That sounds scary before you even know what it is. It’s more common name is “Wet Brain” Syndrome, dementia brought on by excessive consumption of alcohol.

As a recovering alcoholic, I come across sick people every day. Now I know of someone with “wet brain”. He’s hospitalized right now. I knew him when he had a long period of sobriety, even taught in a “12 Steps In 4 Weeks” Recovery Class. That seems ages ago. The last time I saw him he was a driving a van at a recovery house, that brought the newly sober to meetings. That was after he started drinking again and could barely string together a few weeks.

And now, he’s in a nursing home, and they’re housing him and tracking the downward spiral.

I learned this from his ex-wife, who is also an addict/alcoholic. Right now, she has 19 months , is working to become a peer counselor. She lost her nursing license because she used. She even convinced a gynecologist to perform a hysterectomy on her, so she could get the pain medicine.

This is a world a lot of you don’t know about. Sometimes I wish I didn’t.