Author: skayda
Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2012 7:55 am
Hi all!
I have all good things to say now: I am three years clean and sober from a pain pill addiction and Suboxone and therapy helped me through it ever step of the way. After a long and sometimes tiresome journey I finally managed to scrap together enough money to get everything I need in order to go back to work as a Registered Nursing Assistant. After looking for work for almost the same amount of time as I’ve been clean, I finally got offered a position at an AFH. I went through the eight hour training with another caregiver and it’s not a job I would have felt "safe" accepting in active addiction because they care for chronic Cancer and dementia clients there and have schedule II and III narcotics on the premises. But, I can honestly say that my interest in them, while I was helping the other caregiver get the meds ready for the clients while I was there, was absolutely zero percent to the point where I forgot about them until I remembered about this forum a couple of days later and then was reminded that I wanted to post another positive thing regarding Suboxone treatment, etc. I am so grateful for the makers of Suboxone and my group of people in out-patient therapy with me that have helped me come far enough in my recovery that I can shove any would be temptation far away from me and work at a job I used to love before my addiction and I’m sure I will love again now that I’m back to it. Plus, being a caregiver is recession proof in this job market so there’s that. I did not get hooked on the pain meds from being around patients with them, I never had to steal them because I had friends who’d give them to me for free, but those people are no longer my friends. Anyway, it really does work, Suboxone and therapy! I love life so much, if that’s not too cliche to say, and now my thoughts are pretty much fixated on getting a Kindle Fire or an iPad 2 with the money I will be making from my new job. I guess you could say my new addiction is new computer/tablets/electronic doo-dads. Lol! The idea of playing with and owning a brand new state of the art tablet pc thrills me in much the same way that opiates used to do before. One was a crushing, horrible addiction. The other is a borderline celebrity crush/hobby! Right now I have a Velocity Micro Cruz Tablet T301 and an iPod Touch 4g. The latter of which I am using to write this post with. 
Sincerely,
~Ami
~Ami
