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Age: 49
Gender: Female
Location: Florida

I hope this story of meth use in my family isn't over yet. I'm the step-mom of a couple of Methamphetamine addicts. I married a man whose kids are almost my age. My step-son and his wife are meth addicts. For his 45th birthday my step-son was in the hospital having emergency surgery because his lung had collapsed and he was bleeding eternally. My husband and I never prayed harder in our lives for our son to recover. The night before he was to be incubated for two weeks my husband told his son he would provide for their two teenage boys if our son died. Our son was scared and he asked forgiveness for his drug use and told us he would stay away from meth if God allowed him to live.

God heard our prayers and our son survived not the incubation but an emergency surgery they had to perform not four hours before they told us the surgery would certainly kill him. It was so oblivious to us God had intervened and allowed our son his live back. His 19 and 13 year old sons would have their father to raise them instead of us trying to take over. We were elated. We couldn't imagine our son using again after what he had been through.

After he got out of the Critical Care Unit at St. Luke's Hospital in Boise his wife left us a message. She said we would not be able to get any more information from the hospital; that we would have to find out from her what was going on with our son from there on. You see drug users don't think logically; they live in a strange distorted reality. We resolved not to argue with her because it just seemed so wrong what she was doing, to even reply would be crazy. Also the St. Luke's Hospital in Boise had been so wonderful we just couldn't cause any trouble with the people who had been holding our hand through our deepest valley. A father's worse nightmare is losing a son. The son called us and finally got out of the hospital. It was a miracle but our joy was guarded due to the wife's strange behavior we knew the probably of her still using was great. We planned to send food and money to the family to help during our son's recovery but something strange happened one night. Our son while at home recovering from his close to death ordeal called my husband and asked him for money. We had a credit card with $50.00 dollars prepared to send but during the course of the phone call the son's wife started yelling in the back ground that we didn't care about them and if we didn't send the money express mail-right away then our son should hang up. Well the phone went dead.

We do care. My husband is in so much anguish not being able to help his son and knowing if his son is most likely using again and he will die soon if he is. Our son has lost half his lung and almost his life. This drug is so powerful; it is so hard to quit our son just might die before his father who is 66 years old does if he can't quit. We can't send money now because we know they will use it for meth. We have offered to pay for them (both our son and his wife) to go to treatment for their drug addiction. I work for a mental health facility and we understand they are sick and need help. We would pay whatever it cost, even though we have a graduating senior in school this year our son's step brother and we earn a modest income. You see this drug is so evil it wants our son dead and us in the deepest despair. It doesn't care if our grandsons don't have a father and their mother stays addicted. That is the story meth has planned for our family and I hope the meth looses. I wanted to tell our story about our son who has been using meth for upward of 25 years now. He won't use meth much longer because he will be dead if he doesn't stop.

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