Oh jem I hope your mum is better soon sounds like you have alot to deal with. It’s awful isnt it when our intuition tells us that something is up especially when its proven right. I pray for the day for all of us that we will be proved wrong.
I had to pick my son up from a police station first thing on xmas day…nothing says merry xmas like a call like that!
He wasnt in trouble he was found on the streets in the freezing cold and they had taken him there and given him some food.
He had been on a 2 week bender which was really traumatic and we had said he cldnt come for xmas based on it. That night the friend he was staying with and him got in a fight and he lost all his keys phone etc and decided to sleep rough.
Anyway I picked him up xmas morning and despite being very emotional due to coming down off everything he came to us and stayed for 3 days and was actually the best I’d seen him. He was engaging and chatty at mealtimes but spent the rest of the time in his old room so I guess out of a bad situation we had a nice xmas.
My new years resolution is to keep taking a step back and trying to put myself first.
I had a reaction to my anti depressants and am now waiting for covid results.
I’ve joined a support grp too which has weekly zoom meetings.
They reccomended a book called dont let your kids kill you! I havnt bought it yet but it’s a self help book for parents of addicts so I reckon may be a helpful read.
I hope you all had good xmas and made the best of the covid restrictions etc and our addict loved ones wernt too burdensome.
Thanks for all your support on here it helps to know ypure out there.