I'd forget the letters altogether.

you have to figure, anyone who drank like a fish all their life has been being told to change and stop all their life too.

and it has never helped. i do know, it'll make a person like that really angry hearing it from the (snot faced) kid though.

forget the letters.

my dad is actually in rehab at the moment. He broke his leg again.. at age 79... gave up drinking for the most part but still falls in now and then... then he falls down and breaks his leg. He's done it repeatedly the past several years. Darn leg is a metal post by now. He crashed his car through the garage wall into the bathroom a couple years ago.

He's real nice when he's sober is all I'll say. My poor brother has been down there taking care of him for months. But this last incident was too much for the doctors I guess so... since he always comes in blasted with broken bones they are making sure he stays on the wagon this time. when they release him from the hospital end of the week they are sending a social worker to check up on him to make sure he isn't drinking. He's stuck this time, cannot drive to get the beer or whiskey.

My poor brother is delighted with the idea.

leave it in mum's hands Sunshine. teach her, it maybe will rub off on him.

both my parents drank so at least you have mum to talk to. My mother thought anything outside of mainstream medicine was hysterical funny, even dangerous. Till she was on her deathbed from mainstream medicine.

c'est la vie.