The Day I told My Mom I Smoke Pot
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I ran upstairs and the door was locked. When this was Mike's room he put a door knob with a lock on it. I am hearing more moaning and I am screaming "Adam open this door! Damn it, open this door"! I was kicking the door. I could hear him trying to move and fall; he finally opened the door, turned around and fell backwards. I tried to catch him, he was gray and ghostly and not responding. It was the face in my nightmares that I had been having for the past couple of weeks. I saw bottles of pills and a can of beer, I ran to the phone and dialed 911.
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Sue and Lou never had any fears or doubts about raising their three children. They were not like their parents. They welcomed the teenage years. They knew their kids might experiment with drugs and alcohol, just like they had. So they talked with their kids about their own experiences they had as teenagers. As a family they were very close. They took their kids camping to Glamis, the desert, the beach and the Colorado River. They went to Big Bear every winter and they golfed almost every weekend as a family. By the time their youngest was in high school, their oldest was already 24 and their middle child was 19. Their youngest would always tell them not to worry, that he would never be like his older brother and sister. Young Adam had witnessed all the trying times his parents had with his two older siblings; alcohol, drugs, house parties, and pre-marital sex. Adam's friends always came over to the house and Sue and Lou knew them all. They were all good kids. But when Adam told his mom he had smoked marijuana, it was not like when the older siblings had experimented with it. Sue and Lou would quickly discover he was using it to escape from the hurt and pain he felt after his first love broke up with him. But what Sue and Lou didn't know was that their worst nightmare was growing in their youngest son. Without having a true understanding of addiction, this family will go through a hell they could have never imagined. In order to keep from having a breakdown Sue started writing about how this all started. It all began with a story Adam wrote in his Freshman English class titled “The Day I told my Mom I Smoke Pot”.
About the Author
S. Maloy is a wife, mother of three and grandmother of two. She became a mother at the early age of 18. She and her husband have been married for 32 years and have worked very hard their entire lives. They shared a dream of growing old together; becoming grandparents and watching their children grow into successful adults. Never in her mind did she think any of her children would suffer from addiction. She is sharing her memoirs of all that transpired over the last 8 years, beginning with the day her youngest son wrote a paper in his English class, ”The day I told my Mom I smoke pot”.