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Ryan

As Ryan’s drug use continued to increase, he became paranoid and extremely angry. There were rumors going around that his fiancée was involved with other men. Ryan was miserable. He believed he had worms and other parasites throughout his body and that they were trying to eat his insides. He picked at his skin until there were holes. He was having frequent outbreaks of MRSA and staff infection. Once when I took him to the hospital for a severe MRSA outbreak, the doctor treated the infection and then told him to get help for his obvious drug abuse because getting off drugs would prevent further outbreaks.

We urged Ryan to get treatment for his drug abuse, but he didn’t think he had a problem. Rehab wouldn’t fix the only problems he thought he had: financial and relationship.

That Christmas was horrible for my grandson. His parents could only afford one gift for him even though they always had money for drugs. My family stepped up and gave the child the Christmas he deserved. It really disappointed me that they chose drugs over presents for their toddler.