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Crystal

Thank you for writing your article about Project My SISTER’S KEEPER.

I have one younger sister. We are as different as night and day. We have the same parents, but that is where it all stops.

When we were growing up I always thought she was the prettiest, smartest, most liked, most everything.

I was four years older than my sister. After high school I went to work, got married, had a son and within seven years I was divorced. I was a single mom for 18 years. My son’s father had nothing to do with him, so I was both mom and dad.

My sister went to college and graduated. She moved to New York City and worked for an international women’s magazine for years. She had a very high powered job and traveled all over the country, but something happened to her in NY over 30 years ago.
No one knows what happened. She was fired and after months and months, my mother decided to bring her back home.

She moved back home. My mother was a register nurse and she did everything possible to help her overcome her depression. She had weekly appointments with licensed psychiatrist for years. She saw the best doctor’s money could buy. But nothing really changed. It wasn’t until she developed a medical problem was seen by a regular MD did we learn about another major problem. The psychiatrist had given her valium for years to settle her down and she was addicted to the drug. She was unable to function. Without her knowledge she was placed in a 30 day detox center for the first of several times.

My sister was never easy to live with as a child or as an adult. She has a very difficult personality. The valium was a cover up. All hell broke loose as she was taken off the medication.

Over the next 20 years she has been in and out of hospitals. She has been so depressed she has spent months in different type of hospitals. Over the years she has learned she is bipolar.

The worst part of all of this she is smart enough to know enough different doctors by first name bases she was able to get all the medications she wanted or thought she needed by just asking. She would read all the medical journals and be able to talk the same language as the doctor. She would go to the emergency room and use the doctor in charge. She did not have a primary doctor in charge of her case.

At one time in her life she was taking so many different types of medications, her body closed down. She was unable to get out of bed, or go to the bathroom or feed herself. She was in and out of the hospitals. She weighed less than 100 pounds. She never weighed
more than 110 pounds in her life, except at one time when she was taking a medication that increased her weight to 150 pounds

My sister’s boyfriend was taking her to the emergency room almost daily, but they would not admit her. He called me and asked me what to do. I told him to leave her in the emergency room. She was finally admitted and the doctors took her off all her medications. Because of all of her medical history, she also had trouble getting insurance at affordable rates. At this time she has no insurance, so she is covered by the government.

She woke up and started talking and eating. She does not remember anything of this period of time. It is all a blank.

With all of this, my sister is still a believer in pills. YOU CAN’T GET WELL IF YOU DO NOT TAKE PILLS.

She is now 61 years old, but she appears to be going on a 100. She is four years younger than me. She has never married.

As I said earlier over the years she has taken 100’s of different high powered medications for everything from A-Z. She has taken as many as 12 pills at the same time. Her system has so many chemicals she will never function has a healthy person again. She is currently on oxygen to help her breathe her lung capacity is 27%.

I still have concern for my Sister’s well being but am often at a loss as to how to really help. Most of the time she is aware enough to think she can control what is going on in her life.

I would be interested in joining your program.

Linda Baccus
Founding Member
BraveHeart Women Global Community


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Hello Crystal! I'm so glad to meet you. What an awesome and inspiring project of unconditioned love. Your project will not only be a great encouragement, but the idea of the project will greatly inspire other leaders to launch new communities and introduce their passions.


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"Therefore we pledge to bind ourselves to one another,
to embrace our lowliest,
to keep company with our loneliest,
to educate our illiterate, to feed our starving,
to clothe our ragged,
to do all good things,
knowing that we are more than
keepers of our brothers and sisters

We are our Brothers and Sisters."
-- Maya Angelou

Since losing my older sister, Tammy Marie Boyet-Sawyer, in January 2009 to an accidental prescription drug (prescription narcotics & antidepressants) overdose, I have felt compelled to do WHATEVER IT TAKES to save our "sisters" from the deadly epidemic of prescription drug addiction.

There is so much to do.
I founded "project MY SISTERS KEEPER" to use as a tool to educate, support, and promote the changes necessary to End The Deadly Prescription Addiction Epidemic that is plaguing the women, children, and families of our nation.

If you are at all with familiar with addiction and addiction recovery, you have no doubt heard the term "rock bottom".

Families of addicts who are desperate to save their loved one are commonly told that for an addict to want to get treatment THEY MUST REACH "ROCK BOTTOM".

For an addict, their rock bottom is usually the place where the seriousness of their situation is finally realized. It is the place where they are no longer able to live in denial of the situation.

Well, I ask each of you then, where's our "ROCK BOTTOM?

When do we as women, citizens and leaders stand up in a unified voice and say that WE WILL NO LONGER ENABLE PRESCRIPTION ADDICTION by our apathy, ignorance or inaction.

How many more mothers, daughters and sisters are we willing to lose to prescription drug addiction & accidental overdose?

How many more women and children will we allow to be forever changed by the destruction that is addiction.

WE CAN CHANGE the statistics.

WE CAN BREAK the cycle.

WE WILL SAVE LIVES.

WE WILL provide and inspire HOPE by promoting PREVENTION and RECOVERY.

WE WILL eradicate stigma by promoting EMPATHY AWARENESS and EDUCATION.

I look forward to talking with you and getting to know your story and dreams.

I always welcome any ideas or suggestions that you may have to increase awareness or further this important cause. At this time we are a movement but are working towards becoming an official 501c3 recognized non profit organization, If you have insight into this process, I would love the opportunity to learn from you.

My dream is that Project My Sisters Keeper will become a symbol of hope and inspiration for women, children & families and a memorial of steadfast faith, love and determination to all of the mothers, sisters, wives, and daughters whose voices were rendered silent by this deadly disease of addiction

Sincerely,
project MY SISTERS KEEPER Founder
Crystal Boyet-Hampton
crystalboyethampton @projectmysisterskee per.org
217-204-1947


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"project MY SISTERS KEEPER"

WE CAN CHANGE the "statistics".

WE CAN BREAK the cycle.

WE WILL SAVE LIVES.

WE WILL provide and inspire HOPE by promoting PREVENTION and RECOVERY.

WE WILL eradicate stigma by promoting AWARENESS and EDUCATION.