it does show how bad addictions can become.
lots of love rach xxx
> Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:14:56 -0500
> From: katie_scarlett67@hotmail.com
> To: adhesions@mail.obgyn.net
> Subject: Regarding the death of Helen Chalmers
>
> I was contacted by one of Helen's sisters, Peggy, this morning about
> Helen's untimely passing. I asked if I could post her email here and
> she said yes. I feel that it carries a very powerful message about pain
> medications and their addictive properties.
>
> Peggy, if you read this, thank you for sharing Helen's story and your
> grief. May God watch over her children.
>
> Katie
>
> From: peggylee williams (pwilliams227@gmail.com)
> Sent: Wed 3/25/09
> To: katie_scarlett67@hotmail.com
>
> "I am Helen sister Peggy. Her and I lived within one mile of each other
> and saw each other every day. We were extremely close and her death was
> devasting to me. It took me two years to locate our half sisters and
> apparently Debbie is the one who has contacted you.
>
> Helen did not die from the pain, she took her own life. She did not
> take her life because she could not live with the pain, she did it
> because of the Oxy she had been taking for 6 years and it destroyed her.
> They took her Oxy away from h er and the addiction was so bad that she
> just could not live without the medication. Within the month she was
> trying to detox herself. she thought she was through it and so did I.
> But in the last week something happened to her mind that I do not
> understand. Our family doctor put it the best when he said to me it's
> not that Helen couldn't live with the pain it is that she could not live
> without the pain medication, and the first doctor who perscribed it to
> her is the person that killed her.
>
> I do not know you and not familiar with the web site but I want to tell
> everyone who is going through what Helen went through. Find another
> medication to deal with the pain. Even if it does not work as well, it
> is better to live with some pain then to not live at all. Oxy is a
> powerful evil medication. Do not take it, it will destroy you and your
> family. She left behind a beautiful 18 year old daughter and a 19 year
> old wonderful son. Our lives will never be the same."
>
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