A Night Out With College Buddies at a Local College Saloon Results In Excessive Drinking and Alcohol Poisoning Symptoms
Monday, July 6th, 2009When Janice was in high school, she had secured a reputation as a studious person who rarely, if ever, drank with her pals. She seemed single-minded about “shining” academically so that she would be able to pursue a career that she not only enjoyed but one that also gave her some security from a financial standpoint.
After much thought, in the end she decided that she wanted to be an attorney. In order to pull this off, nevertheless, she would first have to attend four years of undergrad education.
After Finishing High School Janice Gets Accepted Into A Nationally Ranked Undergrad University as a Springboard For a Career as an Attorney
After Janice graduated from high school, she applied to and was accepted into a highly rated program in economics. Her rationale underlying this decision was that this area of study would be a good springboard for law school and wouldn’t be indistinguishable from the majority of law school applicants who choose political science as their undergraduate major or minor.
After graduating with a 3.9 GPA at the undergrad level, she applied to and was accepted at a well known law school at one of the Big Ten universities.
She was energized by her legal studies but occasionally she was weighed down from all the work that was necessary at law school. In much the same way as she had done in her high school and undergraduate days, however, she made pals without much effort but hardly ever participated in social functions until the term was over.
After Thrilled with the Fact That She Had Done a Super Job on Her Finals, Janice Wanted to Let Her Hair Down and Do Something Besides Studying For a Change
Janice was the kind of individual who worked relentlessly to finish what she was doing and then would take a break when she could. It just so happens, however, that a good number of the things she did between school sessions or during her summer vacations did not have anything to do with drinking. It almost goes without saying that Janice was anything but a partygoer. Now that her finals for her second year in law school were over and feeling proud of the fact that she had done very well on her finals, because of this, she wanted to let her hair down and do something besides studying for a change.
Drinking at a Local Bar and Grill Leads to An Alcohol Overdose, Calling 911, and An Ambulance Ride to An Alcohol Rehab Facility
So Janice and a few of her classmates went to a local watering hole where they started to have a few drinks. As the hours passed, Janice persisted in drinking without having any concerns about research projects or tests the following day. In truth, Janice stated to her pals how delighted she was to whoop it up and drink with classmates from her apartment.
As the evening proceeded, Janice and her pals continued to drink. In fact, she was having such a fantastic 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 effort to compress a year’s worth of fun into a single evening. Such a “game plan,” however, rarely works. In fact, when Janice went to the lady’s room and vomited, her friends started to feel apprehensive about her health.
Around ten minutes later when Janice started to speak in a confused manner, slur her words, and then pass out, nonetheless, her buddies without delay realized that they needed to call 911, the emergency services number, and ask for emergency assistance because they thought that Janice was manifesting alcohol poisoning symptoms.
Once Janice was in the alcohol rehab hospital, the presiding emergency room doctor corroborated what her buddies had speculated, to be precise, that Janice consumed far more alcohol than her body could handle and, consequently, she experienced an alcohol overdose
After the emergency room medical staff pumped her stomach until no gastric contents were visible, Janice was relocated to the recovery room. After staying around five hours in recovery, Janice was then relocated to one of the regular hospital rooms. Fortunately, the most dangerous part of her hospitalization had passed and all of her vital signs were once again in the normal range.
In response to Janice’s medical situation, her classmates attentively called her parents. As a consequence, early the next day, her parents and her best buddies went to the hospital to see how Janice was doing.
Janice Dodges a Bullet, is Thankful to be Alive, and Promises to Never Again Drink in an Excessive and Abusive Manner
Janice was very aware that she had dodged a bullet and, as a consequence, was thankful to be alive. Her Mother and Father knew how rigorously she studied at college and how little she permitted herself to socialize with her pals. Nonetheless, they also knew that Janice needed to avoid abusive drinking.
As a consequence, they suggested that in the future, whenever a drinking opportunity unfolds, that she always drink in moderation. Janice was fine with this and gave her word to her parents and to her friends that she would never again drink in an excessive manner. In her own words, “I never thought that I would become one of the alcohol abuse and alcoholism statistics in the local city newspaper. I now know that excessive drinking is not for me. This will never happen again.”
Fortunately, Janice was not only “book smart” but she also had common sense. Stated more precisely, she quickly knew that she had made an error and made up her mind that she would never make the same error in judgment again. In fact, she now realized that she had involved herself in “binge drinking” and that even one instance of this type of excessive drinking can end in a fatality.
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