A Thursday Night Out With Friends From School at a Local Bar and Grill Leads To Hazardous and Abusive Drinking and Symptoms of an Alcohol Overdose
When Janice was in high school, she had established a reputation as a person who studied much of the time and who rarely, if ever, let her hair down by drinking with her classmates. She seemed driven to “stand out” academically so that she would be able to secure a career that she not only liked but one that also gave her some security from a financial point of view.
After much thought, in time she came to a decision that she wanted to be a trial lawyer. In order to achieve this goal, nonetheless, she would first have to complete four years of undergrad education.
After Completing High School Janice Gets Accepted Into A Greatly Admired Undergrad University as Preparation For a Career as an Attorney
After Janice completed high school, she applied to and was accepted into a famous program in economics. Her logic for this decision was that this area of study would be good preparation for law school and wouldn’t be comparable to the majority of law school applicants who major in political science at the undergraduate level.
After graduating with a 3.75 GPA at the undergrad level, she applied to and was accepted at an esteemed law school at one of the Big East universities.
She was energized by her legal studies but occasionally she was flooded with all the work that had to be undertaken at law school. Reminiscent to the way she handled herself in her high school and undergraduate days, nevertheless, she made buddies quite easily but very infrequently got involved in social activities until the semester had ended.
After Being Elated With the Fact That She Had Done a Super Job on Her Exams, Janice Wanted to Let Her Hair Down and Do Something Besides School Work For a Change
Janice was the kind of individual who worked vigorously to complete what she was doing and then would take a couple of days off when she could. As is the case, nonetheless, virtually all of the things she did between terms or during her summer vacations did not involve drinking. Evidently, Janice was anything but a partygoer. Now that her finals for her second year in law school were finished and feeling proud of the fact that she had done extremely well on her exams, nonetheless, she wanted to let her hair down and do something besides school work for a change.
Drinking at a Local Watering Hole Leads to Symptoms of Alcohol Poisoning, Calling The Emergency Number, and a Visit to An Alcohol Rehab Facility
So Janice and some of her classmates went to a local tavern where they had a few shots. As the hours went by, Janice persisted in drinking without having a care in the world about homework the next day. Indeed, Janice told her friends how thrilled she was to ”get down” and drink with her friends.
As the evening went by, Janice and her buddies continued to drink. Indeed, she was having such a magnificent time that she didn’t want the night to come to an end. It was almost like she was making up for lost time and trying to pack a year’s worth of fun and enjoyment into a single evening. Such a “game plan,” it needs to be stressed, seldom works. As a matter of fact, when Janice went to the lady’s room and threw up, her pals started to feel uneasy about her health.
Around thirty minutes later when Janice started to talk in a confused manner, slur her speech, and then fall unconscious, in spite of this, her friends instantly knew that they needed to call the emergency number and ask for medical assistance because they believed that Janice was exhibiting alcohol poisoning symptoms.
Once Janice was in the hospital, the presiding emergency room doctor validated what her pals had thought, to be precise, that Janice drank substantially more alcohol than her body could metabolize and, as a result, she suffered from an alcohol overdose.
After the medical team pumped her stomach until no gastric contents were visible, Janice was placed in the recovery room. After staying about two hours in recovery, Janice was then wheeled to one of the regular hospital rooms. Fortunately, the most precarious part of her hospitalization was over and all of her vital signs were back to normal.
In response to Janice’s situation, her pals attentively phoned her Mother and Father. As a result, early the next morning, her Mother and Father and her best buddies went to the hospital to visit Janice and look into her medical condition.
Janice Comes an Inch From Losing Her Life, is Grateful to be Alive, and Promises to Never Again Drink in an Irresponsible and Excessive Manner
Janice was conscious of the fact that she came close to dying and, as a consequence, was thankful to be alive. Her Mother and Father knew how relentlessly she worked in graduate school and how little she permitted herself to socialize with her classmates. Nevertheless, they also knew that Janice needed to avoid abusive drinking.
As a consequence, they recommended that down the road, whenever a drinking occasion presents itself, that she always drink in moderation. Janice was of the same opinion and promised her parents and her friends that she would never again drink in an irresponsible and excessive manner. In Janice’s own words, “I never had a clue that I would become one of the alcohol abuse and alcoholism statistics in the local city newspaper. I now grasp the fact that excessive and hazardous drinking is not for me. I proclaim that this will never happen again.”
Fortunately, Janice was not only “school smart” but she also possessed common sense. Stated more explicitly, she instantaneously knew that she had made a mistake and made up her mind that she would never make the same error in judgment again. If truth be told, she now grasped the fact that she had involved herself in “binge drinking” and that even one instance of this kind of abusive drinking can end in death.