MC DIES SLOW

An eight year journey down the dark hole of the disease of addition

Through personal journals written over eight years of her young life, Mary Catherine (MC) relates the story of her chaotic, sometimes tragic, sometimes heroic struggle with the life-threatening Disease of Drug Addiction. She began as a well-loved and happy child, close to her friends and large, extended family. MC describes long phases of gallantly facing her problems and wrestling the disease into remission, only to confront the insidious ways it can recur and recapture its victim. Over years of struggle, MC’s story slowly became a tale of hopes for her accomplishments slipping away, and all her dreams seemingly dissolving into her Disease of Addiction.

MC’s mother, Marcia begins the battle for her daughter’s life knowing nothing about this disease and learns to understand it better, one day’s struggle at a time. This is a story about a parent whose life is hijacked by the quest to help save her beloved daughter, only to come face-to-face with her own chemical addictions in the process.

Their family journey is like those faced by many who are desperate to help a loved one conquer a powerful condition that is often misunderstood, misdiagnosed as a personal choice rather than a medical disease, and in some cases, even treated criminally. For anyone who faces difficulties with any type of addiction, MC and Marcia hope that this book will help them dispel the shame, confusion, and isolation that often surround it, so that understanding more about the Disease of Addiction can help trigger healing