Morning all.
Some of you may have read that my MIL was seriously ill. This morning around 2am she succumbed to her ailments and passed away peacefully. This woman was as much a second Mother to me and major force in the family that we are all devastated, despite knowing it was a certainty.
It's times like these where things are really tough going (family bereavement, dodgy car, returning to work after illness and general stresses) where I would easily be able to justify having a drink to celebrate a life and to calm the soul to let me deal with everything else.
In the past, knowing that by doing so will probably at the very least put me back in hospital and at worst kill me didn't matter; somehow I just got through it and dealt with the consequences.
But this time it's different, knowing FOR SURE drinking might very well kill me is enough of a deterrent not to do it, and that being strong and on the ball for my daughter, my wife and her family is what is important.
What happens next scares me. I have carried more coffins to crematoriums and gravesides than I care to recall but this is different.
Such a powerful woman, a fighter who let nothing stand in her way, someone that controlled a room the moment she walked into it but had the respect to be humble and have the humility to make sure others were spot on before herself.
A mother, grandmother, sister, mother in law and one of the most resilient human beings I've had the privilege of knowing.
Sleep easy maw in law; I love and miss you dearly.
Peace!
Hubby update, saw Hepatology Registrar 
Worried about my mum!
Alcoholic Mother. Stage 3 Decompensated. Now drinking...again
Mum in hospital.. Acute alcoholic hepatitis and failing kidneys
How does a person find out the degree of severity of their liver disease/cirrhosis?
