I just had to let everyone know that my daughter has been clean for 15 weeks :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D
If you can only imagine how i feel.
She spent 8 weeks in jail, then moved to a rehab facility for 7 weeks, now she is in a half way house for the next 6 months. CLEAN CLEAN CLEAN...
She came to the house yesterday, this was the first time i have seen her since her jail time, tho we have talked on the phone several times. What used to be a 98 pound, scabbed arms, ulcers on her face, ratty notted hair, pitiful looking and starving is now a 135 pound, clear beautiful skin,
healthy body, beautiful hair and teeth, wonderful human being.
She surprised me. I was sitting at the kitchen table drinking my coffee and reading the Sunday paper when she walked in the door. You just can't know the emotion that went thru me. I held her for many minutes and we both cried. She apologized over and over again. We talked about up comming Holidays here at the new house. She is beautiful. My sweet baby girl is back. I smelled her hair, and touched her beautiful face, my baby is home and in my arms like the day she came into my world.
So to anyone out there who feels hopeless, please please have faith in your child and please beleive. I never lost hope like so many other family and friends did. I love her so and i prayed every single day for God to please help her. He did, for sure. I just talked with her a few minutes ago on the phone and she wrote me a poem. She will e-mail it to me and i will post it here for all to see. Then i will frame it and hang it in our bedroom so i can see it just before i close my eyes at night.
Thank you God and thanks to anyone here that has given me hope.
And a special shout out to Jenny, our site administrator, for telling me not to give up, i could feel her concern and caring.
The sun shines in my life again, i could dance, i don't know what to do with my happiness, i think i will just bask in it, it feels so good to know my girl is healthy and safe and well on the road to recovery. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
If you can only imagine how i feel.
She spent 8 weeks in jail, then moved to a rehab facility for 7 weeks, now she is in a half way house for the next 6 months. CLEAN CLEAN CLEAN...
She came to the house yesterday, this was the first time i have seen her since her jail time, tho we have talked on the phone several times. What used to be a 98 pound, scabbed arms, ulcers on her face, ratty notted hair, pitiful looking and starving is now a 135 pound, clear beautiful skin,
healthy body, beautiful hair and teeth, wonderful human being.
She surprised me. I was sitting at the kitchen table drinking my coffee and reading the Sunday paper when she walked in the door. You just can't know the emotion that went thru me. I held her for many minutes and we both cried. She apologized over and over again. We talked about up comming Holidays here at the new house. She is beautiful. My sweet baby girl is back. I smelled her hair, and touched her beautiful face, my baby is home and in my arms like the day she came into my world.
So to anyone out there who feels hopeless, please please have faith in your child and please beleive. I never lost hope like so many other family and friends did. I love her so and i prayed every single day for God to please help her. He did, for sure. I just talked with her a few minutes ago on the phone and she wrote me a poem. She will e-mail it to me and i will post it here for all to see. Then i will frame it and hang it in our bedroom so i can see it just before i close my eyes at night.
Thank you God and thanks to anyone here that has given me hope.
And a special shout out to Jenny, our site administrator, for telling me not to give up, i could feel her concern and caring.
The sun shines in my life again, i could dance, i don't know what to do with my happiness, i think i will just bask in it, it feels so good to know my girl is healthy and safe and well on the road to recovery. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
bbfeet9:
I am really glad your daughter is back in your arms. It feels like you can dance without music, doesn't it? I know how it feels to be an addict because I am that addict now but I am a recovering addict. I don't know what your daughter was smoking but I was smoking pot for the past three years and finally found myself on January 31st, 2009 that I am a slave lying and stealing money from my parents just to obey my master. I was a good kid and always had. I gave good advice on my family's mental problems and they always listened to me without hesitation so they do honor me a lot. But I was stupid and forgot about them and started smoking pot because all the "cool" kids did it. I am now clean for about four months and have no cravings at all. Just a bit of anxiety, tremor and a lot of insomnia. I just hope I can make it through this and I know I will because I built a lot of will power and learnt a lot about myself over the past three months. I just wish I can be as healthy as your daughter right now and hope my sleep comes back because I can't live without my sleep.
