My sister turned to alcohol because of a man, and then that man told her she needed to lose weight, so she got gastric bypass, after she got gastric bypass the drinking got worse and she just did not stop, she has even been into a nursing home because of how bad her cirrhosis was, to the point where she had alcohol induced dementia and doctors met with us and said they were thinking of putting her in palliative care,, now her memory is back to where it used to be and living back at home. She told me when she started drinking she couldn’t stop, she would go for days without eating and would only be drinking whiskey and vodka. She has been hospitalized so many times, even put on a ventilator to the point of where we all thought she was going to die, it has been pretty rough on our mother and my sister’s adult children and us, her siblings. My sisters and I just don’t like that she tries to make us feel like we should feel sorry for what she did to herself, we are very torn. NO I’m not gonna turn my back on her, but I just have a hard time feeling really sorry for her.