That's a lot of beer Tom. Whatever the reason you stopped. Raise that water bottle up and here's to your health!!!

 

Holy cow Tom. That is a lot of alcohol. Congrats on kicking that.

 

You're not getting old. You're getting wise.

And Jim's right you added years to your life making that change.

 

That is a lot of beer Tom. I agree about picking up the water bottle too. Heck, you see what Wolf had happen to him. All jokes aside, you did the right thing.

As a sidenote, there's a local that I deal with frequently. Last time I had to pick him up, he was on his 84th beer for the day and this was about 11:30PM. No BS...seriously. He never stops. .08 is legally DUI in VA. His maintenance level is right around a .20. That night in particular, his BAC was .56. He should have been dead at around a .40 but he was walking and talking. There was no mistake in the test either...it was a blood draw at the hospital and they checked it twice. I also checked him on an Alco-sensor. It's absolutely destroying him inside and out. He's in his 30s right now and his liver is all but gone. The docs have told him if he stopped drinking right now, he might make it another 3-5 years.

Keep drinking that water old buddy. It's a lot better for you, you won't forget anything you did while you were drinking it, and you won't get hungover from it.

 

well Jim, i stopped drinking because of few different things.
my best friend pretty much drank himself to death.
another very old friend climbed into the bottle, and almost died.

i was spending on average $50 per night in bars. and that don't count the bottles of whiskey i used to drink like water with the beer.
i drank half my life away, and had nothing to show for it but an empty life. and i did not like the people i was associating with, or the person i became.

so i decided enough was enough, and walked away from all my "friends". once i sobered up a bit i realized all those "friends" were just using me as a means of free booze.

that was 9 years ago, and i made drastic changes in my life. i for all intents and purposes quit drinking. i would only drink on weekends, and then it was only on nights i did not have to work the next day.
after a year or so, i just decided i did not need to drink any more, and quit all together, with the exception of a beer or mixed drink once in a blue moon.


then 2 years later, the past 25 years caught up with me, and i had a heart attack, and 2 years after that had a mini stroke.


since i changed my ways, i have dropped my blood pressure to a point where it is actually almost too low now, and i try to no longer let anything bother me.
my health has improved to the point where i only take preventative meds for my heart, even though i can not get below 295 lbs.



damn. i started rambling again.

 

Tom thats how I used to drink when I was in high school haha, but those days are long gone now!

 

i know some people like that too John. they are 30-35, but the drink and drugs makes them look 75-80. their "sober" BAC is somewhere around .20 and .25

 

Rambling no way man. Letting your friends that care about you know a little more about yourself. That is outstanding that you realized that it was a problem and did something about it. Too often people stop before it's to late or they don't stop at all.
I take my hat off to you for taking the steps needed to insure your health. Congrats brother! The weight will come off.

 

You are exactly right...the combination kills them. Weird thing about this guy is he doesn't do drugs but drinks like a fish and he's around 5'11" and about 185 lbs.

I couldn't have said it better Jim!

 

Amen, I lost two brothers to failed livers. I have not had a drink in about.... well I dont remember over a year maybe two. Wait I had a beer with Tom aka lostmybeer a few weeks back.

Anyway I don't drink very much anymore either.

So hang around awhile Tom and have another water. I'm with ya.

me and and buddy drank about a case or two a night years ago. let just say the paperboy loved us. Kid comes to the door and asked if he could clean up the beer cans we had out back, he was trying to get a new X-bowhat ever they were back then)we said sure take them.




seen him a few weeks later and he told us he got the system and three games.


We were the only house he went to to collect can's






Ed

 

i ain't too sure about that. i weighed 220 when i was 16


i have always been big. it is just now starting to switch from muscle to fat as i am getting older.

 

I'm going home good night everyone.



see ya tomorrow.

Ed

 

Have a good night Ed!

 

See 'ya Ed!

 

about 15 years ago, we did a cleanup of the back yard shed. there was a summers worth of crushed beer cans in there.
we ended up taking just about 475 lbs of beer cans in at 75 cents per lb, and got $356 for them.


that scale ticket was one of the few things i saved from back then to remind me of how much we actually drank.

we used to run 2 to 3 hundred lbs of glass beer and whiskey bottles every 2 months or so to the glass plant down the road a piece to sell. besides what we did with the recycled cans