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[NoraC]

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WELCOME BACK, ZEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:welcome::welcome::welcome::welcome::welcome:

[FlyAway]

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Welcome home Zen! :l

[Byrdlady]

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Best Wishes from me, too! To new beginnings!!! Byrdie

[Cinders]

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Yay!! I see Zenners is back.

Whoop Whoop!!

WB, girl. Check in when you can.

Love,
Cindi

[NoraC]

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:bump:
:yourespecial::disco::yougo::yougo:

WELCOME BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Zenstyle]

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Thanks everyone for keeping me in mind!!! :l

I'm copying & pasting a post I just put on the Army thread. Some parts of rehab were funny, some were very sad. The camaraderie was phenomenal. I just got off the phone with my first room mate (I had two as the first one left two weeks after I got there) and will defo be keeping in touch with a few of the folk I met there (my two room mates and another alkie in particular). They call the rehab group "the community" and every time someone said it, I was reminded of MWO... )

If anyone is thinking of doing rehab, I can vouch for the fact that it affords you time to work on yourself and get your compulsion to drink under control. The more time you put between yourself and AL, the easier it gets to remain AF... so the 30 or 60 or however many days you do in rehab (I extended a little past the 30 days... I went to the end of the week so I could get a bit more out of it) is a really good building block. I was stunned at how little I thought of alcohol while I was in there. I had a bit of a rocky patch when I got out on Saturday and went back to "reality" but I'm fine today (well, apart from looking at a mammoth house clean-up... ugh!). The gaff looks like a bomb went off while I was gone. (

Thanks again for the well-wishes! ) xxx

Zenstyle;1452147 wrote: Hiya Army brats!!!

Sorry for disappearing yesterday... I got unexpected visitors... had to entertain the buggers and didn't make it back to the p.c. before youz were off to yer beddy byes. Can you believe I haven't even unpacked? I have a day of unpacking, laundry and cleaning ahead of me... welcome friggin home!!!

I'd been planning on posting a few times while I was in "the joint" but we had our privileges taken away due to some unsavoury goings-on with a few of the inmates.... sorry... CLIENTS! ) While I was there, a girl and a guy had sex in the bathroom three times, another girl gave a guy a, err, bl*w job (same bathroom!), one guy smuggled roxys in and a couple of people relapsed on them, one of them snuck out of the residence to buy Red Bulls (energy drinks were banned) which resulted in the techs doing room checks 4-5 times a night while we were sleeping (aaargh!), another snuck out of AA meetings to go shopping for Red Bulls, and three of them did Whippets last Thursday night (huffing the nitrous oxide from Redi Whip cans) as a goodbye party to one girl that was leaving last Friday. Oh, here's a good one... a female client got mad at another client and pissed in her shampoo and body wash (that was quite a trick I reckon... the She Wee sprang to mind!). She also cleaned the bog with her toothbrush. Then she got pissed off at someone else, kicked a wall and broke her toe. FUN FUN FUN I tell ya!!! :H :new:

The sad thing is that the guy and girl that had sex in the bathroom hooked up when they both got out, went on a run with heroin, culminating in the guy overdosing and dying last Friday night. The girl OD'd also and is in hospital. :upset: The guy had done 70 days in the rehab... I guess his obsession was just that strong... (

I learned a lot of things while I was in there. I had now idea how rife drugs are these days... it's horrible what goes on. A lot of the girls sold themselves to get money for drugs, in fact one of the guys did the same thing, and they all robbed their friends and families blind. Just about every one of the addicts lived on the streets at some point. In the way of alkies there was only myself, two guys and my room mate... the rest were addicts. And the going age was 18-22 (hard drugs bring you down in a couple of years, unlike alcohol where you can go on for decades before you reach a crisis point (I'm a good example of that).

So I got a bit more than I bargained for. I'm glad I went, but I'm also glad to be home. If I had it to do over I would have gone to an "adult" rehab. I was clueless... didn't even realize I should have gone to detox first... lol

I'm starting IOP (intensive outpatient) this Wednesday... I'll go 3 times a week for 8 weeks. I'll probably have one session a week with a therapist at the same facility. And afterwards I go into After Care. (Looks like I'll have to change my ticket to Scotland yet once more to accommodate the 8 week IOP...)

The rehab programme was AA based (which I didn't expect) and we had to go to a meeting every night. They suggest you do 90 meetings in 90 days when you get out but I can't manage that, it's too much for moi... so I'll aim for 1-2 a week.

And that is pretty much where I'm at! I have the house to myself today and I'm glad to finally have some peace and quiet!

Okies... orf for a lewk at the boards via the coffee pot. I have become a caffeine fiend. And I started smoking again... rats! EVERYONE smoked... the therapists, clients, techs... everyone. I made it to Day 4 before I picked up a ciggy and bought a pack by the end of the first week. Anyway... I'll tackle a quit again in due course... buggerit!

Oh and we had to do pee tests! Twice a week. Talk about humiliation!!! I'll have to do them at IOP too... ugh...

[mama bear]

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wow....that's all I can say....wow
and I glad you are home sweetie

[Zenstyle]

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mama bear;1452228 wrote: wow....that's all I can say....wow
and I glad you are home sweetie

Glad to BE home!!! (Cleaning notwithstanding!)

It was quite the eye-opener Mama...

[kuya]

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That was quite a ride you had there.....welcome back!

How's Hamish?

[Zenstyle]

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Hiya Kuya!

Hamish seems to be doing fine. He's still on holistic meds and the gingi seems to be held in check. I'll need to make an appointment to take him in so the Vet can examine him. VERY glad I didn't touch his teeth!

[Guitarista]

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Great to see you Zen.

All the very best on your journey. Welcome back.

G bloke. :l

[Zenstyle]

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Thanks Mr G! It's good to be back in the land of the living! I missed all you guys on MWO... :l

[Wildflowers]

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Just checking in to see if your home & one other thread hun. Waiting for call from my girl & am cleaning like a mad woman myself.

Just want you to know I luv you! I'm with Mama, Wow!.....

Plzz as I said in my other post. Don't try & be like me & play catch up at home all in a day or two. The cleaning police aren't after you....

You'd be proud of me. I haven't been on the PC all day. No worries about the ciggies, changing flights, etc...... It's Zenilites time now to focus on sobriety.... :l

[bird]

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Welcome back Zen. Glad you are home:l:l:h

[ThreeDogNight]

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Welcome back, Zen!!

Hope you'll give us an account of how it went for you. And hope it went ell and has given you a "new lease on life!"

:lTDN