Good-Bye Sharon J - A Fellow Addict - Addiction & Recovery Message Board

toomany · 02-13-2005, 08:57 AM

Hello all,

I went to a funeral this past Friday for a woman that was in my therapy group in the out patient treatment program I'm currently in. Three weeks ago, the night she was supposed to graduate from the program she admitted she had relapsed for a second time since getting sober 4 mos ago. She sobbed. She said she couldn't understand why she couldn't get it as this was not her first attempt at getting clean. Through her tears she cried that she didn't want to die this way and she was afraid she would. I couldn't get her off of my mind when I left that evening. I thought about her all week and hoped she was doing OK. The next week she was not in group and the counselor told us that she was going to come but that her boss had day surgery and she had to pick her up and take her home. My initial thought was oh no, what about the pain meds that her boss most likely had. Then last week when I went to group the counselor told me she had bad news, Sharon was found dead by her brother. She had hydro, crack cocaine and alcohol in her system. This is so very sad. She was stuggling so hard to get clean & sober.

I'm not posting this to depress anyone or to try and scare anyone straight. I do hope that someone gains something meaningful from hearing this. I believe she would have wanted other addicts to know what happened to her.

Rest in peace, Sharon.

Patty

Anti Social · 02-13-2005, 09:13 AM

That is an unfortunate and sad reminder as to what could happen with drugs.

May she finally rest in peace.

Sarandipity · 02-13-2005, 09:38 AM

Patty,
Im sad too. I feel the pain whenever one of our brothers or sisters die who are in the fellowship. It what people do not realize sometimes about this disease is one day you can be on top of the world and the next, the disease is back and people die.

It feels so glamorous when you are first doing drugs, gets you "out of your mind" to forget all your problems. Then.. a few years later---- I wasent doing the drugs, they were doing me.
In the final days... it was anything BUT Glamorous.
Im so sorry about Sharon.

Take care Patty, my Houston Bud !

Sara

lisaaahubb · 02-14-2005, 04:45 AM

Patty,
This is a reminder of how serious this disease really is....
Thanks for sharing this....
love,
LISA

blurayne · 02-15-2005, 03:00 PM

Thank you for sharing that! I am currently in WD's for pain pills and this keeps me going. It gets me through the hard times when you feel you just can't go on because the WD's are so bad and you just want a break. Just to feel good for an hour after 3 days straight of feeling like hell. This keeps me going and I know you don't want to scare anyone straight, but it scares the hell out of me and makes it worth keeping going and knowing, although slowly, I will feel better in time. That one hour break can be my last hour. thank you again and I'm sorry.