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Trigger warning possible suicide?

12 years ago I lost my mom. I was 20. she was addicted to alcohol and cough syrup (dxm)

Recently I found a lump on my right breast. I’m getting screened for breast cancer. In doing so my doctor needed more information on my mom if she was BRCA positive ( cancer gene mutation)

I got a copy of her medical records from the cancer treatment center. 5 days before her death she went Into the doctor. He vitals were fine, heart sounds were good and lung sounds as well.

This tripped me up. Surely if she had died from Congestive heart failure ( what I was told) her numbers would be off.

Well I ended up requesting her autopsy from the state because things weren’t adding up.

I specifically wanted to see her toxicology report.

I got It back. She was positive for alcohol and had almost 10 times above the normal of DXM in her system. According to chat gpt there 2-2.5 bottles of cough syrup. I also know she had at least 3+ beers in her system (she was 5ft 10 and 128lbs) I also read that her peak amount of dxm was probably closer to 1.5

On her autopsy It is listed as chf but there’s notes stating that the addiction was a part of It.

So. Given all of that. Is that a crazy amount of cough syrup to consume in one sitting?

If you are addicted to It is It something you sip on? Or chug.

I’m convinced she killed herself at this point. Or accidentally did whatever.

I just am trying to understand I guess what her final hours may have been. And if getting to that point was intentional or just routine.