08/04/2023
The HTSpore Foundation helps people find treatment. We are boots on the ground working daily to help those suffting find an end to theiir pain. This is accomplished through our outsideIN program.
We also disttribute Narcan and we have built many wonderful partners. Two weekends ago I gave out over 240 units of Narcan to my friend, colleague, and fellow person in recovery, Stephanie Smith. Stephanie has one of the most amazing stories of perseverance and mental fortitude I have ever heard.
While visiting her family over the weekend, Stephanie, who lost her son to an overdose, listened to the horrible sounds from a nearby apartment of a mother screaming that her daughter was not breathing and feared dead. Stephanie ran to the apartment and administered Narcan to this young lady, a daughter, and a mother herself. She had to use two whole boxes of Narcan nasal inhalers to bring the lady back from dying until paramedics could arrive.
I was talking with a nurse at The Recovery Village today about how when you save a life, it is done one at a time. The inspiration I get daily from the work I see others do saves my life over and over. That is why I started the HTSpore Foundation. We are saving lives one at a time you just never know when it will be you that is called upon to do the saving. Thank you to the Stephanies of the world for being those beacons of hope that never stop showing their faith in humanity.