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So you want to know more about why she died do you? Well here's the whole story. Around 88' or 89' she went to a convention and slipped in something and damamged her teeth. The top row that is. So because of 29 eye operations(Congental Glomaca) before she was 16, she couldn't think of the word NEEDLE. So going to a normal dentist was quite out of the question. So she never went to see one. Around 94' she started getting headaches(transfered pain from her teeth). So she started using tlyonal and for a while that worked. Then in about 95' she started useing Vicoden ES for the pain and it did a even better job. But before long she got used to them and had to use more of them, and more and more! Till she was taking 8 pills every 4 hours or 40 a day. That's when she heard about Methodone, so she went to a clinic to get on it. The doc told her that he couldn't put her on it for pain, but if she could prove she had an adicttion to an Opate then he'd put her on it because of that. So we went out and got a pharmacy record spaning a few years showing how much she used. Our life became our own again because we had more time for things (instead of finding a Dr to get vics from). But it took 100mgs.of Meth. to handle the pain (early stages) Later she started using tlyonal for small pain and then it was Ibuprofin 800mgs. And even stronger when she could get away with it. Then one day she told her favorate Pedeatriction (the one who gave her a lot of Vics) that she wanted Prozac for depression. Well he gave them to her. Ok folks here comes the hard part in hindsight. She called up a pharmacy and asked "How many prozac could one take and not overdose?" The answer she received was four so she started to take that many at a time. For around 1 month and when she ran out early she just went back for more from the same Pedeatriction. Well as luck would have it we were told (by a friend) on how bad that stuff was for people so she weaned herself off Prozac. But still used the Methadone. And to my knowlege that's what killed her. Now as I understand it (guessing here) say the adverage person can handle around 150mgs. of Methdone. She was useing a 100mgs. but for some reason the prozac doubled her methadone dose to effectly 200mgs. and its that level as to why she died.
Time and Place:We were sitting watching our 2 TV's seeing my favorite show Sailor Moon which is a half hour show on Cartoon Network which begins at 4:00P.M. weekdays. Suddenly she drops her ashtray and looks like she's asleap, So I take her cigerate from her and start shaking her to rouse her. But I get no response, so I lye her on the floor, check for breath and pulse. Weak pulse and no breathing, so I tryed to remember what I'd learned about C.P.R. and Rescue Breathing. Durning her exhale there was a wet gurgle. We were in the living room but the phone was in the bedroom, so I rushed there to call 911 but when I recived a automatic forwarding (and not wanting to leave her alone for too long I set the phone down and went back to breath for her, but when I got back the line was dead. So I'd called again. And this time waited for them to answer, when they did I explaned what was going on and then went back to breath some more. To make a long story short Paramedics arrived and took her across the street to Queen of Angels Hollywood Prespartarn Medical Center where 2 days before she went there and was turned away without being seen, all they did was give her a referal to an eye doctor. So after leaveing there she'd said "I don't care if I'm dyeing I'm not gona go back there ever again!!!" But when I arrived at the hospital the doc came out and told me that "she's arrived under full arest and so far no response, so we'll give it another 10 min. and give it up." So that is how that happened, there is more to the story (of course) but my fingers would tire out before I got that far.