"My Arm Has Gotten Worse Since The Last Interview." | A drug addict interview in Baltimore, MD (4K)

[@raelferguson5611]

Past paramedic here. Maggots in a wound is a HELPFUL thing for emergencies. They keep the wound clean pretty much til you can get the victim to the hospital.

[@WhatsyourIQ1]

WHAT!!!!! Not convinced

[@stephinwy]

@@raelferguson5611 leeches do that, not maggots. Maggots are fly eggs that hatch in dark, dank, rotting disgustingness after a fly has landed on everything from cow dung to open rotting flesh. Leeches have medicinal value, maggots do not.

[@stephinwy]

@@raelferguson5611 soooo, I’m wrong, sort of. They have to be maggots cultivated specifically for wound debasement, and monitored very closely to ensure they only eat necrotic tissue and don’t burrow under healthy tissue. What would be considered “street maggots” as opposed to “lab maggots” carry all sorts of diseases, per Google. So basically, don’t be scooping up any ol’ larvae and put them in your wound and think they are going to save your appendage, and don’t expect me to be happy when I unwrap your arm and maggots start dropping on the floor of my sterile ER. 🤢

[@annfreels3071]

@@WhatsyourIQ1it’s true!

[@AstraSystem]

​@WhatsyourIQ1 Maggots only eat dead tissue, so yes, this is true. It keeps the infection at bay.

[@paigetaranto]

Amputation means a recovery in the hospital which means no access to street drugs. This is why she’s putting off the surgery. Surgery on her arm entails sobriety.

[@daynawoodrowski3155]

I am a 60 year old heroin addict with over 20 years sobriety, because I learned I was worth something in this world. I pray she finds a purpose and reason to go on...

[@theandrogynousmisogynist]

You’d think that would be good for you since they shoot you full of drugs during those times, but these people are tooo far gone.

[@DasGoodSoup]

@@daynawoodrowski3155youre lucky back then it wasnt just fentanyl

[@gaylelauren5691]

Michelle - if u see this . Please get help, you are worth it. Things do get better. There is a better life after addiction. I have 9 years clean from heroin and crack. I have just graduated w my LPN and I have a wonderful job. Don’t give up.

[@KatherineSparkes]

What does LPN stand for?

[@saritabarrow9435]

@gaylelauren5691 You are so right, I went from being a heroin, crack and everything in between to 6yrs clean. I now have a great life and good career. Things do get better if you really want it. Congratulations on your 9yrs of sobriety

[@saritabarrow9435]

@@KatherineSparkeslicense practitioner nurse

[@beanj580]

​@@KatherineSparkeslicensed practical nurse

[@OwenGriffin-u5i]

She is stage 4. just her arm is gona make it imposable to get a job!😢

[@Longbow-jt8jp]

These kind of videos make me so incredibly grateful for my sobriety. three years April 10th. If any of you are struggling, Talk to someone about it.

[@unheardvoices_official]

Congratulations on getting clean. That's amazing. I just hit 10 years clean myself back on April 11th. Keep going. You got this. 💪

[@d.d.sherman6502]

I don’t mean to ridicule someone battling addiction, but working for many years with people like this you come to realize that just throwing resources at them doesn’t work. They have to really want to get clean. Drug addiction is taxing on our hospitals, taxpayers, and the entire system. I pray things turn around for this woman before it’s too late.

[@beverlydiggs1964]

That looks like it needs to come off soon probably this is sad what addicts are signing up for they don't give a rats behind about anything in life not even themselves their states need to mandate them off the streets

[@tanyabruce1019]

Congratulations on sobriety what if you have no one to talk to

[@pipicho792]

Bendiciones para ti. Mantén la fe en Dios y firme en la tierra

[@beanj580]

I know people people aren't going to like this, but she isn't being truthful about the hospital. She is voluntarily leaving . It doesn't matter what they give her to treat withdrawal. It isn't her street drug. She sadly isn't ready to get medical treatment.

[@CCRyder-f3n]

I agree 💯

[@chrischevalier5406]

I agree with you as well. Not taking an of her issue seriously. They would never make you leave with your arm like that. If she doesn't want her arm cut off she can just say no which is what i think her issue is

[@moirapettifr7127]

Can that arm be saved? Will it ever return to it's original size? I've never seen anything like that.

[@indecent0079]

Oh no, they give you a run around until you’re sick and have to leave. Or if you have a ride there they release you. Or they refuse treatment if you have another specialist, go there, it’s all fine, it’s not an emergency haha. I’ve seen it countless times and experienced it myself. Our health care system is broken. But as long as you vote, the next guy will fix everything riiiiiight 🙄💸

[@rachelh4095]

The issue is, with the tranq thats around, they dont really know how to treat those wd symptoms. Methadone and subs aren't working like they would with just H or fent. It helps some with the fent part but doesnt help at all with the xylazine detox. Which is a whole other beast in itself. So people are very verrrry sick, even while being treated in the hospital. Plus the pain of the wounds on top of it. It gets to the point where its unbearable.

[@audreym3777]

Addicts aren’t able to “work on putting a plan together” for getting clean….you either go to rehab or you don’t. She was saying in her last video that she was “workin on it, plannin to call the hospital to amputate that arm” but hasn’t. That’s addiction. It’s brutal.

[@LeuraLad81]

More than ever now, with substances becoming progressively more dangerous

[@monicaheartsgypsy7877]

Yeah, especially not on the street. Sounds like she doesn’t even have a phone. There are stands that pop up all over the city giving out free government phones to people on Medicaid and food stamps so hopefully she can get one of those. They’re smart phones too. But I know when I was on the streets I couldn’t even be bothered to get food stamps. I just ate out of dumpsters. The only thing that mattered was getting high.

[@denabeebe1888]

@@LeuraLad81facts!! I’m in recovery!! The drugs 10-15 yrs ago did NOT DO THIS!! Where they bad yes. But what’s happening now is definitely BRUTAL

[@billj4525]

@@monicaheartsgypsy7877 Yeah I can't imagine being a homeless addict, especially with no real family or friends. The odds are so incredibly stacked against you. She can do it though, and I hope she does. How are you doing now? You doing okay?

