I did it. I finally found an apartment for my daughter that I can afford and that she could hopefully afford on her own eventually. I had a real good moment yesterday while renting the apartment. I went alone to rent it and the manager wanted to see Jami so I went to the hotel to wake her and told her that I needed her to get up and clean up. She said, “OK Mom, I’ll go to the Methadone Clinic,” and I burst out laughing and said, “That’s great! but I just meant I need you to get dressed and do your hair to meet your new apartment manager!”
Later we talked and she was serious about the Methadone Clinic but she has been smoking Marijuana to ease off the heroin and they won’t take you there if you have Marijuana in your system (who makes these rules???) so we either have to wait, or find her a private doctor to do it for us, or she has to go cold turkey. I have some Methadone my doctor gives me for pain that I could use but then what would I use for pain? Maybe I could go to the Methadone Clinic but I suppose you have to have Heroin in your system…
At lest I have her here in Omaha finally where I know the county system well enough to get her some kind of help for her MRSA and whatever else she needs. There is even a system that the county will pay her rent but it takes a couple of months to get in the program. I will sign her up for it just to be safe but hope she will be able to pay her own way within a couple of months. Her apartment manager advised her to get on the county system and go back to school which is an excellent idea, too, but he knows nothing of the hurdles we have to cross first.
I am extremely excited to have a chance to get her CA MRSA treated properly!!! Also, I have read of may cases where victims couldn’t get rid of CA MRSA in their family until they moved out of the infected home. Maybe we lost some bugs in the moving! I have all of her belongings in a storage room and plan to clean and disinfect everything before I take it over to her.
So, here’s to a fresh start and hopefully the beginning of the end of this war with MRSA and drug addiction. Pray with me, please!