Intro. and background

Hi everyone,
I thought I'd start this blog because I wanted to see who else out there wants to talk about what it's like to lose a son or a daughter. Or for that matter, anyone you're really close to. My son passed away January 31, 2008. It's hard to believe that it will be almost 2 years now. I think about him all the time. I have always heard that it's really hard to lose a child but I never really knew what they were talking about until it happened to me. What makes it so bad is that he was 3 months shy of turning 21 years old. He died of an accidental prescription drug overdose. He was a college student who worked part-time and shared a house with another guy who was also a college student. I knew he liked to party but I figured he was like all of his friends his age who "knew how to handle it". I wish I would have known then what I know now. I guess I was always trusting and I didn't realize that drugs and alcohol had played such a major role in his life. Another reason why I'm writing this blog is to try to bring awareness to how big of a problem drugs and alcohol are to teenagers and college students. Especially prescription drugs - I didn't know they were so readily available and easy to get. I will end this now. I have so much I want to share like how I've also survived being a child of an alcoholic father and the survivor of my children's father who committed suicide when they were little.
Plus my mom died of lung cancer not even 5 months after my son passed away. I guess you can see why I need to write.
I have to go...thanks for listening.
Nancy