My Grandma Addiction

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For as long as I can remember, my father has called my grandma every night to find out how she is doing and what medicines she has taken. As a long-suffering chronic pain patient, she routinely experiences immobilizing pain. We got the frantic call that she was laying at the bottom of the stairs in a pool of blood at 3 in the morning. At this moment 5 years ago, I truly realized how serious her addiction was. My family means everything to me, especially my grandma. Understanding her pain and suffering is heartbreaking and has shaped my world up until this point. My grandma has struggled with back pain for over 40 years. Nine back surgeries and loads of pain medications have done little to help her. After my grandfather died, she had even less

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lives. With social work I believe I can do this in a caring and supportive way. I have gained some insight into mental health while caring for my grandma and the difficulties she faced on a daily basis while suffering with Alzheimer's disease this is one area I would like to gain more knowledge on. Another family member suffered from drug and alcohol addiction and I witnessed the effects it had on his mental health and the effects drugs had on his family. These personal experiences instilled in me further…

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nineteen-ninety-six, my mother had just gotten news that her father, my grandfather, had passed away. She was distraught, simply because she couldn’t get to the funeral back in Colorado because of a slight impairment of being nine months pregnant; she then realized that her father wouldn’t get the opportunity to meet his grand-daughter. Two weeks later my mom found herself in agony, she couldn’t stand up, my dad wasn’t home, my oldest brother was at school, and my other brother was with the neighbors. My dad had…

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