monday, however, was a whole other story: the 2 roomies are hanging out with each other, running errands etc., i go to my Orthopedics appointment (my carpal tunnel surgery is scheduled for Oct.). by late afternoon J comes back to the house & asks me to cut a pair of old jeans up for cut-off shorts, to wear to the river bank with T.
around 8 pm there's a knock at the door, i can hear the key going into the lock just as i'm unlocking the door. when i open it, the neighbor (do-do) is there holding up J to steady her at the doorway; he tells me she's taken too much of her meds and she needs help to her bed. i take her hand and start leading her to the couch, i'm also on the phone with my mom; just as i turned around J lets go of my hand and falls on the coffee table. i hang up with mom and get J picked up and set her down on the couch. what little talking J is doing is just slurred mutterings; trying to figure out if i'm dealing with an overdose of some kind. i get J to her bed, eventually, mostly carrying-walking her down the hallway because by now she can barely stand up before falling straight down immediately. J even fell off the bed twice before i could get her seated on the bed. as i was leaving her room i thought about leaving her door unlocked just for tonight but i locked it anyway at her request.
i got back on the phone with mom and gave her the highlights on my roomie J. by then mom suggested calling 911 to see if she needed to go to the ER since she was overdosing on something.
i called 911 and told them she was overdosing and in a locked bedroom do i needed both Fire & EMTs to get to her. the EMTs showed up first and we kept talking to J through the door until we got inside to get to her. we get J loaded up on the gurney and they head out to the ER. once they left i asked do-do if T left her in the driveway or did J walk home from the river since her shoes were missing too. He said T dropped her off in the driveway and she was already falling down out of the car. J had staggered and fell on his porch next door, so he walked her over to our house; she fell at least once more during that walk to the door.
i kept leaving text messages & voicemails for T and our case manager C about the whole incident.
the next morning i get a call from D asking about J and if she made it home from the ER; she called there and she had been released already. this concerned me since she left the house with no shoes. J was still sleeping it off in her room, apparently she walked home or found a ride. J had mixed alcohol with her meds, most of which you can't do anyway.
i was just thankful J had survived the whole ordeal.
i spent the rest of tuesday trying to come down from the stress of monday night; mostly avoiding J so i wouldn't snap at her.
J has apologized profusely to me about that night and C apologized to me for having to deal with the crisis as well as thanked me for everything.
i told J what both T did and what do-do did for her that night; 'do-do may be a jerk but he at least helped you to the door which T did NOT.'
on the plus side: i have a job interview tomorrow afternoon (prayers for a gig)
