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.
the ER
I must have looked lost (although I’d been here many times before) and slightly crazed because the woman at the reception desk immediately asked who I was there for and I told her I was John’s mom. She jumped up and put her head through a door behind her and simply said, “Mom’s here.”