For the last month, Cheryl Jueer has been getting up early and logging on to a website called

Skotis blog.

Oh, I've been watching every decision there. to a website called Skotis blog.

Oh, I've been watching every decision day.

So I, 10 o'clock every morning I turn it on.

Cheryl has been waiting for the support. clock every morning I turn it on.

Cheryl has been waiting for the Supreme Court to weigh in on the last five years of her life.

And if that feels like an overstatement, it really isn't. Those five years, that's the time Cheryl's

invested negotiating with Purdue Pharma and the billionaire Sackler family, the

makers of OxyContin.

Cheryl was a part of a team of people who convinced Purdue to sign off on a $6 billion settlement

agreement for the harm their drugs caused. Last week, the Supreme Court ruled this settlement cannot move forward.

I literally did not expect that decision.

And of course you see it was close, five to four.

But I really, I didn't see it coming.

I tried to reach Cheryl the day this decision came down but she didn't pick up.

I have been beyond mentally exhausted I guess. I literally slept all day yesterday. I watched the verdict come in and was so taken back by it. I was not expecting to react the way I reacted.

It was a sucker punch and I felt like I had lost my two kids all over again.

Cheryl, you see, she was negotiating with Purdue as a survivor of opioid abuse.

Two of her three sons died after overdosing.

And I've talked to a few other moms who felt the exact same way.

So I just, I literally cried and cried and I was emotionally exhausted.

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