In the Grip
A child’s addiction. A family’s journey.
My hope is that telling this part of our story will open a conversation with someone who needs it. My words here are real, written through pain but told so we can start to unshackle ourselves from the stigma of addiction.
The most important thing to know is you're not on this path alone. There are thousands of people exactly where you are and if we put our voices together we can help each other through.
room with a view
It didn’t occur to me that we were on the stroke unit for a reason – I just knew that the room was much larger, triangle in shape and had a peek-a-boo view of downtown Seattle through the thick trees on the hospital campus. I thought about how much John would love that – he’s a kid who loves his city passionately and I hoped that when he woke up and saw the iconic top of the Space Needle it might help him remember or recover or whatever it was that he needed to get better.