you have articulated much of what I think too. I always thought he would make it to at least around 40. But fore mostly I thought there would be at least one hospital visit before the end (likely multiple, but in my head I was waiting for the first). This would never happen.Fuck, dude. I was looking at his channel and i saw that his last video was posted "4 days ago" when i last checked it, then i thought: "Damn, quickly it will be months since he last posted and later it will be years, at one point we will look back at this channel and it will say that his last video was posted 10 years ago".
I'm not someone who's unwilling to accept death as a fact of life, when old people die i think it's natural despite being bummed out they are gone, but with Cobra it really hit me different because he was so young. I swear on my mother's life, i didn't think he would die now. He looked awful, i know, but i thought he would make it to 40.
Reallistically alcoholism will lead you to live a shitty life, you will see it effects on your health and you will eventually die from it, but you don't go when you're 34 without showing severe symptons that you were fucked from drinking to much.
I would understand if Cobra had ascitis, if his skin and eyes were yellow, if he looked like he was about to drop dead, but it really looks to me like there was some negligency from the doctors, i'm not sure. From what people said Clint took him to the doctor, i've been to the emergency before because i was having a gay heart attack (aka panic attack) and the doctors put me through an electrocardiogram, the tested my blood to see CRP, ERP, PCT, white blood cells, everything.
The doctor should have sent him to emergency care if they saw the boy was in pain and was told he was a severe alcoholic.
Anyway, it's not going to bring him back to blame others now, i hope i'm wrong and they did the best they could and it was just unfortunate.
As for doctor negligence: as far as I'm aware he hasn't been any time recently. And this is where the true judgment of Clint begins for me. I think Josh was lucky to have Clint as a father. But let's just reflect on this situation.
1. I dont think Josh had a working phone. I could be wrong about this. But he at least didn't recently, and I don't think the pink iPhone had service. I could be wrong.
2. I would have taken Josh to the hospital the moment I saw his facebook video. If Clint was capable of this and chose not to, then he is completely reprehensible. Josh said it "hurt to lay down", "I have been puking and pooping all night", and "it hurts to breath." Especially if he didn't have a phone, and Clint saw this, there is no excuse.
3. There should've been a blood test at the bare minimum within the last year. I struggle with alcohol myself and I get those on a near yearly basis for this reason.
It's like, at what point is Clint not meeting the bare minimum?
Either way, RIP Josh.