[@Luke-Rick]

It's not even as simple as "you either go to rehab or you don't." I'm a substance use disorder counselor and I cannot even begin to describe how many clients have BEGGED me to get then into inpatient. There aren't any beds available, and it only get worse in the fall, winter, and spring.

[@Whiteboy305]

She’s uses every excuse in the book to keep using. I have 254 days clean from a 10 year addiction from M and H. If her situation now isn’t enough to quit, she never will. She’s got about 7-8 months left. I’m not being cruel, I’m being honest. I hope she changes but

[@moirapettifr7127]

@Whiteboy305 Congratulations I know how hard it was to do that. I was given prescription opioids for headaches and back pain - and just 10 days of those pills took me more than three months to taper off them. You cannot just stop those chemicals in your system. Withdrawal is filled with the pain of resetting all of your autonomic systems. It is a great task . I can see why people do not want to go thru all of that only to know that once they get back on the streets they will be using again. Withdrawal is like a great investment in your future but only if you are able ro make the necessary changes in your lifestyle. Most people on the streets do not have that option.

[@tammyc7898]

Congratulations, that's huge, 1 day at a time my friend, sending hugs from Indiana

[@eyeoftheleopardleopard8829]

@@Whiteboy305 congrats, friend. We do recover. 🫶🏼

[@sharlottecourdey6894]

Good for you! I agree. I know it may seem politically incorrect and controversial, but I do believe that this severity of addiction renders these people unable to make rational decisions in their own best interests, and there should be intervention. We intervene when an elderly person has dementia and can no longer function safely, so what really is the difference? I realize it's a gray area in terms of civil rights and ethics, but c'mon! Some say that they have a right to live the way they choose, the right to make poor and dangerous choices, but is this really living? True, they must make the decision to quit, but I don't think they can begin to do that while in this condition.

[@eyeoftheleopardleopard8829]

@@sharlottecourdey6894 with dementia you cannot put that disease in remission by deciding to do so like you can with addiction; you are 100% doomed. Ppl have the right to live how they choose, even if it looks miserable and fucked up from the perspective of some of us.

[@natashabeulah4815]

My dad was on drugs close to 30 years, he had to decide his life mattered period. He is clean now.

[@JaynaDenny]

It's very hard I'm proud of him

[@tomaszstarling]

@@JaynaDenny Your Father is a Strong Man because only 5% of people stop opoates and never use again. 95% don't have the will power because after using for many years their brain is rewired and the lack of the drug is unbearable for most and they can't get back to their old self because of the brain damage.

[@armouredup]

Congratulations to your dad. I pray he continues his sober path. ❤

[@blo1314]

Think about it. She can't keep arm clean now. An amputation is a serious surgery... it requires a lot of follow up and attention. For a surgeon to say oh let's just operate is not the best thing for her. Anesthesia alone is dangerous for someone with her drug use. Post op pain meds are another issue. It's not a health care fault issue.

[@truescotsman4103]

Her diet is the key. She needs meat and fruit and dairy. She needs eggs and fish. She probably eats chips and candy from the convenience store and an occasional treat from mcdonalds. That food won't heal your body it's poison. She's fighting a losing battle without quality food and clean place to rest and care for her wound. She's fucked.

[@danielleburke87]

So is sepsis

[@nucleusambiguous]

​@danielleburke87 she is septic from that arm. She refuses to get it amputated, that's her right, but it's frustrating to hear her spit lie after lie about the hospital.

[@EmSingha]

@@nucleusambiguousyeah. I imagined that if we looked at all the care she has gotten for an injury she refused to seek care for until it was an abomination it tells a different story. She’s not going to be healthy until she gets serious about dealing with her addiction.

[@missourimule921]

Your comment is THE TRUTH. There's more to her story than she is telling in this video.

[@moirapettifr7127]

Maggots actually help you they eat the dead tissue. I had this old uncle who fought way back in WWII and he used to tell how he was alive because of maggots after a gunshot wound. His buddies had to leave him for days until they could get back and his stomach wound was kept clean by maggots.

[@augustwest5487]

This is a fact

[@deborahr1302]

💯 true

[@yoongistongue4163]

Yes but it's also a sign that your tissues are dying. Plus maggots literally eat your flesh , they can eat it to the bone

[@loveshangover5062]

Yep

[@Disco_opp420]

I recall talks of that yrs ago as well x

[@bluecat2741]

Your life. Your responsibility. People can offer you a helping hand but you have to take the chance and do the hard work.

[@MzClementine]

With her having that thriving infection in her body. I bet she can barely even think beyond her next what am I doing what am I doing? I need to go to the hospital. I bet you that's all that runs in our mind. When you are sick with infection. It is so hard to think and to move and to do. Someone needs to go over there wherever she is. And be like I'm going to help you make the appointments. I'm also going to make sure you make it to the surgery.. I have stage 4 cancer and I would do it if I could but I can't.. if there is a soul out there that has a little freedom. And can spend 3 weeks with that girl. You'll change her life. Everyone keeps on saying toughen up do this do that she can't think straight. Look at her hand.

[@sharlottecourdey6894]

Yes! My drug of choice was alcohol. I tried pot a couple times in high school in the late 1970's and it just wasn't enjoyable, so never was tempted to try anything more, a fortunate quirk of fate. Alcohol seemed safer, a common part of American life. I have 40 years (!) of sobriety, and everything good in my life--and there is sooo much good--derives from my decision to stop drinking. I do believe it is much harder for those addicted to narcotics to quit. For me it was simply this: I was in college and my friends were quitting drinking, or graduating and moving on to good jobs and marriage--i.e., moving on to adulthood. I got tired of feeling like a stunted juvenile delinquent.

[@bethanyduffy5381]

Helping hand ✋️ lol

[@AnAdorableWombat1]

She doesn’t seem to really want help herself. She just wants things handed to her.

[@k_j_n1242]

💯💯💯

[@jessicagrace4622]

Unfortunately emergency rooms are not sanctuaries. They are places where you go to get stabilized from life threatening illnesses or traumas until you can get transferred to a higher level of care. We do not have the resources to care for the homeless, especially not when they leave against medical advice to go get high. We already have homeless folks coming in daily to get food/shelter/drugs/etc and it takes beds away from people who are sick and willing to get help. It’s extremely sad but it’s not how the system works. That does not make us neglectful - we do what we can with what we have in an already highly burdened healthcare system.

