In The Last Call, nurse, mother, and addict Gail Mitcavish recounts her plunge into alcohol and prescription addiction, the hurdles she overcame to embrace sober living, and how much her recovery mattered in the face of intense loss and grief.
Gail’s addiction takes her on what feels like an endless, treacherous path through problematic drinking and prescription pill abuse. This out-of-control cycle of jail cells, rehabilitation centers, and failed attempts at recovery took its toll on every aspect of Gail’s life, underpinning just how much healing and internal work she needed to do to pull herself out of this emotional and physical black hole.
In The Last Call, Gail takes readers through this painful process and details how she ultimately surrendered to the beauty and simplicity of sober and drug-free living - a step she couldn’t have taken without digging deep within herself to find hope. Hope that she could find the path to self-healing.
Gail won this battle just in time for more hurdles to present themselves: her mother’s death and both of her daughters receiving cancer diagnoses.
Whether readers are themselves navigating alcohol and drug recovery, ongoing addiction, loss, and grief, or the fallout of a dysfunctional family, Gail’s raw, compelling, and unapologetic storytelling demonstrates how much power we all have to overcome our internal conflicts.