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Hey all! I finally got treatment scheduled (six months practicing sobriety, four months calling/showing up, and finding a different treatment center later). I have been a very active participant in AA, but my word, the focus on trying to get into treatment provided an incredible amount of distraction. When i got the call today I felt...floored, anxious. I spoke with my sponsor and realized it was because my journey thus far has been my choice, I show up to meetings even when don't want to, but with the understanding that I can choose not to show up. This is a whole new level of surrender. This just got really real! I've said it before and it remains true, every step in this adventure is terrifying to me, but as soon as I get there it is never as terrifying as it feels when it remains in the confines of my mind. Cheers to the next terrifying step!

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Keep your heart open to embrace the changes you have "CHOSEN" to make. Then enjoy the process. Peace

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Don't forget, each step of this journey is your choice. And congratulations on reaching this next step!

Best wishes

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Uhm...so one of my old patients is in treatment with me...only a little awkward. I'll get back when I figure out how I feel about it. Anyone else run across this?

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Ive seen 2 people in meetings whose children are my patients. One addressed me in the office about going to mtg. Definitely awkward. I am feeling ya'.

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One of my first 12 step meetings, I ran into a man I had as a patient in ICU many years before. This man was a garden variety drunk and we would frequently be giving him beer every 4 hours per physician orders. Nurses would fight over who had to take this man because he was beyond difficult. One night he coded while I was on duty- obviously we revived him successfully -

When he saw me and I him, both broken beyond repair at this AA meeting we both gave eachother a very long and tearful embrace. That was three years ago- I have seen this man grow in recovery into a true success story for what a higher power and 12 steps can do. It has been a great experience and I now call this man my friend and brother in AA.

This is the day The Lord has made, we shall rejoice and be glad in it.

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Held to a higher standard...even in treatment? Well folks I am three weeks into treatment and I aam loving it! With exception of my previous patient...she keeps saying sarcastic snippets like "you really can't relate to us, someone like you doesn't get it" and "I am so sure you'll have struggles, ccome on, you've got a nursing license". So I pulled her aside after group the other day and asked her to please view me as a patient, just like her, because that is what I am. I further told her to please stop mentioning that I am a nurse, I don't want to feel alienated ffrom my peers or have tthem view me as "different" because im not. It's frustrating. Any other ideas on how I can approach this? I wish she would just admit to everyone that she was my patient because otherwise I can't break confidentiality and ask my counselor for help.

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Slight correction: everyone knows I am a nurse there, I guess i just don't like the emphasis she places on it.

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She sounds like a *****

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Specializes in ER, TRAUMA, MED-SURG.
Uhm...so one of my old patients is in treatment with me...only a little awkward. I'll get back when I figure out how I feel about it. Anyone else run across this?

Oh wow! That would be hard for me to deal with!

Anne, RNC

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