[@k_j_n1242]

💯💯💯 Thank you for your service and you are so right.

[@carolselfridge5925]

Do hospitals employ social workers to help file documents to put these people on welfare and social security and get them emergency housing?

[@chrischevalier5406]

I'm an addic in recovery right now. I celebrate 5 years clean on December 19,2019 is when i got clean. My life has changed so much but I'm afraid to say. This lady doesn't seem ready to stop using. If your not ready your gonna end up right back out on the streets. I don't miss any of they chaos at all. She needs help and get that arm cut off before it kills her. That definitely needs surgery. Once you're ready honey you will know it. I live my life one day at a time. I hope you get better soon honey and i am so sorry i don't have funds to help you at this time.

[@RoyalJewels-xy9il]

Congratulations!!!!! Continue to bask in the glory in knowing that you fought hard for your life❤️❤️

[@АленаГосниц]

Я горжусь Вами, храни Вас Господь!

[@Nina_Olivia]

Well done my friend 👍

[@danielleburke87]

Congratulations I've been clean since 6-14-21

[@Mr.NettaizmysusSirNettaizmysus]

@@danielleburke87Congratulations to you both, continue to take one day at a time.

[@ravensalters5769]

Can't help those who don't want help, it takes a helluva lot more energy to live how she's living than it takes to just accept help.

[@mittymitts]

OMG That is so true. 💯👏👍

[@kathys1425]

The maggots helped with the infection! She needs to go to rehab!!!

[@augustwest5487]

Exactly. Most people don't understand that the maggots actually help clean out the Infection.

[@kathybrem880]

Probably ate the dead tissue

[@stacie4635]

I never heard that maggots part

[@haybabyvic]

they won’t let you in rehab with open wounds… that’s just another reason why a lot of ppl in Kensington don’t go

[@Mr.NettaizmysusSirNettaizmysus]

@@stacie4635Yes maggots and leeches are excellent for removing bad tissues and old blood out of wounds. Hospitals use them both.

[@raymondtittle2918]

Jesus have mercy on this poor soul, amen.

[@burnsdiana1]

That should make a difference. 😂😂😂

[@michaelabaumgartner-bf9qq]

🙏 A M E N 🙏 Love , Hugs & Prayers from the bottom of my ❤ ,… Sincerely 🙋‍♀️ Michelle 🙋‍♀️ AUSTRIA 🇦🇹 , EUROPE ;

[@DailyStalkerUpdate]

God couldn't care less.

[@authumngrant3030]

amen in JESUS NAME

[@DailyStalkerUpdate]

Jesus is dead.

[@hannahmadrid3599]

These are the videos we need show our youth about drug use. This could very much become a reality for many people

[@aprilleerose]

Absolutely

[@vegassurvivor2745]

@@hannahmadrid3599 sadly our youth don't believe this will happen to them. When young, we feel we are invinsible.

[@Salt_and_ash]

This is a lot more impactful than just talking about it. It hits a lot harder than the typical “your life if you try drugs” pics they show- this shit is so real that the “oh that’ll never happen to me!” Part of your brain is even scared

[@ogadlogadl490]

Christy, ain’t no one coming to save you, JUST go to rehab and start working your way through what’s going to happen w/ your arm. Enough is ENOUGH, detox and rehab time!!!!

[@k_j_n1242]

💯💯💯

[@jenniferhalf1650]

Dude. Are you really trying to get people to donate directly to her?? Your viewers money will just go towards her drug addiction and you know it. Why on earth would you suggest that??

[@audreym3777]

Agree. Money & addicts do not mix. Plenty of other ways to help but does she even want to get clean?

[@taylorm1997]

Def agree

[@seanlowe4557]

Some people give because they have both arms and have used them to take so much from others. Giving until death begins to make restitution.

[@CarlaSong-b9m]

So much better to send items she needs. Warm clothes, a blanket, shoes, hygiene products. I can't believe she still has that arm. She'll be SO much better without it.

[@juneyshu6197]

Many who give do so because they used 2 hands to help others all their lives and still want to help!​@@seanlowe4557

[@gospelpolk757]

Sounds like she’s putting the blame on a lot of people but herself it was your decision and still is your decision to continue to use which is why you’re in the situation that you are…

[@kathybrem880]

That’s what addicts do

[@stacie4635]

But herself

[@Jessicavargas-ig1zm]

Respectfully, you don’t understand addiction, and unfortunately your lack of education on the issue only fuels misinformation and misunderstanding. Unfortunately, because of this, you are creating the idea that addiction is a choice and not a disease! As an addict who’s been sober for over 13 years now, when I listen to or read people talk about addiction as if it’s not a disease it’s heartbreaking! This woman has a very sick brain that doesn’t work like someone who is sober or someone whose brain is healthy. If you think that this woman “wants to get high” and be reckless you’re wrong! What she wants is to survive, but doesn’t have the capacity to do so alone. She’s homeless with an arm that needs to be amputated. She has no one to help her make appointments and do all the things needed in order to get proper care! No one would “choose” to live like this, no one, but she’s in a day by day survival mode just to stay alive! Let me put it this way, she’s just as ill as a cancer patient going through chemotherapy. Just like we wouldn’t expect a cancer patient to “help themselves” when they’re as sick as they are, we shouldn’t expect that out of a very sick young woman! I take my sobriety very seriously, and there were many people who helped me along the way. As a result I’ve been sober for over 13 years because of the compassion and understanding of addiction that thankfully I was surrounded by! You’re entitled to your own opinions but not your own facts! Please educate yourself before commenting about something you clearly don’t understand .

