Can this really be happening to me? Here we are just barley making it with both of us working... We are going to loose our house and car! I know, I will just get through the 4 weeks of recovery then I can go back to work. Surely we can survive 4 weeks!
At Dr for my 4 weeks checkup.. " Dr. I have to go back to work"even though I couldn't even lift my arm, I was determined. " No mam I don't think you are. Now you can began physical therapy and you are now allowed to lift a gallon of milk. Are you kidding me right now? So needless to say my recovery was about 6 months long!!
I went into a deep depression. Sleeping more than ever, not bathing, combing my hair and any housework was out of the question. My poor husband was left with everything!!!
And to be honest, I really didn't care. All I was worried with was when is my next Percocet due! Bare with me this is hard to see this in black and white......
I was crying out for help but no one heard me. I was in major denial. I would go places I had to go...Not really even remembering that I was there. Hurry there and hurry back. I didn't want to talk be around anyone and I could really care less what people was thinking about me. I had nothing to live for. Or so it seemed. Really mad at God for letting all this happen to me. This all went on for about one year. Then I finally got a job. but my journey was still not over. I struggled in that job. Not my responsibilities has a nurse I could do that with my eyes closed. The fact that my addiction was making me physically sick. Soon after I started that job, I went into renal failure and was facing dialysis.. One of the medications that I was on for my migraines was causing my renal function to fail. But only me and only me knew the truth. I was taking 4x the amount that I was prescribed. I really didn't think I was addicted to it because it was not a narcotic but now I know different.
If it wasn't for people at my church praying, my family and my dear husband praying, my life would have taken a different direction. They finally got my levels down and I was discharged...But the very next day when I was at home I took the medication again!! Did I not learn my lesson? What was I thinking? I was fighting a very hard addiction. I was desperate!!! But I would never have let anyone know this....Next couple of days I received a letter...............
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