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Cheryl admits that she’s often found her daughter “beat up, being pimped out, being kept in a hotel room on heroin.”
She’s seen her at her worst, and even post-overdose, but Cheryl says this time was nothing like before.
“I wasn’t prepared for what I saw in the emergency room, because that’s the worst I’ve ever seen her. […] She’s my only daughter, my best friend. She was supposed to start her new job today, now she’s on life support.”
Doctors believe that the heroin Elaina took was laced with fentanyl.
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Just three days later, they informed Cheryl that her daughter’s muscles were deteriorating, she was in liver and kidney failure, and showed no brain activity.
Before making the hardest decision of her life—to remove her daughter and best friend from life support—Cheryl took one final picture with Elaina in her hospital bed.
Cheryl prays her daughter’s death may not be in vain, but rather act as a wake up call to the deadly threat of heroin addiction.
She says she hopes the photo will “force other parents, other addicts—everyone—to wake up.”