Re: garding the death of Helen Chalmers
From: Krys Chamberlain (kryschamberlain@hotmail.com)
Thu Mar 26 15:38:36 2009
At Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Katie wrote:
>
>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."
My sympathies to all. I am just recovering from yet another adhesions
attack and although I am not on pain medication, i have felt very
suicidal many many times. Like life is not worth living if all I have
to look forward to is a lifetime of this. My doctor tells me I have to
just ride it out. easy for him to say, he doesn't have to do it. I
have tried antispasmodics, anti emetics , nothing works. I understand
the despair she must have felt and it is so ad that this has happened.
>
--
Krys.