[@friendorfoe5761]

​@Jessicavargas-ig1zm she chose the drugs. Now she has consequences

[@danielleburke87]

​@Jessicavargas-ig1zm former addict first step is admitting she has a drug problem. I'll I hear is excuse after excuse. They probably thought she had drug seeking behavior

[@Modestdee7665]

She says what the hospital/doctors could’ve done for her but I want to know “what could she do to help her hand/health?”. I can’t imagine thinking it’s someone else responsibility to take care of me. Stop doing drugs! Seek treatment! Go to AA or/and NA meetings in person or online. ❤

[@k_j_n1242]

💯💯💯

[@k_j_n1242]

The level of entitlement in the Western world is staggering. Actually, the world owes us nothing. Yes, folks need each other for support and help, but too often that crosses over into do everything for me breathe for me. No, we are animals and sometimes it genuinely is survival of the fittest in some circumstances. Do something for yourself and then maybe others can do something for you. Peace ✌🏼

[@tomaszstarling]

I'm a paramedic and this is heartbreaking to see.

[@sharonfike5379]

It is heartbreaking to me also, but some of the most heartless and hateful comment I have ever seen in this thread . I hope these heartless people never have a parent, child or sibling in this condition.

[@susanbeane2795]

I’m not a paramedic and it’s extremely heartbreaking to see her in so much pain mentally and physically,she seems like such a good person,it’s the drugs that changed her life

[@tomaszstarling]

@@susanbeane2795 ❤

[@tomaszstarling]

@@sharonfike5379 All I will say to those people is that karma is a bitch, I wouldn't wish this on anyone, it's a slow suicide, after 20 years of that drug injection abuse the human body will have so many illnesses that it scares me when I see it at work, we pick up a long time users and the state they are in is heartbreaking.

[@breesgirl2087]

I’m an RN and this is pathetic

[@pickledbread2036]

She kind of just wants people to take care of her. I struggled with drug addiction for many years until i reached out and got help. She can do it too, but only if she really wants to. I hope she realizes that she needs to put in the work along with asking for the right help.

[@Kat-tr2ig]

She can't even bother to change a bandage, of course the hospital isn't going to amputate. The post-operatory care for an amputation is intense, and she isn't willing to do the bare minimum. She isn't even thankful for what the hospital did for her, nor what the interviewer does for her (He asks for her sizes so he can help and the only thing she says is "ok". No "thank you," no "I appreciate it," nothing). She has an excuse for every solution; you can't help someone who is unwilling to change.

[@dannipuckeridge6847]

She's a drug addict she doesn't give a s.h.i.t about no one but herself

[@LisaLopez-yh8qu]

Kat you are a very uncompassionate b*tch have you ever been homeless addicted been raped multiple times and have a life threatening infection all going on at the same time. God have mercy on you because if you don't repent your gonna pay for being so evil towards this poor women!!! I'm retired from the military and have been thru some terrible things but nothing as bad as this but I have never heard anyone be so cruel and evil you need your a*s kicked witch!!!!

[@mariadickson6035]

Absolutely 💯. If your that sick, you'd not complain about the time you wait in hospital. Sadly I think this girl likes playing the victim. I was always taught, always be thankful for anything you are given.

[@nucleusambiguous]

That's because all she really wants is money for drugs ], but she can't exactly say that.

[@a.h.9679]

She's not well....duh!

[@JenL519]

Thank u for caring about her.

[@wendypatton1932]

As an RN I know a lot of her story is not true. I understand that people leave the hospital AMA and tell these stories. I’ve heard it all. My heart breaks for her and I hope she gets help. I know hospital staff can be rude and uncaring at times, I’ve witnessed it and I don’t stand for it. I will always be a patient advocate, for everyone. I don’t know what the answer is for this girl. I know what should be done, but without her compliance to follow through, it looks grim. I appreciate this man that is helping. ❤

[@unheardvoices_official]

🙏

[@JeVovora]

Hey first video she had a little humility about her role in her circumstance. This is wild she has nothing but criticism for the healthcare she receives that she didn’t have to pay for and framing it like they left her for two days when she left to get high and come back again. Those are two separate visits. People are much more open to helping and understanding when there’s some acknowledgment of accountability and appreciation.

[@richardking2489]

Good point. This is all true. However, when you are in the chains of addiction you don't see how selfish you are. I try and give people the benefit of doubt, it's hard but I also know first hand how hard life is when you're stuck in that cycle. She's in a hole that she needs to climb herself out of. All the help in the world won't mean a thing unless she wants it for her soul.

[@stella6051]

Are you actually joking, no 1st World country should leave their citizens in this state. I'm sorry but this is absolutely disgusting, hospitals in the Uk wouldn't dream of letting this girl leave without properly treating her arm and if it can be saved it would be otherwise it would have been amputated by now. No questions asked about money to pay for it because tax payers have a duty in my opinion to not allow people to suffer like this. I'm completely blown away by her condition

[@JeVovora]

@@stella6051 she left to get high…

[@MetsterAnn]

@@stella6051Hospitals are not prisons here in the US. A person can leave at any time. They would have helped her stabilize, infection control, amputate, aftercare and rehab if she’d stayed. She left to get high. They would give her meds to ease withdrawal but that’s not what she wanted. Here we believe that everybody can make their own choice, no matter how bad the choice is. It’s very sad that she won’t just make the leap and trust others, because she is very unlikely to make 31. But it’s her life to live.

[@moirapettifr7127]

She can get help it's a question of her having free will to leave when she needs to get high. And admittedly the wounds coming in with tranc are horrific and have caught some doctors by surprise. It's a learning curve right now.

[@williamvasquezvasquez9878]

Praying that she gets the care that she desperately needs✝️🙏🏻

[@kellyd6033]

I know that she has done this to herself, however, she is still someone’s child, sister, cousin, friend, granddaughter, maybe mother!! I hope she finds the help that she needs!! Praying for her!! ❤

[@CarlaSong-b9m]

I wish she had a companion to stay with her. It's so scary to be in the hospital and go through withdrawls and a big, life changing surgery without anyone to support you. 😢 I hope she can at least get set up with a case worker to advocate for her in the hospital and set her up with rehab after.

[@Nikki38]

Makes me so sad for her

[@billj4525]

It's tough. She's homeless with no real help and horrific infections. The drugs are worse than ever for sure. Odds are really stacked against her. She can do it, but she really has to want it.

[@Nikki38]

@@billj4525 💯

[@elizabethg-rj5tg]

For all of the people saying don’t give her nothing because it will go towards drugs, clearly letting her hit rock bottom hasn’t worked. This lady needs love and support.

