On 2021-04-28 7:56 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> On Wednesday, April 28, 2021 at 7:47:16 AM UTC-4, Gary wrote:

>> How much wine or mixed drinks
>> have you had since then? Wine with dinner counts too. That helps your
>> food to taste better. lol
>
> I used to drink a lot. Six-pack a night. Then I tapered down to
> occasional drinking. When I discovered that alcohol gave me
> menopausal hot flashes, I pretty much quit because the cost/benefit
> ratio wasn't favorable.
>
> I've never been much of a wine drinker, and when I drink mixed
> drinks I mix them pretty weak. Anything more than about 8%
> alcohol just doesn't taste good to me.
>
> In the last year, my entire alcohol consumption has been two beers
> and a couple of shots of Bailey's Irish Cream.

I had slipped into the habit of a Manhattan every night, and often had a
second one, and then a glass of wine with dinner. After my incident
last summer I quite drinking entirely for a few months. I had a glass of
wine on my birthday and at Christmas. Lately I have been keeping it at
one beer and 1-2 glasses of wine a week.