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Bridgette B. can tell you: Recovery isn't easy. She gave it an earnest try in 1994. But, before long, she was using again. Six years later, after giving birth to a beautiful little girl with webbed fingers and a leg that hadn't developed below the knee, Bridgette entered treatment again. After five months, she was sure she had kicked her addiction. Despite the pleas of TWTC staff, who thought she was overly optimistic, Bridgette checked out of residential treatment.
Three months later, she discovered that her counselors were correct. She wasn't yet ready or willing to resist the lure of drugs. What was she to do now -- return to the center and admit that she was wrong? What would they think? Looking at her baby, who'd suffered the consequences of her mother's drug abuse, Bridgette wondered, what do they already think of me? She weighed the alternatives and bravely made the call.
It was after-hours when she and her infant daughter Trinity arrived at The Women's Treatment Center.
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