Rachel Forde
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Yes, you're an addict, but you just had major abdominal surgery.
And I'm like, but I cannot take that.
You know, no, it's OK.
You're in the hospital.
You're controlled.
And I was like, like, Brenda, it's very hard to explain to anybody who doesn't know what it is to feel the addiction.
I am very strong in my recovery.
I hope to remain this strong in my recovery.
But that's because I'm clean and sober.
If I had taken that medication, I don't know what it would do to my mind, to my persona.
You know, what it would alter, what chemical imbalance.
It would just tip over that little bit of an iceberg and I'm back to square one.
Something go off in the brain.
You know, and nobody, nobody can guarantee me that.
I would like to believe that I would have been OK, but I can't guarantee that and I
The life I have today, I am giving up for nobody.
Nobody.
And definitely not a small little brown tablet.