You can picture the fervor that happened when it was revealed that one Sunday morning Jenny had lost consciousness because of intoxication. If truth be told, the article in the hometown weekly paper reported that Jenny not only became unconscious, but that she also was arrested for driving while drunk because her blood alcohol level was significantly more than the legal limit. This is evidently one of the alcohol effects on the body that no Sunday school teacher wants to have made known to the entire town. But this is specifically what took place, much to the embarrassment of Jenny.

Jenny Gets Very Dissatisfied About Her Arrest for Drunk Driving

Needless to say, Jenny was extremely distraught about her drunk driving arrest. Not only should she have known better about drinking and driving because of her nursing job, but she also should have held herself accountable to a more lofty yardstick because of the simple fact that she taught Sunday school.

After her DWI arrest, Jenny was tempted to move out of town so that she would not have to feel depressed about her arrest and also so she wouldn’t have to defend her actions for the five hundredth time to the other members of her community. After going over things with her reverend, nevertheless, she made up her mind that she would get alcohol treatment at a local drug and alcohol rehab hospital. She did this for two straightforward reasons. First, it was relatively convenient for her to drive to a local treatment facility. And second, she truthfully wanted the message to get distributed among all the residents in town that she was sincerely dealing with her abusive and hazardous drinking.

Jenny Goes Through Alcohol Detoxification and Gets an Extensive Examination

After Jenny went through detox, she got thoroughly checked by a doctor at the drug and alcohol treatment facility. She then underwent a variety of lab tests where it was ascertained that she was not an alcoholic but rather was engaging in irresponsible and abusive drinking. In short Jenny was engaging in long term alcohol abuse.

Jenny was given the choice of getting alcohol rehab as a residential patient or getting alcohol rehabilitation as an outpatient. Jenny, then again, thought that she could still work as an RN and maintain her Sunday school teaching position if she were to be registered as an out-patient and this is precisely what she did.

According to her therapy action plan, Jenny went to four rehabilitation sessions per week, she learned a lot about alcohol info, she worked on her homework “duties,” and she learned how to do things in life that did not have anything to do with alcohol.

After thirteen weeks, Jenny determined that her abusive and unhealthy drinking was under control and so she got released from the drug and alcohol rehab center under the stipulation that she would return for a refresher course once per month for the next eight months. Jenny signed an agreement form and followed through on her “word.”

Jenny Decides to Refrain From Any and All Drinking Circumstances and Finds Out That Her Positive Attitude About Herself Becomes More Enhanced

After she finished her therapy Jenny felt that she would be able to drink in moderation. After pondering her situation more thoroughly, nonetheless, she decided that she would absolutely remove herself from all drinking circumstances.

When Jenny made this decision, she learned that her self-respect became more augmented the more she took control over her life. And as her self-worth became more established, it appeared that she became more extroverted and started attending more town activities such as Christmas tree lighting ceremonies, flower festivals, carnivals, music festivals, rib roasts, strawberry festivals, and local high school basketball and football games.

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

Over time, the people in the town exhibited more care for Jenny because she was intermingling with them more regularly and also because she faced her careless and excessive drinking and made up her mind to do something productive about it. It may have been her imagination, but it also appeared that her Sunday school students showed more admiration and respect for her.

Jenny is a living example of someone who had a serious problem and who did something constructive about it. She is also an individual 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.