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For the past thirty years Jenny has been a nurse practitioner at a small general hospital. Furthermore she has also been teaching Sunday school at the local Calvinist Church. Although she lived in a small rural town where it seemed that everybody knew everyone’s business, relatively little was known about Jenny. It almost goes without saying that almost every person in town knew that she had worked several years as a professional nurse and that she taught Sunday school for as long as she was a resident of their town. Other than that, nevertheless, it almost appeared as if Jenny was simply a visitor in their community.

You can envisage the ballyhoo that was created when it was revealed that one Sunday morning Jenny had passed out because of drinking and driving. Indeed, the article in the neighborhood weekly newspaper stated that Jenny not only became unconscious, but that she also was arrested for driving while drunk because her blood alcohol concentration was significantly higher than the legal limit for intoxication. This is clearly one of the alcohol effects on the body that no Sunday school teacher wants to have discussed by the entire community. But this is exactly what took place, much to the embarrassment of Jenny.

Jenny Gets Quite Dissatisfied About Her Arrest for Drunk Driving

It almost goes without saying that Jenny was very dismayed about her arrest for driving while intoxicated. Not only should she have known better about drinking and driving because of her nursing profession, but she also should have conducted herself according to a more lofty benchmark because of the straightforward fact that she taught Sunday school.

After her arrest, Jenny was tempted to move out of town so that she would not have to feel upset about her arrest and also so she wouldn’t have to justify her actions for the one thousandth time to other town residents. After talking to her pastor, then again, she finally determined that she would get alcohol therapy at a local rehab hospital. She did this for two basic reasons. First, it was relatively convenient for her to drive to a local rehabilitation clinic. And second, she genuinely wanted the message to get distributed among all the individuals in the community that she was openly dealing with her abusive drinking.

Jenny Goes Through Detox and Gets an Extensive Physical Examination

After Jenny went through detoxification, she was extensively checked by a physician at the drug and alcohol rehab hospital. She then underwent two or three laboratory procedures where it was determined that she was not an alcoholic but instead was engaging in abusive and irresponsible drinking. In short Jenny was engaging in long term alcohol abuse.

Jenny was presented with the alternative of getting alcohol treatment as an in-patient or getting alcohol counseling as an outpatient. Jenny, nonetheless, felt that she could still work at the hospital and carry on with her Sunday school teaching position if she were to be admitted as an out-patient and this is precisely what she did.

According to her therapy protocol, Jenny went to three counseling sessions twice per month, she learned a lot about alcohol info, she worked on her take home “duties,” she got treatment for her depression and other mental health issues, and she discovered how to accomplish things in life that did not have anything to do with drinking.

After twelve weeks, Jenny realized that her unhealthy and excessive drinking was under control and so she got discharged from the rehab hospital under the provision that she would return for follow up therapy once per month for the next nine months. Jenny agreed and followed through on her “pledge.”

Jenny Finally Determines to Abstain From Any and All Drinking Circumstances and Finds Out That Her Sense of Worth Becomes More Enhanced

After she finished her rehab Jenny concluded that she would be able to drink more responsibly than before. After pondering her situation more intently, nonetheless, she decided that she would absolutely abstain from any and all drinking situations.

When Jenny arrived at this conclusion, she discovered that her self esteem became more augmented the more efficiently she managed her life. And as her self esteem became more established, it seemed like she became more extroverted and started attending more town activities such as local high school basketball and football games, music festivals, carnivals, Christmas tree lighting ceremonies, flower festivals, rib roasts, and strawberry festivals.

Jenny Faces Her Irresponsible and Hazardous Drinking, Makes up Her Mind To Do Something Productive About It, and Reaffirms Her Faith

As the time passed, the individuals in the town expressed more affection for Jenny because she was involving herself with them more frequently and also because she faced her drinking problem and did something positive about it. It may have been her imagination, but it also appeared that her Sunday school students demonstrated more admiration and respect for her.

Jenny is a living example of an individual who faced a critical predicament and who did something affirmative about it. She is also a person who discovered that her religious faith is not only something that is intrinsic, but that it is also something that affects the way in which a person cooperates and works with other people.