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You are in ACTUAL recovery not NAZI "recovery". Your recovery involved you recognizing you had a problem then taking the necessary steps to deal with it and its working for you. In monitoring land they have drank the 12 step cool aide. I'm very afraid that if you don't mouth the right verbiage about how 12 stepping saved your life they are going to label you as a white-knuckler and send you to reprogramming / inpatient / IOP / BS. Anyway, if I were you I'd memorize some steps, have a friend play along with a sponsor rouse, attend some meetings (or at least say you do). You gotta play along with these idiots. They really are one-trick ponies and if you don't sing the company song they will only torture you more. In short lie through your teeth

nurse_girlie

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I was able to contact evaluation center and have a conversation. A few things. I was asked why I said I was on a deadline and needed to schedule this by Monday (that was me politely asking for a quick call back on voicemail). I figured if I was like I'd rather not discuss that now lets do this it would make me seem guilty of what Ms. Monitoring has been pointing at me saying I did this "entire time". So shoot, I stated in matter of fact way that I was told that I had been given 14 days to schedule an eval and never followed through. That didn't happen, so this is like a last chance thing. The lady actually then asked who had I spoken to and listed Ms. Monitoring by first name. I was like you have got to be ******* me. I wasn't suprised by any means, but I'm not feeling good about any of this. One piece of good news (for now) is that come to find out it's a 5 day eval (not 3 or 4 :/ )- but i dont actually have to stay for 5 days as I was lead to believe. I get to drive home every evening to my kid. So, there is that. I was told to call back to arrange for this Monday (I told her I needed to make arrangements for my kid). So I have called back twice to arrange this since this morning and haven't heard back....thanks for talking with me you guys. I've been checking this site frequently throughout the day and every little bit of conversation helps immensely. Thank you.

At least you get to go home at night. I loathed inpatient and the thing I probably hated the most was that I felt like I was locked up. I'd never do that again

nurse_girlie

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The facility closes at 4. I've called 4 times. Here's to hoping this will be arranged tomorrow. It just stresses me out more because I was told to call back today for arrangements.... who is to say that person will even be there tomorrow :(

Persephone Paige, ADN

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The facility closes at 4. I've called 4 times. Here's to hoping this will be arranged tomorrow. It just stresses me out more because I was told to call back today for arrangements.... who is to say that person will even be there tomorrow :(

This is where your documentation will come in. Okay, so you misunderstood something. You've owned that, now you understand. Write down everything that you're doing to be compliant now that you understand. Those of us who are chiming in probably didn't get this way overnight, we learned to pay attention to every little word.

I'm rooting for you, you sweet lovely. You can do this: One step at a time, one brick at a time, one day at a time. You're sober... now put together everything you've done to stay that way.

nurse_girlie

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I called both board and facility relentlessly today. Left messages. Hit someone with an email (one of those things that can't be twisted) with dates, times and messages left. I go this Monday. Scary stuff, but I am sort of becoming more accepting of what ever is to come of this I will keep moving. It will be devastating if I am faced with treatment that I can't afford to move foward. But, if that is what happens I will try to find another goal that I can become passionate about. Still gotta build a better life for the kiddo. Thanks all.

Specializes in ICU; Telephone Triage Nurse.

I did my time when home computers were rare, and cellphones didn't exist yet. Things were more straightforward. Now it seems like there are a lot of added steps with attached trip wires and hidden mine fields. It's toe the line precisely or ... BOOM!

To get through a program like this you must become OCD: document, document, document. Follow everything specified exactly to the letter. To beat it I viewed it as if it were a mental chess game of endurance - who can be the more persistent?

I used to think my very OCD behavior of "dot every I, and cross every T" (then triple check it) mentality came from nursing school - it didn't. It came from successfully completing a diversion option program. That tendency is reflected in my charting, and co-workers to this day still ask me about it constantly. I am not going to enlighten them of it's origin.

I still shudder to think after following all the rules exactly that when the end came they didn't want to let me go, but had no reason not to. I also swore they would NEVER have me again.

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