October 31, 2009
A Monday Evening Out With School Buddies at a Local Nightspot Leads To Excessive and Abusive Drinking and Alcohol Poisoning Symptoms
When Janice was in high school, she had gained a reputation as a person who studied a lot and who rarely, if ever, drank with her classmates. She seemed highly motivated to do well academically so that she would be able to find a career that she not only enjoyed but one that also gave her some financial stability.
After much reflection, eventually she came to a decision that she wanted to be a lawyer. In order to realize this goal, however, she would first have to get four years of undergraduate education.
After Finishing High School Janice Gets Accepted Into A Renowned Undergraduate University as a Springboard For a Career as a Lawyer
After Janice finished high school, she applied to and was accepted into a distinguished program in economics. Her reasoning for this decision was that this subject would be good training for law school and wouldn’t be similar to the preponderance of law school applicants who choose political science as their undergraduate major or minor.
After graduating with high honors at the undergrad level, she applied to and was accepted at a prestigious law school at one of the Big 12 universities.
She enjoyed her legal studies but on occasion she was snowed under from all the work that law school demanded. Akin to the way she handled herself in her high school and undergraduate days, however, she made pals easily but very infrequently participated in social activities until the term was completed.
After Being Delighted With the Fact That She Had Done Extremely Well on Her Tests, Janice Wanted to Let Her Hair Down and Have Some Fun
Janice was the kind of person who worked in a diligent manner to finish what she started and then would take a couple of days off when she could. As it turns out, however, nearly all of the things she did between school sessions or during her summer vacations did not have much to do with drinking. Clearly, Janice was anything but a party-girl. Now that her finals for her second year in law school were over and thrilled with the fact that she had done a super job on her exams, because of this, she wanted to take a respite from school and have some fun.
Drinking at a Local Saloon Results in An Alcohol Overdose, Calling 911, and a Visit to An Alcohol Treatment Hospital
So Janice and several of her classmates went to a local watering hole where they had a few wine coolers. As the hours quickly passed, Janice persisted in drinking without having any concerns about examinations or class the next day. In truth, Janice revealed to her pals how much fun it was to whoop it up by drinking with her friends.
As the evening moved forward, Janice and her pals continued to drink. In actual fact, she was having such a splendid time that she didn’t want the night to come to an end. It was almost as if she was making up for lost time and making an attempt to cram a year’s worth of fun and laughter into a single evening. Such a “game plan,” it needs to be emphasized, hardly ever works. In fact, when Janice went to the restroom and threw up, her buddies started to get anxious about her safety.
About twenty minutes later when Janice started to slur her words, speak in a confused manner, and then become unconscious, nonetheless, her pals instantaneously knew that they needed to call the emergency number and ask for medical assistance because they thought that Janice was manifesting alcohol poisoning symptoms.
Once Janice was in the hospital, the lead emergency room physician substantiated what her friends had assumed, namely, that Janice had significantly more alcohol than her body could process and, as a result, she experienced an alcohol overdose.
After the medical team pumped her stomach until no gastric contents were visible, Janice was transported to the recovery room. After staying around three hours in recovery, Janice was then placed in one of the regular hospital rooms. Fortunately, the most precarious part of her hospitalization had passed and all of her vital signs returned to normal.
In response to Janice’s state of affairs, her pals kindheartedly called her Mother and Father. As a result, early the next day, her Mother and Father and her best friends went to the hospital to see how Janice was doing.
Janice Comes Close to Losing Her Life, is Happy to be Alive, and Promises to Never Again Drink in an Abusive and Irresponsible Manner
Janice was conscious of the fact that she had dodged a bullet and, as a result, was thankful to be alive. Her parents realized how hard she studied in graduate school and how little she let herself socialize with her classmates. Nonetheless, they also knew that Janice needed to avoid irresponsible drinking.
As a result, they recommended that in the future, whenever a drinking situation develops, that she always drink responsibly and in moderation. Janice was in agreement with this and gave her word to her friends and to her Mom and Dad that she would never again drink in an irresponsible and abusive manner. As stated by Janice, “I never pondered the fact that I would become one of the alcohol abuse and alcoholism statistics in the local newspaper. I now understand that excessive drinking is not for me. I proclaim that this will never happen again.”
Fortunately, Janice was not only “book smart” but she also displayed a lot of common sense. Stated differently, she quickly knew that she had made a mistake and made up her mind that she would never make the same error in judgment again. As a matter of fact, she now knew that she had involved herself in “binge drinking” and that even one instance of this form of abusive drinking can end in death.
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