RE: 5 minute freewrite 2317 prompt don’t protect him

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RE: 5 minute freewrite 2317 prompt don’t protect him

carolkean in Freewriters • 8 months ago

I love your spirit of tolerance and compassion!

... it is a mess but no one else can see it. We decided to leave it alone and not report them being there because it is well off the beaten path and they have not bothered us.

For a mother to know her child is homeless -
In "Breaking Bad," Jesse's parents kept telling him he couldn't come home due to his drug habits ("you'll corrupt your little brother").
In real life, I've known parents who allowed their brilliant, talented, and gifted son to do time in jail for his drug addiction, which began during his freshman year at Vanderbilt (he squandered a full ride). Twice the guy OD'd and had to be revived with Narcan. Now he's married and working full time and playing jazz gigs with an indie band that's building a reputation.

Twice, he was clinically dead. Twice, he revived.

My heart aches for all the mothers whose children did not make it....
Thanks for this post, @myjob, and @owasco for reblogging it!

8 months ago in Freewriters by carolkean

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myjob 8 months ago

Thank you, I would say it comes from having a child who has lived this way but I was like this when mine were very young, I just feel it more now.
A few days ago my son was on the river shore and saw a young man who had Overdosed, he said he was giving him CPR and someone came with the Narcan thing and gave it to him but he did not come around, he kept giving CPR until the ambulance arrived. The next day he called the hospital to check on him but they would not tell him anything, but they told him that no one around that age had passed away. My heart goes out to his parents, especially his mother.

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carolkean 7 months ago

Your son, giving CPR to a stranger, an overdose victim - God bless him!
And no deaths in that age group reported, so chances are good, your son saved that man's life.
Your family is awesome. You know that. :)

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myjob 7 months ago

Thank you for saying that but I think it is something anyone would have done. Don't get me wrong, I am very proud of him, my family is not any different than most families, it is just so many of us and something is always going on.

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