I've name changed for this as I don't want it linked to my previous posts.
I'm a dog walker and I've been walking the dog of an alcoholic 5-7 days a week for the last eighteen months. The lady in question had been sober for several months when she first contacted me but over the last year she's gotten worse and worse.
I've walked in on suicide attempts.
I've walked in on her having messed the bed and vomited over herself and the floor.
I've walked in (after being on holiday) to a house with bottles hidden everywhere and dog mess all over as the little dog hadn't been walked the entire time I was off.
I've called ambulances multiple times.
The most recent binge led to yet another hospital admission and this time they've discovered permanent damage to her pancreas and won't be releasing her back home - she's moving into a care facility and her dog is being re-homed. Her family are organising all this. I'd love to take the dog myself but I have my own dog, cats and a business to run and I just don't have the time or energy to cope with settling her with us.
I don't really know what I want from this thread except to say I feel a real sense of relief that I don't have to deal with this anymore. I hope that doesn't make me sound awful but I hated not knowing what I was going to walk into each day and whether she'd even be alive when I opened the door.
Anyway thank you for reading if you got this far 