• Amanda Kearney posted an update 3 years, 8 months ago

    So, I’ve been clean since January because I did have 2 relapses but the last one damn near could have killed me! I went into a horrible seizure and fell out the shower and I landed on my mouth, hence losing 5 teeth which did major damage on my self esteem. I get ANGRY when the thought of my past usage comes into my mind because I don’t want to use and I don’t have any desire to use.
    Let me enlighten you about something that happened at my work a couple weeks ago and I was livid. I’m now a cna and I love my job! Well, I have a lot of hyper energy and I love to make my residents happy and most of them love me! Well, I work with someone who is in the NA program like myself, from the Lexington area okay. I had a nurse approach me and ask me what I was on and she doesn’t know me from Adam and Eve. I told her I wasn’t on anything and she said she knew that I used to do drugs, and I asked her how she knew that, but she refused to tell me how, but I have a pretty good guess how, the girl from Lexington.
    She didn’t believe me at all, and I didn’t appreciate her accusatory comments, because I KNOW THAT I AM CLEAN, so the only thing I could say was I’ll take a fucking drug test right now.
    I ended up not having to because a nurse that had left to go home, which is also a recovering addict came back to work and talked to me and she could tell that I wasn’t high.
    So now, I went to my neurologist on Tuesday, and they know now about my past drug use, they sent me to the lab to do a urine drug screen and I can’t wait to get a copy of the results because I’m going to take it to my work and shove it in the nurse’s face who had no business accusing me like she did and say now tell me that I’m high!
    I’ve been doing really good and I’m only going to get better from here.
    Thanks y’all!

    • I can relate. I no longer regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. Also, the truth needs no defense. The blessings lie just beyond life’s difficulty.

    • Hey @AmandaKearney! I’m happy you’re still here with us! A good friend of mine says, “What other people think about me is none of my business.” If I know the truth and someone chooses to believe otherwise, then I am as powerless over their opinion as I am alcohol/drugs.

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