On August 14 2024 at 14:30, I found my sister dead in her motorhome.
This was one of the worst days of my life, over the past 5 years I have buried my mom, dad, older brother, Nana, Aunty and now my sister. For the past 5 years my sister has been battling a trauma induced addiction because of the loss of our parents 6 months apart from each other. She was left to deal with both of their estates, I was in school and both out brothers were fishing ( they were both commercial fisherman ) On September 21 2022 I found my brother on our moms kitchen floor. I had called him to come help with our sister who had been placed on a hold in the hospital. I begged him to come off the boat he did on September 20th, then the next morning as I was getting ready for my bday I got a call that the ambulance was at our moms. I raced over and found my sister holding onto our brother screaming for him to wake up. That event made her spiral even further into the cruel and unfair world of addiction.
On July 11 our Nana passed away and on July 16th our aunty passed away unexpectedly. My sister went MIA. On July 19th her motorhome with her cats was towed to a property and no one new that her cats were inside. For 8 days I stayed and took care of the cats and then my sister finally showed up. For three weeks she didn’t leave my side. I fed her daily morning afternoon and night. I made sure she had what she needed (minus the narcotics). on August 1st I found out she had not been on her thyroid medication for over a month (she had radiation over 20 years ago and it killed her thyroid completely ) She needed this medication to make sure her body functioned properly. She was also on withdrawal medication to try and help her get off the opioids. She started to go into detox on the 11 and I had a doctors appointment set up for her on the 15th this was to get all her medication refilled and to get her back on a program to help with detoxing. On August 14th I showed up to pick her up and when I opened her door because she did not answer I found her laying on her bed eyes open jaw clinched, blankets pulled up to chin and she was gone. The last 5 years have taken a toll on the remainder of our family financially emotionally and mentally, I am reaching out to ask for help and I thank anyone and everyone who donates to help my family lay her to rest, Her service is September 20 2024 at 1130 am in parksville BC.