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Past three o\u2019clock in the morn\u00ading, two weeks before Easter. I sat in the darkness of my car, parked in my driveway, feeling as if I were go\u00ading insane. I\u2019d been awake all night. I couldn\u2019t stop twitching, moving, grabbing at myself. My mind raced. Bad voices clawed the edges of my brain. I tried everything I could to stop them. Racing up and down my attic stairs. Doing frantic jumping jacks. Bicycling my legs in the air. But it was hopeless. On the streets, they had a name for what ailed me: dope sick.<\/p>\n

At 64, I was in withdrawal from opioids. For 28 years, I\u2019d been pre\u00adscribed OxyContin for pain relief. I have a genetic condition that causes invasive, noncancerous tumors to grow on nerve cells all over my body. I\u2019d undergone 34 surgeries over the years to remove the worst of them. But the ones that remained caused constant pain.<\/p>\n

At first, the OxyContin was a god\u00adsend. It allowed me to keep my job as a nurse and to live a normal life. But my town in Appalachia had been gripped hard by the opioid crisis. My insurer stopped paying for Oxy\u00adContin. My doctor said new insur\u00adance rules required me to enroll at a pain management clinic for a new prescription. A specialist there took me off OxyContin entirely and put me on a new, weaker medicine for nerve pain to be taken every 12 hours.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019ll help you more than the Oxy\u00adContin did,\u201d the specialist assured me. \u201cYou might have some with\u00addrawal symptoms as you go from one drug to the other. They shouldn\u2019t be too bad.\u201d<\/p>\n

The last three days had been hell on earth! I\u2019d been taking OxyContin for a long time. While I\u2019d never deviated from my doctor\u2019s instructions and she\u2019d tapered me off slightly before I quit cold turkey, I\u2019d built up a strong dependency<\/a>. Deprived of OxyContin, my body panicked. It ached like a giant toothache. Pain signals coursed up and down my arms and legs. I called the clinic. I was told to tough it out. How? I shook with chills. My skin felt as if insects were crawling all over it. I couldn\u2019t keep anything down. Worst of all, my mind buzzed with bad voices. They taunted me endlessly.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s going to be like this forever, Roberta\u2026. <\/em><\/p>\n

You\u2019re going crazy. <\/em><\/p>\n

There\u2019s no point trying. Just give up already. <\/em><\/p>\n

No one else knew what I was go\u00ading through except my sister Rebekkah. She\u2019d come to stay with me after I left the pain clinic. I\u2019d sent a brief e-mail to friends in my writing group, asking for prayers because I was going through a \u201crough time.\u201d But I kept it vague. I was ashamed of my dependence on OxyContin. What would people think?<\/p>\n

No one loves you. <\/em><\/p>\n

Even God\u2019s left you. <\/em><\/p>\n

You\u2019re all alone. <\/em><\/p>\n

Not sure what else to do, I\u2019d ban\u00adished myself to my car in the early hours of the morning. It was usually the place I did my best praying. Now that I was here, though, I couldn\u2019t think. I could barely get Jesus\u2019 name out. I had too much trouble breathing. I was going to die in this car. God, where are you when I really need you? Have you totally left me this time? <\/em><\/p>\n

The dashboard clock told me it was four o\u2019clock. A piece of advice someone had told me ages ago came to me: \u201cIt\u2019s the friends you can call at 4 a.m. who really matter.\u201d I thought of my dear friend Sue. Her husband used oxygen for a lung condition\u2014maybe it would help? We usually talked every day, but I hadn\u2019t heard her voice since this whole withdrawal thing. She\u2019d probably been calling, worried sick. I hadn\u2019t checked my voice mails, e-mails or mailbox for days. I dialed her number on my cell and told her my situation.<\/p>\n

\u201cCome right over,\u201d Sue said. \u201cI\u2019ll get the oxygen set up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rebekkah drove me to Sue\u2019s house in the cold, black night. Sue tucked me into a makeshift bed on her sofa and got the oxygen. I breathed it into my greedy lungs. She parked her chair by the sofa and massaged my agitated legs. Within minutes, I was no longer starved for air. I began to relax. Three hours later, I woke up to the smell of coffee and raisin toast. I\u2019d slept for the first time in days.<\/p>\n

