On 12/21/2014 4:59 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:

> With those meds it was a serious addiction problem... look into who
> prescribed those meds... more likely she was obtaining them illegally
> on the street market, no legit MD would write for all those.

I was surprised an MD would prescribe all of those, too, but each pill
bottle had the prescribing doctor as her oncologist. She had a bunch of
them just refilled and still in the pharmacy bags when we were cleaning
out her house. I know she was in terrible pain, but the number of pain
killers seemed excessive to me.

It's sad
> if no one intervened, she needed help.

She was under the care of multiple doctors. We knew about her pain, and
her chemo sickness but the manic or bi-polar was undiagnosed. I know
there was some sort of depression going on but she'd said many times
she'd just had enough of the chemo, the doctors, the pain, everything. I
don't think she OD'd or anything, I just think she might have possibly
been on too many meds and lost her balance. I know I've had several
falls due to a drop foot and I practically had to learn all over again
how to walk. I was lucky with my falls that I didn't have the serious
damage that she did.

I lost a best friend
> sister-in-law like that, her husband would beat the shit out of her
> and her two teen aged sons abused her unmercilessly. I well
> understand how sometimes no one can help.

I'm sorry for the loss of your friend, especially under those conditions.

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