A LONG ROAD TO SOBRIETY

So I am about to speak of a topic that most people would rather sweep under the rug. It is very real to us and too familiar. As most of you know Ty and I got together almost 5 years ago...We were young. About 10 months later Tyler had come to me with devastating news, something I suspected but didn't want to come to terms with. He told me he needed help, this crushed me. My boyfriend of almost a year was a heroin addict. How could I not know?? I kept asking myself. Naive, thinking this would be hard but would be over with soon. Little did I know what we were in for. We went to Ty's family I told them he needs help, I told them he came to me but was too afraid to ask them for help. We soon visited our family Dr. In need of any help or advice he could give us. He prescribed him Oxycontin to wein him from a dangerous addiction. Without this method Tyler could have died from withdrawals.

Two weeks later we would revisit our Dr. not for Ty but for me...WE WERE PREGNANT! How at this time in our crazy lives could we be having a baby? This I believed was a gift from god. This is what helped Tyler stay strong and stay on the path to becoming sober one day. We were so scared at first! We knew in our hearts no questions asked we were keeping this baby! Well back to Ty and Oxycontin soon came another drug and another drug. Thinking he was clean, boy was a wrong. I will never know if he tried Heroin after we left the Dr. office. I know he was addicted to the pills now. Trying so many different methods soon coming to Suboxone then methadone and back to our regular Dr. who vowed to help Ty get out of this mess. So he started Ty on Methadone in 2008 just last year, controlling his dosage and monitoring him every two weeks to three weeks then to four weeks. Ty was doing really well. With every return appointment came a lower dosage and lower quantity and With Tyler's Strength and willingness and readiness to be DONE he was in January 2009! This is a dedication to his sobriety for 6 mths and 23 days!! I am sooo Proud of him!

Tyler is such an amazing person! I have never known him clean...this was scary for me. Its finally like he is alive, living his life for the first time in 5 years! He is more outgoing and exited about life! He has changed so much its almost night and day! I look up to him and thank god for Saving the love of my life and our family! I wouldn't want to be without him. Tyler is such an amazing person and has inspired me in so many ways. That is such a difficult task and he Concorde it! So I know this was a long story and sometimes people are surprised to hear this about him and us but people need to know...Need to know that it can be done! There is hope! You just CAN'T GIVE UP EVER!!! Keep faith and hope. This song you are hearing on my page is Tyler's song dedicated to him. He showed this song to me the other day and I asked him to tell me what it was about and he said I'd know once I listened. So I did, Ty started it for me then left the room come the chorus I knew what it was about and I looked back to see Ty standing and tears rolling down his face...This was his life and how he feels about his sobriety in this song, as if someone wrote this especially for him. I stood up walked over to him and we both cried. It has been such a long road! Its always going to be there, But we are strong he IS STRONG and can keep his sobriety! I BELIEVE IN HIM! I love you Babe!