princess29340

Just wanted to tell my story get any information and advised that anyone had to offer. I am 29, my mom is 55 and she has been abusing prescription meds for about 10 years now. She was good at hiding it for the most part; there were times that even I could not tell. Every so often she would kind of go off the deep end and there would be no denying what was going on and everything she would swear that she would never do it again. I hope she’s about to do her first stint in rehab but judging from her state of mind I’m afraid that she is not ready to get the help that she needs.

I moved out of the house in February because of her drug behavior, again she swore that it had lost her the presence of her daughter and she would never abuse again. About three weeks later she has some “friends” come to visit. On Sunday one of her “friends” went to the ER in an ambulance for a drug over dose. I was told that my mom slept from Wednesday until Friday. She stayed in the recliner and never moved. Her sister in law called me Friday afternoon and said that she planned to call the paramedics. She called and explained that this was not the first we had been in this position with her and that if she woke up and said that she did not want to go the hospital the medics could not make her go. The dispatcher sent an officer first he assessed my mom and asked her some questions and determined that was in danger and must go to the hospital.

That’s where she is now, in ICU. At first they said that she showed signs of kidney failure because she stayed in the same place for so longer but that condition has reversed itself. Now she is being treated for pneumonia and once she is medically stable she will be going to a psychiatric hospital\ drug rehabilitation. She had been very uncooperative and belligerent and the staff must keep her in restraints and has a guard at her door. She will periodically tear out the IV and insist that she is leaving. I called for an update a little while ago and the staff transferred my call to my mom. All she wanted to know was who had her pills because she will need them when she gets out. How can she possibly be receptive to the help that is going to be offered her when all she is worried about is getting her pills back? She has anxiety and chronic back pain but obviously she does not take her meds as directed and when she runs out her meds she will buy them from others. I want her to get better but I am afraid to have any hope because she had disappointed me so many times before.