Rotting teeth, jaundice skin and skeletal frame - these horrifying pictures show the effects of chronic alcohol abuse that is slowly killing a mum-of-four.
Beverley Pickorer faces certain death from liver disease at the age of 35.
She is racked by epileptic seizures and her ravaged body shows the damage inflicted by years of heavy drinking.
Beverley Pickorer faces certain death from liver disease at the age of 35.
She is racked by epileptic seizures and her ravaged body shows the damage inflicted by years of heavy drinking.
The shocking images emerged as her partner Anthony Howard begs for Beverley to be allowed to die at home in Parson Cross, Sheffield, rather than spend her last days in a nearby care home.
Beverley has been drink-dependent for years - at her worst she was downing up to 24 cans of lager plus a bottle of perry 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.
Beverley has spent the last eight months receiving palliative care at Haythorne Place Care Home, in Shiregreen, where most other residents are elderly pensioners.
She had spent the previous four months in hospital.
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Partner Anthony said: "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.
"She's the youngest person in this care home. All she can do every day now is stay in bed. The staff come and turn her every two hours."
Anthony said Beverley's drinking problems started in her early 20s, during a series of troubled relationships.
He said: "When I met her I took her drinking as part of her, it's something I got used to.
"When she got up and had a can in her hand straightaway, I got immune to it. To her it was like having a cup of tea.
"Beverley has four beautiful children, they are now aged six to 15, and they have all been taken into care because she can't look after them.
"It's tragic. We made an agreement that when she dies she would die in my arms at home, but the NHS has said it would be too expensive to care for her at home.
"They would have to pay for one carer and a nurse. She's on a syringe driver to stop her having seizures.
"But Beverley wants to die at home and I don't think you can deny a person that."
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Matt McMullen, from the Sheffield Alcohol Support Service, said Beverley's situation was "very sad".
Mr McMullen, service's activities co-ordinator, said: "Unfortunately it is not unheard of for someone of such a young age to be experiencing such severe health problems as a result of alcohol consumption."
Kevin Clifford, chief nurse for NHS Sheffield Clinical Commissioning Group, said he was unable to comment on individual patients.
He added: "Whenever possible, the CCG looks to arrange care which meets the wishes of patients and their carers, as well as their care needs.
"However, in so doing, we have to consider the safest and most appropriate manner in which an individual's needs can be met.
"It is always regrettable when we have to take a decision based on a patient's safety which doesn't meet the hopes of their family.
"But we work with the family to offer them a range of solutions, and endeavour to offer a care package that is in the best interests of the patient and agreeable to the family."
According to NHS figures, between 2001 and 2009 there were 400 deaths per year in people aged up to 39 where alcoholic liver disease was the underlying cause.
Mr McMullen added: "The bottom line is, good quality help is available in Sheffield and South Yorkshire, and the earlier someone can access that help the better."
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