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addictionstories · 3 years ago

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Naomi would vanish and be out of communication for two or three days at a time, which would terrify me. She hadn’t called or responded to any of my texts all weekend. I was convinced something terrible had happened. Her mom called me, asking me if I had heard anything. “Nothing” I told her.

“She has ID with her, right?” her mom asked.

“Yes.”

“Hopefully we’ll hear something soon.”

Naomi resurfaced and called me the next day, which was a relief. But living in a constant state of anxiety had become grueling for me. And it was affecting my work. Regardless of what I was doing, a portion of my mind was always in a wild, excited state, worrying about her, imagining catastrophic scenarios. This was the norm now; my default setting.

A few days later, I played an afternoon jazz concert at Binghamton University. In the morning before I left, I checked in with Naomi. She was okay. Bur during the rehearsal, I had my phone on the bottom end of the piano keys, watching for texts, worried.

The following Sunday, I worked a brunch at a new casino off the Thruway, west of Syracuse. We played in the main restaurant, an upscale steakhouse, marble floors, high ceilings, with a buffet that seemed a half mile long. After, we ate shrimp and lobster and bread sticks. My thoughts immediately turned to Naomi and how I wanted to take her here. Then reality came crashing in. What was the likelihood of us coming out here? She’d have to have the right combination of drugs at the exactly right time, or it would never work. We were always at the mercy of bizarre circumstances and the whims of drug dealers. We could never plan or do anything until she got sober.

At this point Naomi was bouncing around between hobo (trap) houses on Syracuse’s northside. Addiction is a progressive disease and I could see her sliding further down the rabbit hole. She and Alex were back at Dom’s place on the northside, a squalid hovel. A river or trash and bottles flowed out the door onto the dilapidated porch, spilling onto the lawn. Inside, the smell of mold and cat urine attacked your nostrils. I’d stop over, park in front and drop off fresh needles. But how long could this go on? She’d be starting probation soon.

I’d been filling in for a piano player from Utica, teaching lessons at Colgate University and was scheduled to play a concert with the school’s jazz band. I arrived at the theater in downtown Hamilton, parked in front with my hazard lights on, and hurried in to unload my equipment. When I came out a burly cop was eyeing my car, about to write a ticket. When I explained the situation he let me off with a warning. I parked in a space across the street and went back inside to set up my keyboard. A few moments later, the cop walked through the theater, up to the stage and motioned to me to come down. Did he see something in the car, a needle, a spoon? I thought. God, this could be bad. The guitar player, Joe, and some of the other musicians looked over at me, curious, concerned.

I followed the cop outside.

“We’ve got a problem with your car,” he said.

His words seemed to knock the wind out of me. Thoughts or being arrested flooded my mind. For a moment I couldn’t breathe.

“I can see that this inspection sticker has removed from your vehicle and put back on.”

I paused for a second. “Yes, I had the windshield replaced recently,” I explained, my voice tremulous and small.

He smiled. “Okay, Okay, that’s the right answer. I just wanted to make sure,” the cop said as he started walking back toward his cruiser.

My whole body sagged in relief. Okay, that’s it. That’s all it was, I thought.

The theater manager had come out and was standing on the sidewalk. He’d watched the exchange between the cop and me. We walked back in as I explained what happened.

Over the next several days, Naomi’s situation continued to deteriorate. She moved into a bed-bud infested drug house on Ash Street, on the ragged-edge of Syracuse’s northside. All the joy and emotion had been sucked out of her. She was lifeless, forlorn, a ghost woman. Her mother was aware of what was going on. Naomi had another arrest warrant in Central Square. A village cop had come to her parent’s house twice, looking for her.

“Look, you’re the only person who can help her, “ her mom explained. “You know where she is. Call the cops and tell them people in the house are using drugs. You’d be saving her life.”

This put me in a incredibly difficult position. Even though I basically agreed with her mom, I looked at calling the cops as a betrayal of Naomi’s trust. And what if if didn’t work. Naomi would never confide in me again. I’d be locked out. She wouldn’t tell me her whereabouts, and I wouldn’t be able to help her at all.

This was exceedingly complicated. Her mom gave me the number of the cop who’d been looking for her. He and Naomi had gone to high school together.

I agreed to call and talk to him, but I knew in my heart that I could never follow through with this plan. I left the officer a message, but never heard back, which was a tremendous relief.

At this point, after hanging with Naomi for a year, seeing her use drugs, meeting her friends, other drug users, I was beginning the understand the futility of thinking you can force someone to quit, by imposing consequences, legal or otherwise. I’d wished that worked. But my experience told me that it did not. It was an agonizing thing to realize you’re powerless to help someone you love. But unfortunately, it was reality, as much as I hated to admit it.

It was madness for the next two weeks, as I brought Naomi needles and ferried her on drug missions. I stayed laser-focused on the end of the month, when Naomi met with her probation officer. That would end the madness, I was convinced.