[@LinksQuest]

Giving a severe addict straight money is not love and support, it’s complicit enabling and is the opposite of helping. Her very first priority is drugs, not shelter, food or water and also it’s so much easier for homeless people to get free food, water and shelter than it is for them to get free drugs so the money will go to drugs 10 out of 10 times. Give her clothing, food, bandages or whatever, anything but money unless you want to help speed run her death.

[@BaltimoreBlonde]

I lived on those streets, it's rough. I hope she gets better! ❤

[@ReyOfLight]

I fully believe that Christy can get clean. What she really needs is stability and support so she won't just end up back on the streets and resorting to substances to self medicate to numb both physical and emotional pain. Amputation is a big deal, and she will need to have somewhere to call home (as in indoors, and available to her full time) so she can recover in a warm place with access to proper nutrition, running water and other necessities, and have people around her that care about her and can help her with wound care and other things. It really feels like a lot of her hesitation comes down to simply not having the stability she needs and not knowing where to go basically.

[@aliciafocarelli]

She bleeds just like the rest of us ! Praying for your beautiful soul lady! You can do this!

[@mittymitts]

Amen!! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏💞💞💞💞👏👏👏👍👍👍

[@kimbelt1369]

Amen

[@allisonpayne2097]

Yes praying helps😎

[@DailyStalkerUpdate]

@@allisonpayne2097 No, it doesn't.

[@DailyStalkerUpdate]

God couldn't care less.

[@jerac65]

You make your choices and then get mad because others don't give and do for you. Smh

[@imagoodshotDesi9mm]

Dang 😂😂😂 she got caseoh hand

[@turningwrenches89]

“It’s harder to stay out here and use opposed to get clean and stay clean” Powerful bro. Thanks for opening the trench doors to see the life in the not so popular places. Speaking for myself. I’ve traveled thru that same parking lot they are standing in, chasing a blast. I’ve never ever gotten clean on the streets. Them handcuffs are what got me under control. And I never say I got arrested, I say I got rescued. Best thing that ever happened to me was to catch that prison bid. I ended every day in that joint. We all live the lives we choose to live every day. There’s so much help out there these days. Way more than when I was out there. But it’s a huge step that an addict can’t really see from that block to the detox/rehab. Let’s face it. The life of an addict is animalistic. I don’t have no divine answer as to how I been off the streets for over 20 years off that shit. It all boils down to will. I will say that If you get it in your head that there is better, that’s a seed that can bear fruit. But if I had one piece of advice out of it all, I would say the most important 4 letter word. PRAY. I did pray. And I knew God had better for me. Didn’t know how to get there, but when you submit your prayer and supplication to God of your understanding, your casting your cares into the supernatural, and that God honors your faith in Him, and will prove Himself to you. He will use a sequence of events that you have no idea he devised until you get to a certain point and realize He used that prison sentence for His good Purposes and our own good will. I’m gonna shut up now. I’m just saying. Try and find out for yourself. Kindest regards, 🫡

[@unheardvoices_official]

Well said, bro. And I feel you on the prison thing. Congratulations on getting clean and getting out of that life. The life of an addict is definitely animalistic. I believe in God as well. He definitely got me through some of my darkest times. 🙏

[@00loudog]

Me too I was strung out for the past 6 years pretty much caught a case in April and have been sober for 98 days I am so grateful for this case honestly I didn't know how to stop I go to court next Thursday god did for me what couldn't do for myself I've never been so happy to be arrested before much love from nashville

[@bernadettemccoy1432]

AMEN!!!!!!! I LOVE Your TESTIMONY! THANK YOU For LETTING People KNOW THAT GOD IS REAL💯❗AND HE DOES ANSWER PRAYERS!!!💯💯💯🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽♥️😍

[@Ms_Nightshade]

Your words are all so valuable, wise, and beautiful! Thank you for sharing, and i hope you have the happy life you deserve.

[@Bunnyfoo2199]

@@turningwrenches89 congratulations on your sobriety, no matter what the catalyst was to get there! Addiction is hard but getting and STAYING sober is hard too, there’s no good answer. Bottom line is the addict has to choose their path but being surrounded by the drugs def won’t force you into sobriety. An addict becomes programmed to choose the drugs over all else at some point. No one wakes up one day and says I want to be an addict now, but once down that path it steals your will and everything good in your life one day at a time. I’ve been clean off opiates for over a decade…2 years off suboxone and I still miss things about being high to this day! But thankfully, I have lots of good in my life to know I could never go back. Wishing you continued health and happiness 😌

[@MetsterAnn]

She has to get that arm amputated, there is no saving it. If she doesn’t, she’ll get sepsis and die; she’s right to be afraid. I don’t think she’s a reliable narrator about what’s going on with her medical care, but she probably needs to get the infection controlled and become stable before they can amputate. I suspect she leaves to go get high rather than the hospital discharging her. If she’s on tranq I don’t think there is a good withdrawal protocol for that. I’m sure they would give suboxone but you have to wait 24 hours and start withdrawal before you get it or it can precipitate a terrible Wd. High doses of bup might help, but she has to stay. Sad case, I hope she makes better choices in life.

[@karenharrington9614]

Maybe a medical induced coma?

[@allisonmcgowen1277]

​@@karenharrington9614it worked for my late husband

[@paulmartinez3502]

Suboxone doesn't work for fentanyl or tranq

[@_lala_blah_blah]

I know it’s gross but the maggots were actually cleaning it out. Eating the infection. Hope she gets some help. You can do this I was in your same position and got my life together. Over a year clean with no slip ups. So true it’s more work to stay living that way. Maryland house is a great detox not far from where you are. I went there I highly recommend. If they are still there I’m not sure. Look into it please!!!

[@ShelleyMagner]

Good on you! Please don't go back out there. No matter what.

[@RoyalJewels-xy9il]

Congratulations to you!!! She needs this type of encouragement from people who can relate🙏🏽🙏🏽❤️

[@_lala_blah_blah]

@@ShelleyMagner thank you! I moved 12 hours away no turning back 🙂

[@_lala_blah_blah]

@@RoyalJewels-xy9il thank you! I hope she sees this and knows she can get through this. Still so young with her whole life ahead.

