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**Impurrfect** · 02-06-2009, 06:46 AM

((LB)) - at the end of my using days, I'd had enough clean time that using couldn't erase reality enough. It's like what they say...a little bit of recovery can screw up your high

At least, it did for me.

I've done fine with the cough syrup. My stepmom has gone over the edge with her pain pills again. She fell out in the bathroom, last night...high as a kite. I got her pills out of her purse..she had gotten 100 lortab 10 mg's on the 31st...she's already taken 50 of them. I called dad, he was on his way home.

I took the pills out of her purse, to give to dad but before I could, he went to sleep. She came in to get her pills, started screaming at me, coming after me (this is a 62-year-old woman who can barely move because of pain from arthritis). I started yelling for dad, to get her off of me, she's screaming "they're MY pills, I paid for them, my dr. gave them to me!!" I said "yeah, but he didn't tell you to take 10 a day!!"

I gave them to dad, he was going out of town again today and told her he would leave her with 2...she had a look of pure panic. He's already left for the day, I don't know what he did about the pills, and I don't even want to talk to her. Yes, I know she's an addict, but after she got arrested 2 months ago for trying to fill a fraudulent prescription, she begged me for help. I told her I'd tried to help before, she never listened to me.

She scared the he!! out of my 15-year-old niece, Brit. Brit wanted to call an ambulance and I had to say "oh, she does this when she takes too many pills". Now Brit's mad at her, stepmom is groaning from pain, and I've just had it!

One VERY good reminder of why I don't want to take any more than what is prescribed on my cough medicine!

Hugs and prayers!

Amy

02-06-2009, 06:46 AM	#126 (permalink)
Impurrfect Social Network Moderator Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Atlanta Posts: 18,317	((LB)) - at the end of my using days, I'd had enough clean time that using couldn't erase reality enough. It's like what they say...a little bit of recovery can screw up your high At least, it did for me. I've done fine with the cough syrup. My stepmom has gone over the edge with her pain pills again. She fell out in the bathroom, last night...high as a kite. I got her pills out of her purse..she had gotten 100 lortab 10 mg's on the 31st...she's already taken 50 of them. I called dad, he was on his way home. I took the pills out of her purse, to give to dad but before I could, he went to sleep. She came in to get her pills, started screaming at me, coming after me (this is a 62-year-old woman who can barely move because of pain from arthritis). I started yelling for dad, to get her off of me, she's screaming "they're MY pills, I paid for them, my dr. gave them to me!!" I said "yeah, but he didn't tell you to take 10 a day!!" I gave them to dad, he was going out of town again today and told her he would leave her with 2...she had a look of pure panic. He's already left for the day, I don't know what he did about the pills, and I don't even want to talk to her. Yes, I know she's an addict, but after she got arrested 2 months ago for trying to fill a fraudulent prescription, she begged me for help. I told her I'd tried to help before, she never listened to me. She scared the he!! out of my 15-year-old niece, Brit. Brit wanted to call an ambulance and I had to say "oh, she does this when she takes too many pills". Now Brit's mad at her, stepmom is groaning from pain, and I've just had it! One VERY good reminder of why I don't want to take any more than what is prescribed on my cough medicine! Hugs and prayers! Amy __________________ "I'm not where I want to be, but thank God I'm not where I used to be" - Joyce Meyer "You got what it takes you can win, today is your day to begin. Don't give up here, don't you quit, the moment is now, this is it I know that you can then you will, get to the top of the hill. Part of the fun is the climb, you just gotta make up your mind" - Shania Twain (Tinker, Elvis, Patches and Mots - Mouth Of The South)