Letter of Hope from a Chronic Pain Patient

Divine Intervention

This is my story.  A journey that I wish no one. 

It started over twenty years ago with chronic back problems.  A pain pill here and there, each time stronger miligrams.  Little did I know what damage I was doing to myself and my family.

Well, it finally caught up to me.  I went in to the hospital for spinal surgery twice in one year.  The last surgery was like icing on a cake, it is where all my problems began:  My addiction to opiates.  They were available to me every ten minutes at my desire.  Oh yeah!  I was in pig heaven!  Feeling no pain at all!!  Little did I know what I was doing to myself. 

This really was just getting me going to my addiction.  After discharging from the hospital, I was given a prescription for oxycotin.  Wow! more pain killers!  Oh how dumb I was.  I thought I knew it all! 

After theirty four days of being in a haze, it was time to get professional help.  The next day I was a basketcase!  Oh God, what do I do?!?!  I had enough sense to call my EAP Program for help that I serioulsy needed!  I knew what I had to tod.  I had to get clean off of the drugs that had me a total mess. 

I was referred to Hemet Valley Recovery Center for a medical detoxification from all drugs that I was on for so long.  If it had not been for Hemet Valley Recovery Center, I probably be dead by now.  The doctors and staff were very awesome and very caring for my well being to get well and clean.  The staff got me through my darkest days. 

I am clean and sober now and with God's help, forever!!

Sincerely,

Steven M.

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To whom it may concern,

I entered Hemet Valley Recovery Center (HVRC) in early October 2009 hopelessly addicted to prescription pain medication which I had been prescribed for multiple back surgeries. I was at the end of my rope, out of excuses and the future looked dark on the path I was going down.

I am writing to express my gratitude to the staff and treatment team at HVRC for their professional skills and deep compassion they have for the many like me who need detox and treatment. With their help and guidance they led me back to a new life, and helped me end the life of horror and misery I was living in. Their never-ending willingness to believe in me when I had stopped believing in myself has brought me to a life I never dreamt possible.

Sincerely,



Eric K.