the Intensive Care Unit. It seems they were concerned for his neurological state and a chest infe...

The chronology of my blog is all over the place at the moment, dipping back into the past to tell my story, yet writing in the present too w...

Kay is back to school for her final year and things are slowly going back to the normal daily routine. It is such a long time since I contin...

My head is buzzing with all the photos (600 of them!!) and stories Kay has been regaling us with since her return from Central America. She ...