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COMMENT 246585P	2012-01-06 08:37 AM
Thanks for a great report, Roger. Be well. Pooh too. I used to feel safe walking down the hill to Loreto Plaza and all over State Street but now it is like playing Russian Roulette on the crosswalk at the bottom of San Roque Road. One day an irate driver shook his fist at me as I was crossing. Guess i was not going fast enough for him. .
COMMENT 246598P	2012-01-06 08:58 AM
Roger, If a person is a bad alcoholic and all of a sudden that person has no alcohol in their body they are at risk of severe withdrawal from the alchohol if they are not getting medical treatment. Severe alcohol withdrawal can be brutal, with fever, vomiting and seizures. If the person already has a heart condition it would be made worse in withdrawal.
ROGER DODGER	2012-01-06 09:13 AM
@598P I know all about alcohol withdrawl I am an alcoholic and I have had withdrawls, seizures, fever, vomiting, the dry heaves like you wouldn't believe. Alcohol poisioning UGH! I have also passed out drunk in the snow being from the Chicago area gone home and taken hot showers. I got frost bite from being out in the cold all night in Bufflio N.Y. when I was a runaway kid. My leg was a deep dark red and blueish color. True. But if Stephen was such a bad alcoholic how come there was no alcohol in his system? Bad Alcoholics drink everyday I did for years.
COMMENT 246598P	2012-01-06 09:19 AM
Perhaps he was out of money and failed to be able to panhandle any money as well. Perhaps he was accidentally sober.
ROGER DODGER	2012-01-06 11:11 AM
That's what I thought you really don't care.
COMMENT 246683	2012-01-06 12:03 PM
This post of Roger's is much easier to read, so I read it this time. Thank you, Roger.
COMMENT 246585P	2012-01-06 04:52 PM
82 I second that. Bravo Roger. An alcoholic's breakfast is a bottle of gin which lasts until lunch when the serious drinking begins. As in Richard Burton and Christopher Hitchens. Both died too young. Glad you stopped, Roger.
ROGER DODGER	2012-01-06 07:14 PM
I used to steal a bottle of gin every morning from a fella that stashed one in the metal storage box next to the maintence shack near Amtrak, next to Mission creek 30 years ago. Mid morning was a 12 pack of Budweiser with the cement workers by the end of the day several of us would have acouple cases then it was time for some Hobo stew on the side of the tracks, and some Jack or Jim Beam. I just keep drinking till I passed out here or there everywhere. Next morning back to the maintence shack, and the employment office. If you could keep pace with Big Red on a job you were worth your weight in salt. Miss Big Red I think he's been gone awhile. And the rest of those crazy guys..
COMMENT 246974P	2012-01-07 03:04 PM
Roger I like your humor--but totally readable Roger!!!A gift!!

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