[@starbright1256]

❤

[@Wolf_Ghost]

Dead serious btw - I WANT TO HELP YOU. You need to leave that area, get into a MAT program, have wound care with compassion, and know that this is not the end-all, be-all to your life; You can still make dreams and goals, live a wonderfully happy life without drugs. You have an amazing world around you beyond that substance. I would love to show you that.

[@ng3347]

THEY THEY THEY....What about YOU YOU YOU....take accountability.

[@Allergictocatstoo]

This is addiction, just hear it as her needing help.

[@irenegonzalez8779]

Uh-huh , she did it to herself . And taxpayers have to pay for her bad choices .

[@ng3347]

@@Allergictocatstoo Part of addiction is also taking responsibility for your own decisions.

[@emilyprice9198]

@@irenegonzalez8779if you don’t want to be apart of the solution just keep yourhateful comments to yourself. If they could get sober and help themselves I promise these people would. If you think this is the life she wants you’re ignorant

[@ng3347]

@@emilyprice9198 How are you contributing to the solution? You gonna pay for her medical expenses? You gonna house her?? We'll wait....

[@truckingwithtobee]

This poor young lady. Nobody deserves to be living like this or to be treated like this.❤ I pray that she gets the help that she needs. And if she reads this, it is possible to get clean you can do this.

[@SemekoR-qh6js]

I know of a really great program if she want the information

[@Pocket-full-of-sunshine420]

I have two siblings lost the last decade plus.. somewhere on the streets of AZ ... Thank you for treating her with dignity and respect. I pray someone tries to bring my siblings back to life. I did everything i could for years..I still have hope..they choose Life.❤

[@ritajordan6598]

In Jesus name Amen ❤

[@wesmalone3094]

She walks out of the ER for more dope. She filling u full of crap by saying she's afraid she may not wake up.She ain't all there

[@MonicaM-vj1yr]

They won’t do the surgery because she’s technically a liability plus it’s not considered an emergency

[@katherinebohrer6828]

Thank you for doing these videos. Obviously we need to be educated if we're going to help ourselves. Humanity is in rough shape. I imagine the place to begin is reverence and compassion for all beings

[@unheardvoices_official]

Well said. Thanks so much for supporting the channel. It's truly appreciated. 🙏

[@ravynwoods5902]

You can’t help people like this. When you were giving her solid and relatable advice around 12:15 she cut you off and started talking about herself again.

[@Apostol3009]

I watch videos on this channel, and it breaks my heart. It’s painful to see this, and it brings tears to my eyes. Yes, I understand that most people often end up in such situations through their own actions, but seeing the condition they're in now - it calls for compassion. Everyone has a chance to change. I hope these people overcome their addiction.

[@KristinaTheLatinaMoody]

Awwwe this is breaking my heart. I've been thinking about her ever since your last interview with her. Please continue to update us. Please tell her she is loved and appreciated 💜😢😢😢

[@Maybemana]

I'm sober about 9 years. I was addicted to IV heroin and I got out RIGHT before fentynal started taking over the streets. This could have very easily have been me-- I'm actually one year older than her. I was homeless and hopeless. I felt like I was just digging a hole to die in. I promise things can change. I promise YOU can change. Don't give up.

[@mandyalexander7115]

This is just so so sad and terrible. She says there is larvae in there now? It's just going to hatch? I cannot believe it. I will do whatever I can to help her and you, Russell

[@karenfraser5455]

This poor woman prayers and love to you active addiction is complete suffering.. I really hope you get all the help and recovery. A massive hug Karen London uk

[@jenniferrogers2624]

ANYONE SCREAMING "A HOSPITAL CANT TURN YOU AWAY" CANT BE MORE WRONG.

[@JessicaJones-y4e]

Yes they can ! At least where I live

[@jessicagrace4622]

Also - finding food/water/shelter/clothes/etc is impossible but finding fentanyl isn’t. These folks unfortunately make excuses for being helpless when in fact they are unwilling to accept help to get clean and get off the streets a lot of the time.

[@LinksQuest]

It’s not that hard really for the homeless to find all of those things even for free, except drugs.. never drugs for free.

[@sophiaduarte745]

Prayers for Christy.❤🙏 I Pray She gets clean and Sober. The best for Her.

[@deanawells4395]

Harbor Hospital has many resources. When you arrive to any ER and you are not taken care of demand to see a patient advocate and a social worker. It is your right to do so.

[@earthom1]

yeah, she isn't ready to get sober yet and when she is, it sounds like people are willing to help her. its up to her she can't blame others for the circumstance she is in. many people who have had this addiction have fought to be sober.

[@aliciaobrien8713]

AS AN ER NURSE NO HOSPITAL LEFT YOU IN ANY WAITING ROOM FOR 2 DAYS IVE WORKED AT MAJOR TRAUMA CENTERS WHERE WE HAD 12+ HOUR WAITS AND SHE WOULD BE A USE THE LAST BED CASE WITH MAGGOTS!!!! STOP 🛑

[@aiai4u109]

they never let you eat or drink because they never know if they will be doing surgery

[@Ventingthetruth777]

Wow she's only 30 💔 I thought she was at least 60 💔🙏🏽 I'm a recovering addict. My drugs of choice was meth, food, and alcohol. Clean now for 11 years.

[@stephwilberforce869]

Your interview technic is excellent. Thank you for sharing

[@Dylan-yv6ko]

What’s a technic

[@paigetaranto]

She was trying to say she’s at University of Maryland Medical Center. I’ve been here for 26 days now being treated for cancer. They wouldn’t “kick her out” but all they really can do is give her meds and discharge her. She’d have to go to a Medicaid facility/ Community Health Center for amputation.

[@leoniecasbolt824]

She really thinks we would give money??....

[@mollywalsh2860]

I’m in California and we have access to free clinics. They do ask for donation but with someone in this condition, I cannot image that she would get turned away! She desperately needs help. I hope she gets it. Recovery is such a long and tough road. Don’t give up, you’re worth it.

[@Noneofyourbusiness57817]

Damn she didn’t even thank the interviewer for trying to help her

[@byou148]

Prehaps it was off camera when she did ...

