A mother was given just one day left to live after suffering multiple organ failure as a result of her intense alcoholism.
Charlotte Durcan says that her addiction started only three years ago, having up until then, been a non-drinker.
However, as a self-confessed "extremist", she went from nothing, to drinking three litres of vodka a day, Lancaster Live reports.
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"It's always everything is the furthest I can take it, in a sense. I was drinking really heavily and basically, it grabbed me," the 30-year-old said, explaining that she started to suffer seizures and blackouts.
She would drink each morning just to "level" herself out, her drink of choice being a pint of vodka.
After blacking out for the first time, she decided to visit the hospital. After getting out she did the same thing, and ended up back in three or four different times.
"The last time, I ended up in intensive care with multiple organ failure," Charlotte continued.
"I had heart failure, liver failure, kidney failure and they had to take two litres of fluid from my lungs and I was in for three weeks, but I couldn't move, I couldn't speak, I couldn't talk," the mother-of-two recalled.
She added: "So I was in intensive care, I was on oxygen and they got all of my family in to say bye to me. I was literally on end of life care."
She is now celebrating 11 months of sobriety and is volunteering for Inspire Lancashire, which are currently undertaking an alcohol awareness campaign.
"I think people think that you have to be an alcoholic for so many years or start off as a drinker, then a binge drinker and then you're an alcoholic.
Whereas, I'm trying to raise awareness that it can literally happen to you so quickly, without you even realising and then it can be too late for some people," the mother who was so close to dying concluded.
