An awful tragedy
From: Sally Grigg (lostcst@mcn.org)
Thu Aug 9 15:02:11 2001
Dear friends and anyone else reading this board, recently, a young, 20
year old girl who had just been diagnosed HIV positive stole a few
opiate prescription pain pills and died. We believe that she had only
taken a couple of pills plus drank a small amount of alcohol. She was
not trying to kill herself, but was trying to "escape the reality of her
dreaded disease". After her death it was learned that the tests were
wrong. She was not HIV positive at all. She had vomited during the
night from the pill/alcohol combination and it presumably went into
her lungs, killing her.
So, please dear friends, never keep your pills where they can be stolen
by anyone: your kids, their friends, the neighbors, visitors, out and
out crooks, etc. and if you or anyone you know are tested for
something like aids, get a confirmation test. My husband is a volunteer
fireman and he said it was one of the worst calls he had ever been on.
They tried to bring her around. She was so young, pretty and healthy
looking, but they couldn't bring back the dead. We pray to God that she
is with him and resting peacefully in Heaven.
I massaged her hands and feet for an hour calling for her to come back
but she couldn't. After they prolaimed her dead I said a prayer service
over her from memory. With great sorrow, Sally
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