Sue fixed up the guest room so I could stay with her as long as I needed. The pain and panic persist\u00aded. I didn\u2019t know how much longer I could survive. I thrashed wildly at night, hitting my head against the brass headboard. Sometimes I awoke to the sound of Sue playing Easter hymns on her piano, convinced I was hallucinating.<\/p>\n

Then, four days before Easter, something changed. I awoke in the middle of the night with the most bizarre feeling. As if I were being held, wrapped in a giant hug. Safe and secure, buoyed by some force. As if being lifted up somehow. Tentatively, I listened for the voices. They were still there. But they were differ\u00adent this time.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re going to make it, Roberta! <\/em><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t be afraid. <\/em><\/p>\n

You aren\u2019t going to just survive. You\u2019re going to thrive. <\/em><\/p>\n

This new medicine is going to work wonders!<\/em><\/p>\n

I felt strong. Confident. Coura\u00adgeous. It defied all logic! I grabbed my journal and wrote down every\u00adthing I was hearing. These voices\u2026they weren\u2019t mine.<\/p>\n

The pain didn\u2019t immediately sub\u00adside. But I knew, without a doubt, I was going to be okay. On Easter morning, I awoke to Sue practicing the piano again, singing the hymn \u201cHe Arose.\u201d I zipped up my jacket, poured myself a cup of coffee and found my way out to the front porch. It was daylight. I climbed into Sue\u2019s big wicker porch swing and listened to the birds singing. Across the street, I could see a wife planting flowers as her husband washed windows. Yellow and white daffodils had pushed their way through the wintry soil. Pink dogwoods were in glorious bloom. It had been ages since I\u2019d seen or contemplated such things. I thought again of the voices. The good ones, now running through my head regularly.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s nothing to fear, Roberta. You\u2019re going to make it!<\/em><\/p>\n

I knew this time I would.<\/p>\n

After 10 days at Sue\u2019s, I was well enough to return home. As I rejoined the living, I finally listened to my voice mails, read my e-mail and col\u00adlected the big stack of colorful en\u00advelopes and packages from my mailbox. I hadn\u2019t told a single soul, out\u00adside my inner circle, what I was going through. And yet dozens\u2014many dozens\u2014of people had prayed for me<\/a> anyway.<\/p>\n

\u201cI sensed you\u2019re in crisis, Rober\u00adta,\u201d one friend wrote. \u201cI\u2019m praying for swift healing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt moved to pray for new pain relief for you,\u201d another e-mailed.<\/p>\n

Wanda in Montana placed a lovely lace handkerchief inside healing passages in her Bible, prayed the verses and then tucked the handker\u00adchief inside a gorgeous card she sent me. Peggy and Mike in upstate New York mailed me a comfort blan\u00adket they\u2019d prayed over. Karen in Georgia had been pausing by a bush of red roses every morning to talk to God specifically about me. The prayers got more and more specific.<\/p>\n

\u201cI suddenly felt you need God\u2019s peace, Roberta. Lord, I am praying that you be with my friend and com\u00adfort her.\u2026<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDearest Roberta, I knew you were in trouble, so I gathered my entire church and we were anointed with oil and prayed for you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Readers of my stories that have appeared in Guideposts<\/em> and Myste\u00adrious Ways<\/em> wrote in too.<\/p>\n

\u201cI found your address online and had to write to say that I am praying for you,\u201d wrote a woman named Pauline from Michigan. \u201cI sense you are in difficulty and am asking God for your healing from pain.\u201d<\/p>\n

The prayers went on. And on. I went back and checked the dates on the messages, then compared them to the dates in my journal. They were all dated a few days before Easter. The very time I\u2019d felt inexplicably held.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the friends you can call at 4 a.m….\u201d the advice went.<\/p>\n

I had <\/em>called. The greatest friend of all\u2014and his network of followers\u2014had answered.<\/p>\n

Roberta shares 5 things she wishes people knew about opioid dependency.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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