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Hello there. My name is Tonja and I reside near the Puget Sound area here in the state of Washington.

Presently I am employed as a private-pay in-home-care provider.

I am a wife, mother and grandmother and love to ride our motorcycle, take road trips to the ocean, swim, fish, cook, read, write and research using the internet.

My favorite areas of research are varied, but include investing in precious metals, particularly silver, how to make money online, science, herbs and other natural remedies for medicinal purposes, food recipes, biblical literature, physiology, diseases of the mind/body, the paranormal and much more...

I also have more to share-the unexpected fatal overdose of my 22-year-old son Timmy,  in 2008.

He suffered respiratory arrest while in an opiate-induced sleep. It took the family members of my son's roommate, an off-duty paramedic who lived close by and then the paramedics on duty that arrived... to eventually rescusitate Timmy.

Very tragically we were to learn that extensive damage had already been done. Timmy was diagnosed with severe brain damage almost 3 days later. HIs toxicology report stated he had ingested methadone and xanax. Neither drug had been prescribed to him.

Physically, my son kept up a courageous battle despite his severe brain damage, but there came a point where I let go and allowed myself to realize that this war had to end. Thankfully it did. My son succumbed to brain death about 12 days later.

Since this occured over the Labor Day weekend at that time, nothing could be finalized until the "holiday" was over with. That only prolonged our agony for another 4 days. We knew Timmy was brain-dead and would not be provided any medical evidence to support this, and no possibility of discontinuing his life support until the actual work week resumed on the following Tuesday. 

I now despise 3-day weekends because of what we went through.

Please heed my warning about the dangers of methadone, especially if it is taken with other drugs such as xanax or valium. I can't write a hub here giving more specific details and timelines about what happened to my son, because my story is already posted on another site. That is against Hubpages criteria. However, I can refer you to that site:

http://myspace.com/tonja_teutonic

If any hub or other site I mention are of any help to you or gives you any insight, please leave a comment.

God Bless You And Yours !!