My eldest brother is 50 and lives with my mother who has just turned 75. He has been an alcoholic for the past 10yrs plus, but we have only found this out in the last year. Since we found out he has had two dry spells one of 5 mths and one of 3mths. He has been in hospital a couple of times due to damage to his liver and also injured himself very badly at new year , when he fell down my mothers stairs whilst drunk and split his head open. I found him unconscious and bleeding heavily at the bottom of the stairs still clutching a bottle of wine, my mother and my 6yrs old dd witnessed all of this. I was just glad I was their to call the ambulance ad clear up the blood my poor mum was in pieces. I live 300 miles away from my mum's so only visit every couple of months. My brother is a lovely gentle, highly intelligent person who would never physically harm my mother and when he is sober he does lots of jobs round the house for her, like any decent son would. My problem is that I don't think it's fair that he stays at my mothers if he is going to continue to drink. But equally my mother would be devastated if he were to be kicked out.
Basically should he stay or shopuld he go?