Chapter 4 The First Moment Of Recovery
After my husband and I had been separated for 15 months, I went to work one day and one of the scrub technicians directed me to our sterile room to pick up a set of instruments. Although I had been on the job for about six months, I didn’t locate all the instruments so easily in that room. The technician was good enough to give me vivid directions from entering the room to picking up the instrument set. When I first entered the room, I paused for a second, then I followed each step of the direction and I found the set I needed and hurried back to the operating room. On any other day, I would most likely return without the instrument and tell the technician I couldn’t find it, or, I would get hold of another nurse to help me find what I needed. Most of the time, I …show more content…
As much as I wish I could turn around and give him another chance, I was afraid of losing my own happiness. I feared allowing him back into my life and realizing I have made another mistake again. I realized the mistakes I had already made when I committed myself to him. Accepting him back into my life would be choosing the kind of life I was not happy with. I believe in life’s happiness, true love, and laughter. For a whole month, we dwelled on this issue of getting back together. When I felt like shutting the door behind me for good, he was trying to open it, but I found no reason to let him in. ABC news blogger, Dr. Anjuli Srivasta, author of the article, “How happiness affects your health”, reported happiness has been correlated with better health, both in individuals and communities. Some studies have suggested that states of happiness may be associated with lower stress-related hormones and better immune function. This growing body of evidence also suggests that happier people live longer, healthier lives (2013), and I simply wanted to be
After my husband and I had been separated for 15 months, I went to work one day and one of the scrub technicians directed me to our sterile room to pick up a set of instruments. Although I had been on the job for about six months, I didn’t locate all the instruments so easily in that room. The technician was good enough to give me vivid directions from entering the room to picking up the instrument set. When I first entered the room, I paused for a second, then I followed each step of the direction and I found the set I needed and hurried back to the operating room. On any other day, I would most likely return without the instrument and tell the technician I couldn’t find it, or, I would get hold of another nurse to help me find what I needed. Most of the time, I …show more content…
As much as I wish I could turn around and give him another chance, I was afraid of losing my own happiness. I feared allowing him back into my life and realizing I have made another mistake again. I realized the mistakes I had already made when I committed myself to him. Accepting him back into my life would be choosing the kind of life I was not happy with. I believe in life’s happiness, true love, and laughter. For a whole month, we dwelled on this issue of getting back together. When I felt like shutting the door behind me for good, he was trying to open it, but I found no reason to let him in. ABC news blogger, Dr. Anjuli Srivasta, author of the article, “How happiness affects your health”, reported happiness has been correlated with better health, both in individuals and communities. Some studies have suggested that states of happiness may be associated with lower stress-related hormones and better immune function. This growing body of evidence also suggests that happier people live longer, healthier lives (2013), and I simply wanted to be