Jackson County
Died: June 9, 2021
She wanted to be a good mom
When she died, Sami Fisher had one photo on her new cellphone — which she had taken that day — of three pills.
“My three little Percs,” she had written.
Sami, who had battled an opioid addiction for several years, bought the pills with part of her tax refund check. Jamie Fisher doesn’t believe that her daughter, who was home with her 2-year-old son, had any idea that the pills contained fentanyl.
“She would have never put herself at risk with my grandson being there,” she said.
Toxicology results showed that when Sami died June 9, 2021, she had a large amount of fentanyl and generic Xanax in her system. But no signs of Percocet.
It’s what Fisher feared could happen, and why she cautioned her daughter about fentanyl and the destruction it was causing across the country. She told Sami that people were unknowingly buying pills that were laced with the synthetic opioid and they were dying.
“She’d say, ‘Mom, no, no, I know what I would be taking if I was taking it,’” Fisher said. “She had this mentality that ‘this isn’t going to be me.’”
The young woman suffered from mental illness, which her family believes led to the opioid addiction. As Fisher put it: “I think she tried to escape from it by using narcotics. Being an addict, I think it helped her to feel numb, get away from the effects of her mental illness or feel like she could actually function.”
Growing up, Sami was “vibrant” and “very funny,” her mom said.
“She’s just a really fun-loving person,” Fisher said. “She had really good comebacks for anything.”
And now, Jamie sees that in her grandson, Oaklin — Sami’s only child. Recently, he had done something he wasn’t supposed to do and he replied, “That was the other Oaklin, not this Oaklin.”
“He’s just like his mother,” Jamie said, a lift in her voice. “The hugs and the love and attitude.”
At one point after high school, Sami wanted to be a psychologist. Then she had Oaklin when she was 21. After that, her goals centered on him. She wanted to be a good mother.
“You could see light in her whenever he did anything,” Sami’s mom said. “You can see how he just made her better, brought joy to her that we hadn’t seen for awhile.”
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