'My son wouldn't have gone into care if I'd had more support'

'My son wouldn't have gone into care if I'd had more support'

Sharon Graham's son was taken into care 15 years ago after she began struggling with drug and alcohol addiction.

The hardest decision: Choosing residential care for my son

On my first night alone, I deleted alarms for my then-10-year-old son from my phone: five for running his feeding tube, one for picking him up from daycare, one for stopping his pump at midnight before anesthesia. In doing so, I removed the scaffolding that held my days in place for nine years. WD’s medications remained lined up on the kitchen island, discarded one by one as they passed their use-by date, cases of formula stacked under the sink,…