re: Anyone been to rehab?

I spent 7 months in a rehab in 2019. Alcohol, not opiates like the majority of other people who were there (did my fair share of that too but never got addicted). Got to the point where I was having seizures if I didn’t drink liquor at least every 4 hours. Liver basically stopped working, diagnosed with cirrhosis, was bed ridden for weeks. I was in my late 20’s for reference on how hard I went, getting alcoholic cirrhosis in your 20’s is quite the achievement. Haven’t drank in 2 years now. It’s a lot easier to quit drinking when you know your liver is so bad that if you start again you would probably have just weeks before it failed. Also learned that dying from a failing liver takes a long time and is quite agonizing. Got lucky though, my gastro doc tells me that since I stopped when I was young and my liver recovered better than expected, I should be able to live normally for the next ~30ish years before I might have serious problems again. That’s a far cry from when I first showed up at the hospital looking yellow like Homer Simpson and heard the word “transplant” being thrown around.