At this point Naomi was barely going out. I remember pulling up to the northside house on a sunny afternoon, waiting for her, as I looked down to Lodi Street - watching kids riding bikes, people going in and out of the corner bakery. Naomi had become completely shackled by her addiction. She was a prisoner now more than she ever was in jail.

She was meeting with her probation officer on May 31st. We scrambled to get things done the week before. She had several bags of clothes and some possessions at the Ash Street house, which had to be moved out. Then she planned to go to Taxi Man’s apartment to detox. Then back to her mom’s, where she planned to stay.

When I picked her up on the northside, I waited in the car for over an hour, as I got sporadic texts from her, telling me she needed more time, that she was working to get things together. After a while I drove to the all night cigar/news shop, a few blocks away to smoke and kill some time, as I waited for her to text me. But two more hours went by, with nothing.

By this time it was going on four AM. I finally went home and went to bed, thinking we could try again tomorrow.

I went back the next evening, but it was the same situation, waiting in the car, her texting, telling me she was getting ready. After a few hours, I left. This was getting ridiculous. She texted me early the next morning -- around 7 - saying she was ready to be picked up. I grabbed a coffee and headed back over.

When I pulled up there were two hobo-esque people standing alongside the house, in the driveway, looking disheveled, out of it. Naomi came out a few moments later. I got out of the car and walked up to the porch. She handed me her backpack. “I’ve got a bunch more stuff to bring down.” she said, as she went back inside and up the stairs.

I put the backpack in the backseat, on top my my keyboard case. A moment later, I put another bag in the car and noticed a tiny brown bug on top of the case.

When I lifted the backpack I saw a handful of the little buggers. “Fuck me,” I thought. God dammit.

“There are bed bugs on your fucking bags,” I yelled at Naomi, when she came down. “Jesus Christ.”

“Look, I’ve had a terrible night. I am going to wash all this stuff when we get to Taxi Man’s place.

I took all the bags out of the car and put them on the sidewalk, checking for the critters. The ones on the keyboard case I scooped up with a napkin. I’d never seen bed bugs before. They were logy little bastards. For years I’d heard horror stories about them and was terrified to get back in the car, but managed somehow.

After I dropped her off I wasn’t sure what to do as I thought the car might be contaminated. I checked my body carefully when I got home but didn’t bring my keyboard into the house, keeping it in the trunk of the car for several months. I took off all my clothes and washed them.

Over the next few days, as Naomi detoxed, I brought her food, fast food burgers and some of her favorite candy. I’d park in the lot behind Taxi Man’s apartment and wait for her to come out. She looked rough - wearing sweat pants, her hair greasy and matted. Detoxing or dope sickness, felt like you had the flu, she explained to me - body aches, chills, sudden temperature changes, sweating one moment, shivering the next.

I was encouraged that she had the discipline to do this on her own, and took that as a sign that she was ready to put drugs behind her. I was looking forward to probation. She’d get her life back, and she wouldn’t be able to use drugs without getting caught. It was a win win. There was so much we’d be able to do now - going out to dinner, planning trips. We’d be able to got to Old Forge in the fall to see the changing leaves.

The day before probation, I messaged Naomi, about when she wanted me to pick her up. The plan was to run a few errands, then go out to eat, then I’d drop her off at her mom’s. She texted back about a change of plans. Now her father wanted to take her home. We could hang out after at her mom’s, she explained. Dinner might still be doable, depending on when they got back, she said. When I checked in with her later that evening, she was having dinner with her father. They’d stopped at a restaurant, at the “last minute.”

I was disappointed. This was supposed to be our night. I’d been looking forward to it all week.

Naomi texted at 9:30 when she got back home. She invited me over and had a “gift” for me, she said. She still had bags of clothes in my car that she needed to get. When I got to her mom’s house, I pulled into the driveway and texted her. The outside lights were off. It was dark, no moonlight. Naomi came out and handed me a cream soda. “So that’s my gift? How sweet,” I said. I smiled, thanked her and gave her a hug. As she started taking the bags out of the backseat I noticed a shadowy figure on the house steps. When I looked closer I saw that it was Alex. She walked over and started handing him the bags.

Alex! Really? I thought.

He walked over and put his hand out. I shook it and said hello, then walked back to the car with Naomi.

“You guys went out to dinner,” I asked her, speaking quietly, so he wouldn’t hear me.

“My father took us out. He was with his new girlfriend. It wasn’t planned or anything.”

I couldn’t believe it. I’d busted my butt helping her all week, staying up all night waiting for her, giving her rides, and she blew off our dinner and went with Alex? Why didn’t she ask me to join her father and her?

“Come in, we can hangout,” she said.

“I don’t know. I think I should get home.”

“Just come inside.”

“I’m not mad. I’m just tired and I want to get home.”

I hugged her, got back in the car and drove off, feeling hurt, sad, like my guts had been trampled.

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