Tuesday 14 January 2014
These shocking images show the damage alcohol can do to the body - even at a very young age.
Mother-of-four Beverley Pickorer faces certain death from liver disease as a result of years of heavy drinking.
The 35-year-old is plagued by epileptic seizures, her teeth are rotting, her stomach is swollen and her skin is thin and jaundiced.
Now, her distraught partner Anthony Howard, 31, is pleading for her to be allowed to return to her home in Sheffield to die.
If he is being denied his wish, she will spend her last days being nursed around the clock at Haythorne Place Care Home, in Shiregreen.
Ms Pickorer has been drink-dependent for years and at her worst was downing up to 24 cans of lager plus a bottle of perry - pear cider - in the morning, then visiting the pub, then drinking as many as 16 cans when she returned home.
Her four children have all been taken into care.
She has spent the last eight months receiving palliative care in the home, where most other residents are elderly. Before that, she spent four months in hospital.
‘I've been looking after my partner for five-and-a-half years, and she's constantly been in and out of hospital with liver cirrhosis,’ said Mr Howard.
