A Saturday Evening Out With Pals From School at a Local College Disco Results In Irresponsible and Excessive Drinking and An Alcohol Overdose
Posted by admin - 22/08/09 at 02:08 amWhen Janice was in high school, she had secured a reputation as an individual who studied much of the time and who rarely, if ever, let her hair down by drinking with her friends. She seemed determined to “stand out” academically so that she would be able to go after a career that she not only enjoyed but one that also gave her some security from a financial perspective.
After much deliberation, in time she decided that she wanted to be an attorney. In order to do this, nonetheless, she would first have to attend four years of undergraduate education.
After Finishing High School Janice Gets Accepted Into A Prestigious Undergraduate University as a Foundation For a Career as an Attorney
After Janice graduated from high school, she applied to and was accepted into an outstanding program in religion. Her reasoning for this decision was that this subject matter would be a good springboard for law school and wouldn’t be indistinguishable from the bulk of law school applicants who select political science as their undergraduate major.
After graduating with a 3.7 GPA at the undergraduate level, she applied to and was accepted at an esteemed law school at one of the Ivy League universities.
She liked her legal studies but every now and then she was flooded with all the work that had to be done at law school. Not unlike her high school and undergraduate days, nevertheless, she made friends effortlessly but barely took part in social activities until the school period had been concluded.
After Feeling Happy That She Had Done Very Well on Her Finals, Janice Wanted to Let Her Hair Down and Do Something Besides Going to College For a Change
Janice was the type of individual who worked rigorously to reach her objective and then would take a break when she could. As it turns out, however, nearly all of the things she did between terms or during summer breaks did not involve drinking. Obviously, Janice was anything but a party-girl. Now that her finals for her second year in law school were over and being delighted with the fact that she had done a super job on her exams, however, she wanted to take a break and do some celebrating.
Drinking at a Local Tavern Results in Alcohol Poisoning Symptoms, Calling 911, The Emergency Services Number, and a Visit to An Alcohol Rehab Clinic
So Janice and a few of her friends from college went to a local saloon where they had a few beers. As the hours went by, Janice persisted in drinking without having to worry about tests or class the next day. In truth, Janice revealed to her pals how nice it was to whoop it up and drink with classmates from her apartment.
As the evening moved forward, Janice and her friends continued to drink. In actual fact, she was having such a terrific 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 attempting to force a year’s worth of fun and excitement into a single evening. Such a “game plan,” it needs to be emphasized, hardly ever works. In actual fact, when Janice went to the powder room and vomited, her classmates started to get worried about her safety.
About ten minutes later when Janice started to speak in a confused manner, slur her words, and then become unconscious, in spite of this, her friends instantly realized that they needed to call 911 and ask for medical assistance because they believed that Janice was manifesting alcohol poisoning symptoms.
Once Janice was in the alcohol treatment hospital, the lead healthcare practitioner corroborated what her classmates had hypothesized, to be precise, that Janice ingested significantly more alcohol than her body could process and, consequently, she suffered from an alcohol overdose
After the medical team pumped her stomach until no gastric contents were evident, Janice was placed in the recovery room. After staying roughly four hours in recovery, Janice was then wheeled to one of the regular hospital rooms. Fortunately, the most life-threatening 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 pals attentively telephoned her Mother and Father. As a consequence, early the next morning, her Mom and Dad and her best friends went to the hospital to visit Janice and check on her medical progress.
Janice Narrowly Escapes Death, is Grateful to be Alive, and Promises to Never Again Drink in an Excessive and Irresponsible Manner
Janice was attentive to the fact that she came close to dying and, as a result, was thankful to be alive. Her Mom and Dad were aware how relentlessly she worked at school and how little she let herself have any fun. Nevertheless, they also were aware that Janice needed to steer clear of irresponsible drinking.
As a consequence, they suggested that down the road, whenever a drinking occasion arises, that she always drink responsibly and in moderation. Janice agreed and promised her Mom and Dad and her friends that she would never again drink in an excessive and abusive manner. In her own words, “I never had a clue that I would become one of the alcohol abuse and alcoholism statistics in the local newspaper. I now know that irresponsible and hazardous drinking is not for me. I assert that this will never happen again.”
Fortunately, Janice was not only “book smart” but she also had a lot of common sense. Stated more explicitly, she instantaneously realized that she had made an error and decided that she would never make the same mistake 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 type of alcohol abuse can end in a loss of life.
