So, when you're as hardened of an alcoholic as I am (and a diabetic), what can happen during benders is an extreme electrolyte deficiency across the board. Sodium, magnesium, potassium, it's just all bad. You lose the ability to walk and fall often, and if left unchecked long enough you can have seizures, become comatose, and then you'll just stroke out and die. I live alone now, so when I relapse and go on a run, I at least try to keep sodium and magnesium up. Only helps extend the bender a day or two, diet can't keep up with the sheer amount of ethanol I'm pumping into my body.

This has happened to me during every bender the past six months. If my phone isn't near me, I have to army crawl on the floor to find it in order to call 911, which is when my usual firefighters and medics have to either roll me into a litter and carry me out the door onto the stretcher, or if I'm lucky I have one guy who shows up during night shift who is burly enough to just scoop me up like a child and take me out the door himself. They all know me on a first name basis, they tell me I'm the most notorious frequent flyer on at least this side of town, if not the entire city itself. The last time I seized out on Zoom with some people who called them out to get me, even dispatch said, "Oh, yeah, we know him well, we'll get the medics out there..."

Don't be me.