Illness In My Family

A member in my family has an illness, not like most illnesses that come to mind, such as cancer or other diseases. This illness affects my family 's lives. Most people don´t understand how it can affect others, but it does affect like how most sicknesses do. Many people suffer from this illness. This illness is called alcoholism.

I never did really understand why this occurred, mostly because I was so young at the time. My questions began when I was around six. I remember this event like it was yesterday. This family member had left to of course buy alcohol, and I was oblivious of what was happening. I had told my dad later ¨[This family member] had left me.¨

He had asked and this person responded with ¨Oh, she 's lying.¨ I cried, I

It turns out they had stayed sober for those thirty days then on the plane ride back relapsed and drank on the way home. When they got home I could tell they hadn’t changed, all my aunts knew something wasn’t right. They had come back and were the still the same person as before they had left. After being sent away, this person was mad at everyone. They would sometimes run away or one time stay in their room and I hadn’t seen them for about three weeks. I felt upset, I really thought things would have changed, but it stayed the same as before. I would still come home to the same events as before. Another time, my dad and I came home from track, when I walked into the kitchen I said “OH MY GOSH.” The dishwasher was flooding, it must have been since it was started. The family member was passed out in the living room from drinking too much, they must have started it wrong, causing it to flood the kitchen. This event was just one of the many I would have to deal with daily. These events ended around when I was in eighth grade, when this family member left. However most of them replay in my head and I tend to thing what I could do to have prevented them. I would pray and ask why this would happen to me and if I could do something to stop this, but I realized I