Daughter Texts Mom “I’ll Be Home Soon” from Burger King Bathroom—20 Minutes Later, Her Worst Nightmare Comes True


Elaina Towery and her friend had stopped at a Detroit area Burger King to use the restroom on August 10, when the 22-year-old texted her mom, Cheryl, to let her know she’d be home soon.

It was the last text she’d ever receive from her daughter.

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After 20 minutes in the bathroom, Elaina’s friend became worried. It was at this same time that a Burger King employee found the 22-year-old unconscious in the bathroom, and going into cardiac arrest.

Elaina had overdosed for the fifth time in her seven years of battling drug addiction.

Cheryl explains that her daughter first turned to drugs in 2010 after becoming involved in an abusive relationship. She was 15 years old.

Two years later, she got pregnant with her son Christopher, who she gave up in order to ensure he would have a better life.

The abusive boyfriend was eventually convicted of his crimes, but Elaina’s drug addiction continued. She overdosed on five separate occasions, and had been admitted to five different treatment centers for help, but to no avail.

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Cheryl admits that she’s often found her daughter “beat up, being pimped out, being kept in a hotel room on heroin.”

She’s seen her at her worst, and even post-overdose, but Cheryl says this time was nothing like before.

“I wasn’t prepared for what I saw in the emergency room, because that’s the worst I’ve ever seen her. […] She’s my only daughter, my best friend. She was supposed to start her new job today, now she’s on life support.”

Doctors believe that the heroin Elaina took was laced with fentanyl.

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Just three days later, they informed Cheryl that her daughter’s muscles were deteriorating, she was in liver and kidney failure, and showed no brain activity.

Before making the hardest decision of her life—to remove her daughter and best friend from life support—Cheryl took one final picture with Elaina in her hospital bed.

Cheryl prays her daughter’s death may not be in vain, but rather act as a wake up call to the deadly threat of heroin addiction.

She says she hopes the photo will “force other parents, other addicts—everyone—to wake up.”

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