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.
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In his sliver of a whisper he begged and begged and begged all night to please give him some water - which I could understand since his mouth had been open for over 3 days with a tube down his throat and lips swollen and cracked. A couple of times I dozed off in my recliner only to wake up to him trying to pull himself out of his bed to get to the small sink in the corner of the room.