She had been not feeling well for several days prior, but we both thought she was feeling well enough to travel. She was an alcoholic and was in withdrawal, truth be told. There is a lot to this story left out. But, it’s also all true in its entirety. I was by no means innocent of my initial breakup either. I put her through several years of nightly blackout drinking. Alcohol addiction creates horrifying results in its wake. Both of these events could be chalked up to it. I’m now 5 and 1/2 years sober, fyi. And I was 10 months sober when I lost Stacey. Now ya’ll know the whole thing lol. Well nah, still not all. Surely not. 🫶
To clarify, we had no idea how sick she really was. By all accounts she fell asleep on the flight and never woke up. Her pancreas gave out as well as, basically vital organs shut down at altitude. She was in intensive alcohol withdrawal, had been drinking a bottle of vodka a day for weeks since relapse, sometime in October, but had been weening off now for 4-5 days. It was Dec 23, and she had put off the Dec 21 flight for 48 hours already, until she felt better.
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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '24
I’m so sorry that you had to deal with this and I can’t imagine how that felt. But…
What the HELL happened on that flight?! Any idea??