eldest
07-04-2008, 09:28
A letter written to Tommy and Shelby Chong,
I want to share with you the saddest day if my life. I am heartbroken. My youngest child, my beautiful daughter died earlier this morning of cirrhosis of the liver.
Unknown to me, she contacted hepatitis C when getting a cheap tattoo as a teenager. This was dormant until a year and a half ago ....she came down with a rare disease
and was paralyzed from the waist down, and gradually came out of it over the following year. However, during this time of regenerating her nerves in her legs and feet, she was in extreme pain. She is not and was not a drug user. No medication from the doctors could relive the pain in her legs and feet.
I suggested that she try marijuana to help with the pain she had...but because of the stigma of being a drug, she did not want to use marijuana.
Her pain in her legs an feet was unbearable, so she resorted to drinking Vodka as a pain medication. I knew she was drinking to relive the pain;
However, I didn't realize the extent. I also, being a bit naive, did not know that a person with cirrhosis of the liver cannot drink.
I am devastated at the loss of my daughter. Why is alcohol legal if it kills people, when marijuana is illegal and it may help people relive pain?
I cannot believe my loss, my daughter was the world to me.
Please help me make this point!
From Rebecca
I brought this here because I want to help make Rebecca's point.
To keep this God given plant from those who need it is a sin if there is one.
I cried when I read it and it reminded me of why I do what I do.
It fortified my resolve as it were, and then I went outside and just howled.
I want to share with you the saddest day if my life. I am heartbroken. My youngest child, my beautiful daughter died earlier this morning of cirrhosis of the liver.
Unknown to me, she contacted hepatitis C when getting a cheap tattoo as a teenager. This was dormant until a year and a half ago ....she came down with a rare disease
and was paralyzed from the waist down, and gradually came out of it over the following year. However, during this time of regenerating her nerves in her legs and feet, she was in extreme pain. She is not and was not a drug user. No medication from the doctors could relive the pain in her legs and feet.
I suggested that she try marijuana to help with the pain she had...but because of the stigma of being a drug, she did not want to use marijuana.
Her pain in her legs an feet was unbearable, so she resorted to drinking Vodka as a pain medication. I knew she was drinking to relive the pain;
However, I didn't realize the extent. I also, being a bit naive, did not know that a person with cirrhosis of the liver cannot drink.
I am devastated at the loss of my daughter. Why is alcohol legal if it kills people, when marijuana is illegal and it may help people relive pain?
I cannot believe my loss, my daughter was the world to me.
Please help me make this point!
From Rebecca
I brought this here because I want to help make Rebecca's point.
To keep this God given plant from those who need it is a sin if there is one.
I cried when I read it and it reminded me of why I do what I do.
It fortified my resolve as it were, and then I went outside and just howled.