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|  03-01-2013, 10:48 AM | #1 | 
| polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire 
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			Going to have my last drink tomorrow. Why last drink? Well, you know about my liver issues. I've now been referred to a consultant. It is teh serious. No more "mostly" abstinent, Why tomorrow? Tcha. I only found out today. If chucking it all in was that easy I wouldn't have a problem. What decision am I asking for help with? I'm not really. But it has to be my last drink. Sorry to be dramatic but we are talking about serious health issues here. I don't have cirrhosis... yet. Doc says that is the next step. Previously they've just talked about cutting down. Not any more. I want something chococlate-y. Cocktail-y. Thick. Yumyum. I will let you kow. If'n I make it through the next two days (!) I'd love to hrear your choice, if you had to make it. 
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|  03-01-2013, 11:11 AM | #2 | 
| ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA 
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			I like margaritas.  But that seems like more of a summer drink.
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|  03-01-2013, 11:37 AM | #3 | 
| Glutton for Gluttony Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Tampa, FL 
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			Good luck, Sundae.  For my last drink I'd choose a rum runner or a Bahama mama. Something fruity and rum based. | 
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|  03-01-2013, 11:40 AM | #4 | |
| We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire 
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			A triple Jack D, straight, no ice. or a baileys. 
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|  03-01-2013, 12:28 PM | #5 | 
| Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia 
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			And for your first drink day after tomorrow: a Bhang Lassi
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|  03-01-2013, 12:41 PM | #6 | |
| We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire 
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			Lurve lassi. Plain or mango.
		 
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|  03-01-2013, 01:17 PM | #7 | 
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|  03-01-2013, 01:43 PM | #8 | 
| polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire 
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			Had Baileys with Mum last night.  Yummeh! And yes, I do love a lassi. Not mango though. Or salted. 
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|  03-01-2013, 02:03 PM | #9 | |
| We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire 
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			Hahahah. K, I only just realised what Bhang lassi was :p Have heard the term bhang before, but hadn't connected the dots :P
		 
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|  03-01-2013, 02:07 PM | #10 | 
| polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire 
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			Share!  I don't know what Bhang is either\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ (Diz contributed to this post) 
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|  03-01-2013, 02:39 PM | #12 | 
| polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire 
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			Gotcha.  You cheeky Toad.
		 
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|  03-01-2013, 04:01 PM | #13 | 
| Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian Join Date: Oct 2006 
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			Last drink? A nice single malt like Glenlivet Nadurra or The Macallan 18. Although it sounds like you're describing a Mudslide ...  But more importantly - sorry to hear about your test results, Sundae. 
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|  03-01-2013, 06:06 PM | #14 | 
| Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia 
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			If'n it's not too late, I suggest ... Don't indulge in the "last drink" attitude. You're making a break, make it clean. Don't be dragged reluctantly into your healthier future, walk boldly into it and embrace it. If you want to do something dramatic, go (with a friend/witness) to a bar, order a glass of whatever, then look the drink square in the eye and pour it down the sink. "I will NOT drink you! You have no power over me. IT ENDS HERE! " Then tap your heels together three times and say "I want to go home with David Tennant". That ought to do it. 
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|  03-01-2013, 08:08 PM | #15 | 
| trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia 
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			Nice Zen.  I like where you're head's at!  That's pretty much what I did when I gave up smoking.  I had just bought a new packet, all the while telling myself I had to stop.  I even got so far as removing the foil and started taking one out.  Then I got a picture in my mind of my Mum who at that point had only a few days to live, and my boys telling me not to smoke and I took all of them out of the packet, ripped their heads off and flushed the tobacco parts down the toilet and the filters went in the bin. I have never so much as bummed a smoke since that day. Not even taken a drag from a friends cigarette. It is very liberating to know that you can just walk away, and believe me, it can be done. It's all in the mind. As to my last drink. If it came to that for me, I'd make mine a very nice Sav Blanc. Who knows what sort. There are so many good ones out there these days, but that's what it'd be. I'd be sitting in my front yard at the picnic table with the BBQ cooking a nice steak. A nice salad in front of my, and some nice cheese and crackers. I would savour that wine. Make it last, and smile after the last sip. Then I'd move on.   
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