Tell Me About Yours

Day 1190.

This is the precious face of someone lost to addiction from overdose.

Addiction does not discriminate .

Everyone is someone’s somebody.

He is mine.

International opioid overdose awareness day is August 31st. We put this text across photos of our lost ones.

People struggle with the technicalities. I have templates in some fancy-ass software (because I can’t do it the app way) so that I can do it for others in the various on-line grief groups, at their request.

It doesn’t matter who they are, unless you too, have lost one. Some are older, some are so young. I stare at their beautiful, beloved faces.

Their Mothers are brave and wanting to reach out to the world to show these precious faces. Openness driven by the need to end the stigma of the opioid crisis by putting these precious faces to the statistics.

I write this now as my New Year’s resolution:

Somehow, I will reach out far and wide and visit as many of those who suffer as I do. as I can.

Not just on Facebook but in real life, real face to face, heart to heart connection.

I will drive across the USA and finish Luke’s journey home to California from Boston and share stories, laugh, cry, rage.

Collect their names .

Collect their stories.

Show the world who we are.

Because we are not just another stat, a casualty of a faceless crisis and nor are our lost loved ones, they are all someone’s precious, precious, deeply loved person. Luke is mine.

I would love to hear about yours.

You know where to find me.

sheila@lukelove.org