This is my post for #freewriters Monday prompt Have I seen her hosted by @mariannewest
When you have a child that is on drugs, your heart never stops hurting. This picture is of my daughter and her boyfriend, he overdosed five years ago. I really liked him until he started using and now for the last five years, she is doing the same. I am sure she was using when she was with him, it just was not this bad.
If the dogs bark at night, the first thought that comes to my mind is the police are here with the news, and I freeze waiting on the knock on the door. When it does not happen, I pray for her.
(When I see the daily prompt, I write about the first thing that comes to my mind. I do not know if I can do this one.
OK, I got the tears to stop, I thought I did. I will finish this post in a bit.)
My son came by and I always asked if he saw her. He told me, have I seen her, I spent the entire day trying to keep her from jumping off of the bridge. She was screaming that people were trying to put something inside of her. He said people were trying to fish and watching her run around screaming. He said no one called the cops. He said this went on for hours. The only time I wished that someone would have called them.
In the past, I have tried to get them to Baker Act her but they would not do it. They tell me that she has to meet 3 things, I forget what they all were but one of them was she has to be a danger to herself. This time she was. I'm done.