A personal account of a woman's experience with her mother's alcoholism and the impact it had on their relationship.
I would start to dread phone calls from her I can’t pinpoint the moment when my mum’s drinking changed. She always liked a tipple. It was something normal up north where my family was from – everybody had a drink in the evenings. But over the course of a year, my mum went from having a brandy before bed, to drinking from the minute she woke up in the morning until she fell into a drunken slumber at night. It literally felt like overnight she went from having one empty bottle next to her to two.
But because she was drunk for every waking moment, she couldn’t remember day to day conversations we’d had or news I’d shared. Even when my uncle, Mum’s brother, was diagnosed with cancer during Christmas 2011, I was repeating the news to her daily. She was also constantly talking about things that hadn’t happened, like that my father had been to see her, but he had passed away in the 90s.
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