When Janice was in high school, she had established a reputation as a person who hit the books real hard and who rarely, if ever, had fun drinking with her friends. She seemed almost obsessed about doing well academically so that she would be able to pursue a career that she not only liked but one that also gave her some monetary stability.
After much deliberation, in time she decided that she wanted to be a trial lawyer. In order to do this, however, she would first have to complete four years of undergrad education.
After Completing High School Janice Gets Accepted Into A Famous Undergraduate University as Preparation For a Career as a Trial Lawyer
After Janice completed high school, she applied to and was accepted into a prestigious program in linguistics. Her analysis of her options regarding this decision was based on the fact that this academic discipline would be good preparation for law school and wouldn’t be comparable to the preponderance of law school applicants who elect to choose political science as their undergraduate major.
After graduating with a 3.75 GPA at the undergrad level, she applied to and was accepted at an outstanding law school at one of the Big Ten universities.
She was energized by her legal studies but occasionally she was inundated with all the work that law school entailed. Akin to the way she handled herself in her high school and undergraduate days, nonetheless, she made pals painlessly but scarcely took part in social functions until the quarter was completed.
After Being Elated With the Fact That She Had Done Very Well on Her Finals, Janice Wanted to Let Her Hair Down and Do Something Besides Studying For a Change
Janice was the type of individual who worked vigorously to accomplish her goal and then would take a few days off when she could. As is the case, nevertheless, a large number of the things she did between terms or during her summer vacations were unrelated to drinking. It almost goes without saying that Janice was anything but a party-person. Now that her finals for her second year in law school were finished and thrilled with the fact that she had done extremely well on her exams, because of this, she wanted to take a respite from school and have some fun.
Drinking at a Local Watering Hole Results in Alcohol Poisoning Symptoms, Calling The Emergency Number, and a Trip to The Rehab Hospital
So Janice and several of her buddies went to a local club where they had a few shots. As the hours quickly passed, Janice persisted in drinking without having a care in the world about tests or term papers the following day. In fact, Janice told her buddies how much fun it was to party with her law school friends.
As the evening advanced, Janice and her classmates continued to drink. Indeed, she was having such a marvelous time that she didn’t want the night to end. It was almost as if she was making up for lost time and attempting to condense a year’s worth of enjoyment and fun into a single evening. Such a “game plan,” in most cases, does not work. In truth, when Janice went to the restroom and threw up, her pals started to get anxious about her wellbeing.
Around fifteen minutes later when Janice started to slur her words, speak in a confused manner, and then pass out, nevertheless, her friends immediately knew that they needed to call 911, the emergency number, and ask for medical assistance because they suspected that Janice was displaying alcohol poisoning symptoms.
Once Janice was in the alcohol treatment hospital, the lead healthcare practitioner substantiated what her pals had speculated, to be exact, that Janice consumed significantly more alcohol than her body could process and, as a consequence, she suffered from an alcohol overdose.
After the medical team pumped her stomach until no gastric contents were visible, Janice was moved to the recovery room. After staying about three hours in recovery, Janice was then moved to one of the regular hospital rooms. Fortunately, the most precarious part of her hospitalization was over and all of her vital signs were normal once again.
In response to Janice’s medical situation, her buddies thoughtfully called her parents. As a consequence, early the next day, her Mother and Father and her best friends went to the hospital to see how Janice was doing.
Janice Dodges a Bullet, is Grateful to be Alive, and Promises to Never Again Drink in an Abusive and Irresponsible Manner
Janice was conscious of the fact that she had narrowly escaped death and, as a consequence, was grateful to be alive. At the same time, nonetheless, she was somewhat depressed knowing that she had almost died the previous night. Her Mother and Father realized how intensely she studied at the university and how little she let herself socialize with her pals. Nevertheless, they also realized that Janice needed to steer clear of hazardous drinking.
As a consequence, they recommended that in the future, whenever a drinking opportunity develops, that she always drink in moderation and responsibly. Janice was fine with this and gave her word to her friends and to her parents that she would never again drink in an excessive and irresponsible manner. As stated by Janice, “I never thought that I would become one of the alcohol abuse and alcoholism statistics in the local university newspaper. I now grasp the fact that irresponsible and excessive drinking is not for me. I assert that this will never happen again.”
Fortunately, Janice was not only “school smart” but she also possessed common sense. In other words, she immediately knew that she had made an error in judgment and made up her mind that she would never make the same error again. In point of fact, she now knew that she had involved herself in "binge drinking" and that even one instance of this form of alcohol abuse can end in death.