I am really glad your daughter is back in your arms. It feels like you can dance without music, doesn't it? I know how it feels to be an addict because I am that addict now but I am a recovering addict. I don't know what your daughter was smoking but I was smoking pot for the past three years and finally found myself on January 31st, 2009 that I am a slave lying and stealing money from my parents just to obey my master. I was a good kid and always had. I gave good advice on my family's mental problems and they always listened to me without hesitation so they do honor me a lot. But I was stupid and forgot about them and started smoking pot because all the "cool" kids did it. I am now clean for about four months and have no cravings at all. Just a bit of anxiety, tremor and a lot of insomnia. I just hope I can make it through this and I know I will because I built a lot of will power and learnt a lot about myself over the past three months. I just wish I can be as healthy as your daughter right now and hope my sleep comes back because I can't live without my sleep.
Congratulations to here and blessings to you ! This is a wonderful story of hope. Children may go their own way, but they can come back. We do not hear most of the success stories and that's why people tend to give up on them early. There is hope and you have given hope to others through your message. I am so happy for you. Keep encouraging her. She can stay clean. Bask in the blessing, you deserve it and so does she. Use your experience to encourage others. Don't keep it to yourself. See if you can get involved with one of the programs that supports the families of addicted persons. They may need to hear your story. Pass your blessings on to help others. Yeah !
That is so great! Congratulations! It is always nice to hear something good for a change as most people focus only on the negative. Celebrate these small (really huge) victories everyday. It is great that your daughter has persevered and you are so supportive. This is great for the restoration in your family as well! Congratulations again, keep us all posted on everything.
I am glad to hear that she's been clean for 15 weeks. In terms of addiction, that's like two years! It's a long, uphill battle, but the more time you put between yourself and the prior addiction, the better off you are. I am really proud of your daughter as well to be honest because I know it's a really big deal for your family, and it's not something many people do. Keep us posted on her success!
Next month is graduation for Julie :-D She will celebrate one full year of sobriety. She has gotten a letter of recomendation from the half way house and the Judge which allows her to get her own apartment. She is still on probation for the next two years, which is good. She will still have to report to her probation officer once a wek and she still must maintain her classes.
She has a bunch of certificates from various programs that she has attended and is now taking a sign language course. She is accepeted at a Suny College and begins a 4 year program in June. She wants to be a neo natal nurse. She also has been a several interviews, as she is looking for a part time job.
She is so loving and warm once again. We take it all one day at a time. Thank you for all of your kind words and i will tell anyone in this situation to never give up on their loved ones. As painful and scarey as it all gets sometimes, i never gave up and i never kicked her to the curb, not once. Many family members just couldn't be bothered after a while, it got old, quick. The empty promises from her gave so many of us false hope and sure enough, she would always burst the bubble.
One whole year has passed and she has hit some bad times. Both of her gramas died 4 weeks apart, her grampa was diagnosed with bone cancer, her son was diagnosed with ADHD, she found a lump on her neck which turned up empty, which really scared us because my mom had a form of Hodgkins.
She never wavered or back slid and she found her own inner strength without looking for her drugs.
She has a bunch of certificates from various programs that she has attended and is now taking a sign language course. She is accepeted at a Suny College and begins a 4 year program in June. She wants to be a neo natal nurse. She also has been a several interviews, as she is looking for a part time job.
She is so loving and warm once again. We take it all one day at a time. Thank you for all of your kind words and i will tell anyone in this situation to never give up on their loved ones. As painful and scarey as it all gets sometimes, i never gave up and i never kicked her to the curb, not once. Many family members just couldn't be bothered after a while, it got old, quick. The empty promises from her gave so many of us false hope and sure enough, she would always burst the bubble.
One whole year has passed and she has hit some bad times. Both of her gramas died 4 weeks apart, her grampa was diagnosed with bone cancer, her son was diagnosed with ADHD, she found a lump on her neck which turned up empty, which really scared us because my mom had a form of Hodgkins.
She never wavered or back slid and she found her own inner strength without looking for her drugs.
Hello Everyone:
I hope things are still going well for everyone who has posted a success story and I hope things will improve for those who are still in a raging battle against their addiction or with a loved one's. Please give me new updates on how everything is going. Your stories are so inspiring, not just for recovering from additions, but for other battles that we face daily. I would love to hear back from all of you. Hearing about the struggles helps too, because it means that you have not quit. I look forward to hearing from everyone.
I hope things are still going well for everyone who has posted a success story and I hope things will improve for those who are still in a raging battle against their addiction or with a loved one's. Please give me new updates on how everything is going. Your stories are so inspiring, not just for recovering from additions, but for other battles that we face daily. I would love to hear back from all of you. Hearing about the struggles helps too, because it means that you have not quit. I look forward to hearing from everyone.