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Olivia Bouquets is opening up about her brother Conner Flowers’ unpredicted dying.
In accordance to the “Southern Charm” star, the coroner dominated that her 32-year-previous sibling died from an accidental overdose of fentanyl on Jan. 30, a long time after currently being prescribed opioids to take care of serious pain stemming from his longtime battle with Lyme condition.
“My brother hated chatting about his illness,” she explained to Individuals in an interview released Nov. 1. “So lots of men and women, even in his shut circle, didn’t know about his Lyme.”
Lyme ailment is an disease brought on by the borrelia germs that is usually transmitted as a result of the bite of an contaminated tick, according to the Facilities of Disorder Handle and Avoidance. Indications vary from fever, headache and tiredness to severe bacterial infections in the heart and anxious procedure if still left untreated.
Bouquets said “debilitating” signs of Conner’s Lyme disease first surfaced when he was 15. Although the household swiftly sought enable from various clinical industry experts, she recalled that “Conner was just instructed more than and more than, ‘It’s all in your head, you might be fine'” and was specified painkillers and drugs for his associated stress in its place.
“He begun depending, at a really young age, on this prescription medication to really feel normal,” Bouquets stated. “And we as a relatives commenced to see this toll it took on his physique.”
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As he struggled with his indicators, Conner grew to become addicted to the prescription medicine he assumed was aiding him, according to Flowers. And when her brother at last observed a specialist who could assistance him with his disease, Bouquets claimed the health issues experienced prompted so much interior hurt to his wellness that “not only was he finding cure for Lyme, but he was also in rehab working with receiving off this drugs.”
“No one wanted to get far better far more than Conner did,” she shared. “It was just these a hard time. We are incredibly, incredibly shut as a spouse and children. We were all incredibly involved and rallied round him. But for yrs he was just in and out of rehab, attempting so really hard to get on the other aspect of this.”
Flowers continued, “People, when they hear words and phrases like ‘rehab’ or ‘drugs,’ they suppose the even worse. But these were not substances he turned to for partying. This was drugs. This is what produced him experience ordinary.”
The Bravo individuality reported Conner was “totally thoroughly clean” just weeks in advance of his death, when the relatives traveled to Arizona to take a look at him at the wellness centre in which he was being.
“He was in the very best form I might witnessed him in years,” Bouquets recalled. “He had large dreams he wished to attain. And he was chatting about his designs to transfer to Dallas, Texas, where he by now experienced careers lined up.”
The siblings were being meant to meet up with up for dinner at the family’s South Carolina residence in late January, just a week prior to Conner’s 33rd birthday. However, Conner hardly ever showed up.
“It was just so mad,” Bouquets claimed of her brother’s passing. “We were being on the mobile phone not even an hour earlier. And then… he is absent.”
Flowers shared that Conner experienced a relapse that turned deadly. “So yet again, to hear he died of a fentanyl overdose, there is certainly quickly going to be this assumption that he was partying,” she stated. “Conner was not like that. This was his implies to survive.”
Calling the decline “heartbreaking,” Olivia additional, “There are these holes in the health care process, and my brother fell into just one.”
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