Quote From: outofmymndThanks for your help I never thought I had a "good handle" on anything......LOL. Our trip was good, was nice to get away from here for a while. My daughter just told me yesterday that her friend has stopped doing heroin, but is compensating with cocaine....doing more of it to make up for the lack of heroin. Apparently, (from what I am told) she is only doing cocaine and alcohol now....has given the rest up. I am not sure if this is true, or if she is just saying to apeese (sp?) my daughter. Who knows.......we are still working on things with her, and she has made some progress....i.e. calling my daughter more and things along that line. I guess I will see how far this can go, and then make a judgement call from there.....and no worries, I won't let it go on long!!!!
Thanks again for your help, it has helped a lot. It has been so long since I was in her shoes, I tend to forget!!!!
Tammy
First, thanks for the update! I'm glad the trip went well.
I do have to disagree with one thing you said, however.
we are still working on things with her, and she has made some progress....i.e. calling my daughter more and things along that line.
It doesn't sound like she's making much progress to me :) The only true barometer of her progress is whether she's stopped using....calling your daughter doesn't help either one of them all that much (because it runs the risk of drawing your daugher into the circle of misery).
However, I do believe you when you say you won't let it go on too long. In my opinion, if it starts messing with your daughter's head, or she gets so caught up in it her other friendships suffer (not to mention school and activities) that's when your daughter is paying too high a price for caring.
I don't mean to sound like a broken record, but do please keep us posted. Now you've got me curious what happens :)
