{"id":418,"date":"2016-04-24T19:06:17","date_gmt":"2016-04-24T19:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soy-foundation.com\/home\/?page_id=418"},"modified":"2016-04-24T22:15:20","modified_gmt":"2016-04-24T22:15:20","slug":"your-stories","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/soy-foundation.com\/home\/?page_id=418","title":{"rendered":"Your Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What would have been helpful to our family and Jessie. By Arlene Last-Kolb.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1 if they had addressed the bulling that my son had to deal with almost daily. He had a speech impediment. Jessie couldn&#8217;t hear when he was young. It took us awhile to figure it out. He spent a whole year at child development at the children&#8217;s hospital. It was a program they ran to be able to observe very young children to be able to figure out what was going on. This is where I spent a whole year watching my son from a small room where he couldn&#8217;t see me but I could see them. He went to\u00a0speech therapy twice a week to learn sign language and to learn how to talk. So when he later started school he started with a aide to help him out. So you can imagine what happened to him at school.\u00a0The biggest regret\u00a0I have\u00a0is that I sent him to school.\u00a0Of course as he got older with social media it got worse.<\/p>\n<p>2 My son used marijuana to easy his pain and anxiety and as a parent it was hard to see him suffer. He graduated a head of his class, as he was very smart when it came to technology and music. He would have done much better if he could have gotten a trade or start on a career at a much younger age.<\/p>\n<p>3 It would have been helpful to have had a advocate at the hospital the first time Jessie overdosed. We had no idea what we we&#8217;re dealing with. We knew something was wrong with our son, but we didn&#8217;t know what to do, we we&#8217;re in such shock. Someone to help us would have been helpful. Someone to speak up and say you need to treat this family better.<\/p>\n<p>4 Immediate help. We we&#8217;re promised the world and my son was given hope and then we we&#8217;re kicked out of the St. Boniface and taken to Concordia. I now know looking back at what happened to us, I&#8217;m disgusted.<\/p>\n<p>5 Educate our emergency doctor&#8217;s and nurse, because it seems like they no nothing about addiction and lack the compassion to even care. There it a lack of compassion in the medical field.<\/p>\n<p>6. To get our doctor&#8217;s to stop prescribing our children drug&#8217;s to solve their problems.\u00a0They are self medicating our children. Their giving them drug&#8217;s that we as parent&#8217;s don&#8217;t know anything about.<\/p>\n<p>7. Hold doctor&#8217;s accountable for overprescribing. We have clinics and pharmacies on every corner. The same doctor&#8217;s than over prescribed oxytocin now run the methadone clinics<\/p>\n<p>8. We needed help and we didn&#8217;t get it.<\/p>\n<p>9 When my son suffered a weight lifting accident he was prescribed Percocet\u00a0and thing&#8217;s went bad from there. It gave him the relief from his suffering that he felt his whole life. Now don&#8217;t get me wrong my son had a good life, loved his family and many thing&#8217;s. Had his own home at 19 and owned two cat&#8217;s. He worked for us and just lived a couple of minute&#8217;s away. But the bullying that he experience\u00a0through out his life had a great effect on him. He was a\u00a0sensitive boy.<\/p>\n<p>10 I think we&#8217;re not prepared for this and many more families like mine\u00a0are going to experience the horrible loss of someone so dear to them, and they&#8217;ll say how did this happen to us. A hard working loving family.<\/p>\n<p>I heard something in a old movie I was watching\u00a0. a girl say&#8217;s to her dad &#8221; do you ever wish you had wing&#8217;s because common feet aren&#8217;t good enough&#8221; I think that was my son, he just wasn&#8217;t made for here, perhaps he is in a better place. Thank you Arlene Last-Kolb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What would have been helpful to our family and Jessie. By Arlene Last-Kolb. 1 if they had addressed the bulling that my son had to deal with almost daily. 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