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nurse friend help guide me in dosing her with tranquilizers until we got her into Global (apparently<br />

it's how they do it in the hospital). I sat with her, <strong>and</strong> I know anyone in that kind of pain would have<br />

used their resources to not feel that withdrawal pain, but they didn't believe her or me when I<br />

begged for them to let her back into treatment that morning. She was made to leave <strong>and</strong> left early<br />

that morning in the middle of nowhere.<br />

That was her last try at help. June 26, 2020 was our last time seeing our baby girl in person. On<br />

June 27, 2020, at 10:15 am she texted me asking for her insurance card to go into detox. She<br />

was desperate to go through detox. To be back with her baby girls who missed her terribly. She<br />

was supposed to come get them, but we never saw her.<br />

For 3 months I searched everywhere <strong>and</strong> every lead I received from social media. l found these<br />

abusive people who sell drugs, drug mule, or human traffic these weak in addiction. I had many<br />

missing persons with the surrounding county police stations <strong>and</strong> shared them on my social pages.<br />

On Sept. 24, 2020, I got a call no parent wants to get. The person said to me, "it's Ms. Smith from<br />

the Riverside Coroner’s office, I have a young woman here I believe is your daughter, here are the<br />

tattoos <strong>and</strong> identifiers. She told me she was walking down the train tracks in the middle of the<br />

tracks. The train conductor honked for a mile, my daughter looked over her right shoulder <strong>and</strong><br />

stumbled off to the left but never looked back to see if she made it far enough <strong>and</strong> was struck. I<br />

sunk in <strong>and</strong> lost everything inside me. The worst part, she said the accident was on June 28, 2020<br />

just a day after I spoke with my daughter when she was begging for help. She was given a lethal<br />

dose of drugs <strong>and</strong> later I found out it was a fentanyl mix with a high potency. There was heroin,<br />

meth, codeine, morphine, norco, penicillin, nor- fentanyl, Carfentanyl <strong>and</strong> the fentanyl was<br />

14.800mg. I couldn’t see my daughter at the coroners or the mortuary because they had her body<br />

for three months <strong>and</strong> it was decomposed aggressively. The coroner told me they were getting<br />

ready to dispose of her body when they found me via the social media post I made. I would have<br />

searched my whole life for her, how tormenting that would have been. Heartbroken I started to<br />

scream <strong>and</strong> cried because we had tried to do everything in our strength to help her, she fought so<br />

hard for resources with her doctors <strong>and</strong> detox, to no avail. I write all this to say, it’s incredibly hard,<br />

almost impossible to go on with such deep pain, but God <strong>and</strong> my Lord sustains us. I'm still<br />

pushing through for answers <strong>and</strong> making people aware of addiction <strong>and</strong> what to do if your loved<br />

ones are suffering with a SUD or been given a lethal dose of fentanyl. The biggest thing I say all<br />

the time now, "LOVE THEM WITH YOUR WHOLE HEART, GIVING EVERY PART OF YOU<br />

EVEN IF YOU FEEL YOU DONT HAVE IT IN YOU AND YOU’RE TIRED, BECAUSE THE<br />

TOUGH LOVE THING NEEDS TO BE REPLACED WITH GOD LOVE!!<br />

At the end of the day, the doctors were my daughter’s first drug dealers, <strong>and</strong> they kept her using<br />

for years without any real help. I choose what to do with that information, it’s painful! Our life now<br />

is living for my daughter’s girls, raising them in a loving home, <strong>and</strong> reminding them their mama<br />

wanted so much to be their mom, because she was the best mom two little girls could have.<br />

Qarinna Leal Richardson was my youngest daughter, one of my best friends, her story <strong>and</strong> her<br />

love of life will continue to raise awareness for all who live in this world.<br />

God bless,<br />

S<strong>and</strong>ra Martinez (Qarinna's mom)<br />

Riverside, California

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