Cotton Candy
March 4, 2008Last night Jan and I met T and L at our local eatery.
It is a mexican restaurant called Los Reyes.
Great food but more than that it has become where
many people we know hang out. Besides the fact that
Monday is 50 cent taco night. The place was hopping.
We of course sat in the bar. The last local refuge for
smokers. Literally. Jan and L love their Margaritas.
T and I are always their drivers.
We walked in and were met with “There’s Jan and Annie!”
Very lovely actually. Fellow Deputy Coroner Larry and his wife
Laris greeted us. A lab tech sat at the bar. Familiar, nice.
We know the staff and they know us. I like that very much.
Anyway, Larry was talking about an alarming problem in Hilary’s
high school. NO one is talking about it on the news.
The school isn’t talking about it. Has sent home no notice
stating that there is a problem. But 4 (maybe 5 today)
kids are dead this week!
As you are walking the halls of the school you may hear
someone call out “Cotton Candy!” They aren’t talking about
carnival food it’s Oxy. Oxycontin is being passed around and
kids are dying. Jan had a couple cases this week. The kid selling
them is the latest victim and may not make it. But there are others
hanging around, graduated kids, still hanging around to sell.
Just one more danger to my kid that no school official will talk about.
So of course we have a serious discussion with Hil.
She’s a smart girl and will help us spread the word.
When Kate was in High School she came home sick one day.
I tended to her all day thinking she had the flu.
I found out through her best friend’s mother that Kate had
taken half an Oxy! June is a physician and worked with us
at HMC. (she also served as our officiant when we married)
So she knew us and loves Kate. She told us (gratefully) because
she was worried about Kate. I had thought Kate knew better.
Her father is a nurse, her mother too. All the kids hear the horror
stories. And yet she too had to try it.
We were appropriately outraged that she did it. I was pissed that
she lied about it. If she would have come to me and said,
“Mom I did something stupid”, those words alone would have
caused understanding in me. But she didn’t. She never tried it again.
Because it made her so very ill. Not because of the danger though,
kids think they will live forever. But 4 kids lives this week are over.
Maybe 5. He is in ICU in Chatttown. It’s very scary.
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I’m heading out to Lowes, thank goodness they open at 7 am!
I’m looking for an alternative grout color for Jaded’s art piece.
I want to get an early start and get it grouted today.
I worked on trees on the next piece yesterday.
It is in an ugly stage LOL so no pics…
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Yesterday it was 70 degrees. All night the winds howled.
It felt like the beach when we came out of Los Reyes last night.
We stood in the parking lot and finished talking and loved it.
It’s raining like crazy now and the wind is still fierce.
We need the rain though so I am not complaining.
But I hate driving in it.
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WordPress seems to have a bug, my blog and others
will only open part of the time. Not sure what is up.
I tried to reply on Bee’s page today and it just would not let me.
So if you are having troubles, it’s not just you.
Will see if this posts.
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New music, well old music arrived yesterday. I had cassettes of
Yentl and Funny Girl but no cd’s. So I bought them for myself
and Jan and old Jim Croce. I had been listening to many songs
from both musicals on youtube and fell back in love with the music.
I had to have them for the studio! Jan and I sang Jim Croce songs
on the drive home last night. I love doing that with her, even if she
was a bit tipsy! I tucked her ;0 and the pups into bed and she went
right off to sleep. The hospital is stressing and wearing her out.
The night out with friends was good for her.
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And tell me where,
where is it written what it is I’m meant to be.
That I cant dare to have the chance to pick the fruit of every tree…
Or have my share, of every sweet imagined possibility…
yentl…poetry…
hugs to all.
I can’t imagine a kid taking that kind of medicine. I mean, I know they do, but I’m talking about how badly it would affect them. I am a grown woman, and a big girl at that, and oxy will knock me on my ass!! I can take percocet, which is the same basic drug, oxycodone, but not the continuous release version. Even taking the lowest amount, 5mg, and I’m loopy. I have percocet for the pelvic pain that sometimes just shuts me down it’s so severe. But I only take it when I can no longer stand it, and only if the 800mg of ibuprofen did nothing to take the edge off. I had oxycontin after my c-section because I told them I could tolerate percocet. Since oxy is the continuous release form, they thought it would control the pain better for me. I felt so sick and so out of it that I wouldn’t take it any more after that first dose. I had actually felt better on the morphine drip I had immediately following the surgery, but I didn’t want more of that either because I wanted to be alert. Vicodin does the same thing to me…yes they control the pain, but the side effects are unreal for me. And I end up with a sick headache for hours.
I can’t imagine WANTING to feel like that. If you’re in excruciating pain, then maybe. The sick feeling would be better than severe pain. But to feel that sick just for the heck of it? There’s nothing pleasant or “high” about it…it knocks me on my ass and makes me feel sick as a dog. And obviously, it’s killing these kids! I am horrified that the school hasn’t done anything to alert parents of this danger! Yes, parents know that drugs exist. But they should be notified that this particular drug is killing kids on a regular basis so that they can be a little more proactive and really speak to their kids like you did. Maybe you could write a letter to the editor of your newspaper in order to get people to sit up and take notice.
Sometimes I get read stories like this and get so nervous about what is ahead for my little girl. The temptations your kids face are bad enough - how will it be in ten years (less than that, really!)? Scary stuff.
I love the description of Los Reyes. I want to find a place like that…
I cant take anything really without out side effects, Mepe*rgan is a good
pain reliever for me that doesn’t cause nausea. Because it has phene*gran in it.
All drugs make me ill. Mep*ergan leaves me with a hangover from hell.
I could never take a vico*din or perc*ocet and keep it down.
I don’t like feeling drugged either.
I take ambien after a week of no sleep, but it doesn’t leave me drowsy.
There isn’t much chance for addiction with the few times I
have taken it! I am very aware that I have
an addictive family history and take care
with that truth. (which is why I don’t drink)
I haven’t heard if the latest kid is still fighting. Hilary said she
heard it was two kids. The others she doesn’t know about
haven’t been attributed to oxy as far as she knows,
but we get the behind the scenes scoop.
They are all related.
MB it is scary, which is why it is so important to talk openly.
You see by the example of Kate here that even that cant keep them safe.
Pray if you do that sort of thing.
Talk and pray.
The problem is these kids aren’t just taking the pills, either, they’re crushing them up and snorting them so they get the effect faster. Another issue is, that I could honestly go up to anyone in the school and say “Hey, do you know who I can get some drugs from?” and I’d easily get many names. It’s not like these people are just taking them themselves; they’re selling them for ridiculous amounts. The stupidity that resounds from the students at my school is alarming.
It’s so freaky what is available to our kids nowadays. I remember when I was in high school our big thing was getting drunk for dances.
Very scary times!! We’ve had discussions with our boys about drugs. It still scares me to no end, because it only takes one moment of stupidity and they can be dealing with fatal consequences. This is when the prayer factor comes into effect for me.
Thanks for this post. It will be a good topic to discuss with the boys.
I worry about someone putting something in her coke (soda, cola, pop)
It is all frightening.
Oh I just read what Hil. wrote.
Even scarier!!
Two more months and we are finished
with that place.