Courtney Klein

So my dad was already like a drinker, but at that point they declared him like officially declared him disabled.

So he was no longer working anymore.

And, you know, like I'm still like a teenager watching my dad go through this, like my dad can't work anymore.

My dad is constantly recovering from surgeries and like kind of holding that in that like I did that.

Like, that's my fault.

I did that.

So he had nerve damage from all the surgeries.

Like, every time they would do a surgery, it was, like, a known thing.

Like, that's going to cause you more nerve damage.

But we have to fix your arm.

You either don't have function in your arm or you have nerve damage.

And it was just, like, kind of a doom and gloom kind of thing.

I can't imagine now that I'm an adult, like...

being in that position and having a doctor say that constantly like this is where you're at this is your life there's no you're not going to have full function of your arm like that anymore so he was in constant pain just the nerve pain just i i remember that so vividly like he just complained all the time that he was in pain like it didn't matter what you did his arm hurt

And my mom was always taking care of him, recovering from the surgeries.

So he would drink to help the pain.

And then he also had the pain pills that they were constantly giving him to help the pain.

So he like, I don't even know how long it took, but he quickly became addicted to pain pills after that.

And I mean, I feel like that's such a common story.

that somebody has a surgery, they have a back injury, they have this, they have that, and people, you know, doctors are prescribing them pain pills because that's what you do, and they get addicted to pain pills.