[@jackiewilliams7876]

Great, Interview My Friend God Bless All in The Struggle of Addiction💕🙏💕

[@unheardvoices_official]

@@jackiewilliams7876 Thanks so much, Jackie. 🙏

[@marynieves7111]

Hi Jackie 🙏💜

[@hayesvally]

I work with the homeless population where I live and I've seen so many people lose their limbs over frostbite, cellulitis, MRSA, trench foot, etc. it's overwhelming

[@fianacaitriona2832]

This is a human being. We all need more compassion

[@truescotsman4103]

I have empathy for anyone suffering like this. I always remember it's how you treat people. As long as she's a good person and treats others with respect she deserves respect. She needs help learning to love and respect and care for herself. I was a homeless drug addict as a teenager but I survived I'm 59. You can't help these people you can try to influence them to learn to love themselves. I did it so I know it's possible. I did it alone against all odds so even if you have some support you're better off than I ever was. This is a symptom of a sick society. Her condition isn't her fault it's the culture of our society that got her into trouble like so many other average normal people. This doesn't happen in a healthy society.

[@memyselfi2005]

You're so right, things like this don't happen in a healthy society. Only a very sick society breeds issues such as these.

[@truescotsman4103]

@@memyselfi2005 Look how many millions are suffering. It's insane. I know it's by design. Hopefully one day our society and our people can heal and recover. We need a better way to live.

[@memyselfi2005]

@truescotsman4103 probably billions needlessly suffering. Every day I look around me and feel more and more that we live in a corporation masquerading as a country and I hate it. Real change and a different way of living needs to happen, but I'm afraid it won't be any time soon and all people will be able to do is try and save themselves. All of this is by design of course. If John Kennedy and Martin Luther King had not been assisnated, our world would be so different, and yet that's why they were not allowed to continue.

[@fatrinafields54]

Sad to say it's time for that arm to go!!! Before she becomes septic!!! Please get that taken care of immediately 🙏🏾🙏🏾😇😇😇 Praying for you!!!!

[@deborahwong-kam8139]

This is unbelievable I cannot believe drugs are doing this I have been addicted since 16years old, 65 now a d well over it so sorry for this poor person 😢

[@Sticx-tv8kx]

I was discharged in withdrawls and I went back in and told them i was suicidal. I was homeless on fentynal at the time. The social worker came in and asked me what was going on, and i said i needed detox. He made some phone calls and had me on an ambulance a county north within a few hours. Her situation is worse, but there are cards to pull to get off the street, and mental health is definitely an option. But she has to want it. Ive been clean for over a year now. I still went back out and relapsed after that chance was not ready. Im blessed to have gotten my life together and I had to want it more than anything else.

[@Ms_Nightshade]

BIG congratulations on getting to where you are! It sounds like you’ve been through a lot, but you’re doing great. Keep it up! 👍

[@Sticx-tv8kx]

Ty​@@Ms_Nightshade

[@Ms_Nightshade]

@@Sticx-tv8kx Hugs!

[@LinksQuest]

I hit rock bottom and was withdrawaling and admitted myself in the psych ward. The first psych ward was pretty terrible really and even though I told them I was coming off of twenty five years of extreme opiate, benzodiazepine and barbiturate use and told them the last time it happened I had several seizures and almost died they wouldn’t even give me a sleep aid and I hadn’t slept in seven days. I was ill in a way only severe addicts will know about I started hallucinating terribly and the next thing I knew I had awoken in the ER that was downstairs only because the ER doctor had administered a small amount of benzodiazepines into my IV and I was told I had numerous grand mal seizures and lost consciousness for 18 hours. They sent me to a different psych ward that put me on a safe taper program and they also set up high intensity inpatient treatment for me and transported me there a couple weeks later. Did eight full in inpatient and while there I was able to find my own apartment with a supportive housing organization. Four years clean now. I’m still surprised at how many people cannot follow the rules here to keep their own free apartment in a building that literally provides a 24 hour on site staff, free necessary transportation, social working services and case management, mental health services, medication management if needed, and three warm meals a day to anyone who needs it. You don’t even have to be clean to live here, you just aren’t supposed to have drugs in your apartment and it cannot become a behavioral issue. Actually finding housing isn’t the biggest problem with most of the homeless, it’s following the rules of the housing that is the biggest problem.

[@Sticx-tv8kx]

@LinksQuest good job on getting what you needed. I notice alot of people do really well in programs with accountability ua etc and as soon as they transition out they go right back to the drugs. I have done it myself. Most people will not have a successful transition their first try... and alot won't survive it. The stakes are really high with recovery especially from opiates and opioids. Im blessed to be clean today and I pray I have the strength to just stay greatful and clean to have a good life. That's all I want.

[@Segway99]

Nothing changes if nothing changes….. what she’s been through is horrible, but self inflicted, so it’s hard to have sympathy. FYI - I’m 25 years sober

[@unheardvoices_official]

Congratulations on getting clean. That's amazing. I have 10 years clean myself.

[@BLUEGREEN65]

Get into rehab, get clean, get a job!!! Don’t start drugs to begin with then you won’t get addicted!!!

[@KristinaTheLatinaMoody]

You sound ignorant AF. JFC

[@ByeByeBelly]

So never use pain killers or alcohol

[@ruthmartyn8465]

It's up to HERSELF to care for herself. Drugs obviously come first

[@LinksQuest]

I almost lost my arm in 2011. Horribly infected from IV use and also got sepsis from it. Doctor told me I had about a 30% chance of keeping the arm with worse odds of keeping it from the elbow up. Surgery and antibiotics went extremely well and I have my arm and full use of it. Didn’t get sober til eight years later

[@jz64]

What are they waiting for the hospital to amputate her arm ? I dont think she stayed long enough to get the amputation shes fibbing ..

[@Daniellelp921]

God please bless this poor girl. Please let her find her path to recovery. Please. She deserves a good life too. Please give her hope and strength.

[@jplove9810]

i knew she wouldn’t get that arm amputated

[@CCRyder-f3n]

I'm sorry but I just can't feel sorry for someone that doesn't want to help themselves. You can get free rehab free medical free housing free food but she would rather be on the streets doing drugs and prostituting to get them than worry about her health. So NO I don't feel sorry for her!!!

[@Beccamae75]

​@captainbreadbread3080she has crib lizards. She can get everything handed to her.

