Re: Pat Ritter. Books
Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2018 10:29 pm
'Confessions of an alcoholic' - Page 102:
His memory reflected back to the many times a person was arrested for drunkenness and placed in a cell. He imagined how lucky he had been never to witness a person having a seizure whilst in custody. He knew of investigations of ‘deaths in custody’ when people had taken their own lives or died whilst in police custody. He could now only imagine WHY these people would have taken their own lives or died from swallowing their own vomit.
His outlook on life suddenly changed. He couldn’t correct the past, but he certainly could try his best to make improvements for the future. All he wanted to do was to learn as much as he was able to learn in the shortest available time for him to understand this new strange phenomenon.
He consistently asked questions from nurses and doctors for information, so he could understand reasoning, why people allowed themselves to drink alcohol to just a degree to make themselves so sick and helpless. A common reply was, ‘they’ll do something about it when the ‘penny drops’’
He thought back to when he stopped drinking alcohol on the 13th January 1977 when ‘his penny dropped’. His decision to stop on that day was a milestone to acknowledge for the remainder of his life. He realised how lucky a person he was to have had Ada, who’d shown the courage and personal conviction to tell him she was going to leave him with their children if he didn’t do something about his drinking. No person should need to put up with that type of behaviour or lifestyle.
To purchase this book: click here: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/7688:
His memory reflected back to the many times a person was arrested for drunkenness and placed in a cell. He imagined how lucky he had been never to witness a person having a seizure whilst in custody. He knew of investigations of ‘deaths in custody’ when people had taken their own lives or died whilst in police custody. He could now only imagine WHY these people would have taken their own lives or died from swallowing their own vomit.
His outlook on life suddenly changed. He couldn’t correct the past, but he certainly could try his best to make improvements for the future. All he wanted to do was to learn as much as he was able to learn in the shortest available time for him to understand this new strange phenomenon.
He consistently asked questions from nurses and doctors for information, so he could understand reasoning, why people allowed themselves to drink alcohol to just a degree to make themselves so sick and helpless. A common reply was, ‘they’ll do something about it when the ‘penny drops’’
He thought back to when he stopped drinking alcohol on the 13th January 1977 when ‘his penny dropped’. His decision to stop on that day was a milestone to acknowledge for the remainder of his life. He realised how lucky a person he was to have had Ada, who’d shown the courage and personal conviction to tell him she was going to leave him with their children if he didn’t do something about his drinking. No person should need to put up with that type of behaviour or lifestyle.
To purchase this book: click here: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/7688: