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.
ICU
While it did help to have some detail about how John ended up in the hospital it was still a surreal experience to be standing by, helpless, just waiting. We didn't even really know what we were waiting for - and the steady stream of nurses, aides, doctors and other busy-looking people rushing in and out of John's room didn't fill us in. So we waited.