[@Cheri12345]

God comfort this beautiful soul..she is your child 🦋

[@user-ss9vv6fh2p]

Rooting for you girl! I hope you find health and safety

[@scottcosta0719]

The stuff isn't fentynal anymore its xylathine a anima!.tranq. Its literary eats ur skins. TBE withdrawal is off the wall bad.

[@katieboyd3213]

I feel great empathy for her, but from a doctors perspective, they might think giving priority to others is more important than an addict that may OD at any moment. It’s a sad situation

[@galegrazutis964]

She should be grateful she got treatment at all! She bought this ENTIRELY on herself

[@buffylemaster-foster5905]

Oh honey I really hope you get the help you need. I am a recovering addict and I have 17 yrs clean and had to fight for my daughter because I was using the whole time I was pregnant. Lost her to cps. Got her back after 17 months, and that was the hardest thing I ever had to do. There were so many hoops to jump through, but I did it. I do hope accept from people because you still have lots of years ahead and children to enjoy. Wish you the best.

[@jenniferhalf1650]

It's like something you see out of a horror movie. Absolutely crazy. She can kiss that arm goodbye. She can even kiss her life goodbye at this point. She obviously doesn't want to change so my empathy is wearing thin for her..

[@Robindalmiras]

Well, empathy doesn’t have an on and off switch. I get what you are saying but these individuals needs consistent support, something that lacking for many addicts.

[@k_j_n1242]

Sure, you may be able to empathise consistently, but sympathy and energy can wear thin. And that is our right as humans beings to feel however we want about anything we want to. I agree with the OP that there has to come a point where it's not everyone else's fault and you take some accountability for your own life choices. Otherwise, people start to get sick of your ish​@@Robindalmiras

[@themanhattanproject2471]

It's so sad to see that she would be willing to go back to drugs to "get well" rather than turning away from that horrible drug. When is enough enough? I hope and pray she gets better and sober.

[@marynieves7111]

Christy, I commented on your last video. I’m so sorry for your situation. My heart goes out to you. The people at the hospital need to be better to these addicts. And unfortunately the tranq is awful. They don’t know that much with how to care for them. I’ve seen some horrible tranq wounds. The dealers are putting everything & anything in their bags. They’re addicted to poison ☠️. It’s heartbreaking 💔 I’m on your side Christy. And care for you. Thank you for the update. I appreciate what you’re doing out there. 🙏💜❤️

[@denabeebe1888]

Amen

[@LinksQuest]

She spun some yarn with her narrative of how things went at the hospital though

[@ХалиматЯмадаева28]

It’s sad but at some point you have to take the responsibility of saving your own life. She gave up everything to follow this path , now she needs to give up what she’s been doing and do everything she can to save her life. There’s got to be some ressources available to help her make the appointments but she can’t do it if she chooses to use instead.

[@SimplyASweet]

Its the withdrawals that keep folks from stopping

[@CaribbeanQueen72xx]

This is sad, maggots 🤔? how does her hand get so huge and turn this way . That’s self abuse at its worse, I pray she become a positive testimony .

[@vickifields4365]

Sadly, the hospital knows she’s a lost cause and they don’t want to waste their time and money on trying to save her arm.

[@user-yc9vx3nz5z]

No person is a lost cause. How awful to even think that let alone say it out loud or type it into a public comment.

[@alisasewell]

I’m so sorry, that is the worst. Praying for your recovery

[@michelleleinonen-valdez1589]

They don't keep you cuz the sad part is they know your gonna use as soon as you ate realsed😢.

[@sonnettetaylor572]

God bless you, sir. For trying to help her.

[@KasandraBrace]

She turns my stomach talking about her wounds 😞 omg

[@marjilaplante9579]

Poor dear soul... I hope you heal from your addiction. You deserve better🙏

[@jmmm1381]

Self inflicted wound... Do you feel concerned for her? Or she made her bed now she gets to sleep in it?

[@MzKickz]

😂 you really have no idea of the reality of peoples lives. Your lack of empathy is a mental illness, seek help mr perfect.

[@dianagallagher3891]

I am homeless living in my car. I have lost almost all my teeth and have a huge growth inside my right side of my stomach and it can be felt from almost my belly bottom to around my hip to my back. I need help and had give up on life. People have put me down ans have treated me badly so why should i go on ? I am 45. The girl in this story has touched my heart i am a mom too and the state took them from me due to losing my home to a fire they were in school and i was at work the fire started from a bad stove and if i was hope i could of saved my home we lived in a big hitel suite with a kitchen and bedroom. Me and my daughter had the bedroom and one of my sons had the pull out couch and the other had a air mattress or cot and dcyf came and made me calll shelters and they were all full and they took my kids they didn't want them living in the hotel and i missed a doctor's apt for one of my sons but rescheduled it and i was lied to and they had the police at the hotel to help take my kids from me. I was a good mom my poor son was slamming his head against the wall saying don't take me away from my mommy and my twins ran to the parken lot to hid in the swamp behind the hotel. I went to court and fought for my children and they put my son in a grouo home where he got sexually molested and they split up my teins to different foster homes. I tryed ending my life. Living without my children is horrible. I lost my mom when i was 32 years old and my dad passed away a few weeks after my house fire. Then in court dcyf lied and then they put all 3 of my kids in the same foster home but this foster home brainwashed my children to the point they stopped going to visits and this hurt then the courts found that dcyf was in the wrong and my kids shouldn't of been taken from me and ordered reunification but the last 2 years dcyf didn't reunification and now my kids are older i may never see them again the foster home wants them. So why should i live. I cry everyday and when i do sleep i have nightmares that my kids never see me again and whwn i do see them they don't know me. I hate my life. Dcyf put me where i am today. I had a good life. I had a nice home and 2 cars and 3 children who never missed a day of school and i worked pt time and it all stopped. 😢 i hope this girl in the story gets help. I wish i was in better health i would go be by her side to help her get her hand cut off. She so much younger than me. I wish i could give her some friendship and i don't have any friends.

[@saritabarrow9435]

She was talking about maggots coming out of her wound and at the same time a fly came and landed on it 🤦🏾‍♀️

[@mafrost1175]

😮

[@totokingkong1]

I know