When Janice was in high school, she had obtained a reputation as a person who hit the books real hard and who rarely, if ever, ”got down” and drank with her peers. She seemed nearly obsessed about excelling academically so that she would be able to go after a career that she not only liked but one that also gave her a degree of monetary stability.
After much consideration, in time she made up her mind that she wanted to be an attorney. In order to pull this off, nonetheless, she would first have to complete four years of undergraduate education.
After Finishing High School Janice Gets Accepted Into A Greatly Admired Undergraduate University as a Springboard For a Career as an Attorney
After Janice graduated from high school, she applied to and was accepted into a celebrated program in philosophy. Her reasoning for this decision was that this subject would be good preparation for law school and wouldn’t be indistinguishable from the majority of law school applicants who select political science as their undergraduate major.
After graduating with high honors at the undergraduate level, she applied to and was accepted at a renowned law school at one of the Big 12 universities.
She enjoyed her legal studies but every once in a while she was snowed under from all the work that had to be undertaken at law school. Akin to the way she handled herself in her high school and undergraduate days, however, she made friends easily but very infrequently got involved in social activities until the semester was finished.
After Feeling Overjoyed That She Had Done a Super Job on Her Tests, Janice Felt Like Celebrating
Janice was the kind of individual who worked studiously to reach her objective and then would take a breather when she could. It just so happens, nevertheless, that most of the things she did between terms or during summer breaks were not associated with drinking. Needless to say, Janice was anything but a party-girl. Now that her final exams for her second year in law school were completed and pleased that she had done a super job on her finals, nonetheless, she wanted to let her hair down and do something besides studying for a change.
Drinking at a Local Bar and Grill Results in Symptoms of Alcohol Poisoning, Calling 911, The Emergency Services Number, and a Visit to An Alcohol Rehab Clinic
So Janice and several of her friends from school went to a local pub where they had a few mixed drinks. As the hours passed, Janice persisted in drinking without having to worry about exams or class the next day. In fact, Janice mentioned to her buddies how excited she was to whoop it up and drink with her law school buddies.
As the evening moved forward, 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 making an effort to pack a year’s worth of merriment into a single evening. Such a “game plan,” however, does not often work. In point of fact, when Janice went to the lady’s room and vomited, her friends started to feel apprehensive about her health.
Around twenty minutes later when Janice started to slur her words, speak in a confused manner, and then become unconscious, nonetheless, her buddies instantaneously realized that they needed to call 911, the emergency number, and ask for medical assistance because they thought that Janice was displaying alcohol poisoning symptoms.
Once Janice was in the drug and alcohol rehab hospital, the presiding healthcare practitioner validated what her pals had thought, to be exact, that Janice ingested substantially more alcohol than her body could process and, as a result, she experienced an alcohol overdose
After the emergency room medical staff pumped her stomach until no gastric contents were observable, Janice was wheeled to the recovery room. After staying roughly five hours in recovery, Janice was then transported to one of the regular hospital rooms. Fortunately, the worst part of her hospitalization had passed and all of her vital signs returned to normal.
In response to Janice’s medical predicament, her buddies considerately called her Mother and Father. As a consequence, early the next morning, her parents and her best friends went to the hospital to visit Janice and check on her medical progress.
Janice Comes an Inch From Losing Her Life, is Pleased to be Alive, and Promises to Never Again Drink in an Abusive Manner
Janice was attentive to the fact that she had narrowly escaped death and, consequently, was grateful to be alive. Her Mom and Dad knew how hard she worked in graduate school and how little she permitted herself to socialize with her classmates. Nonetheless, they also realized that Janice needed to avoid excessive drinking.
Consequently, they suggested that down the road, whenever a drinking situation develops, that she always drink responsibly and in moderation. Janice agreed and assured her friends and her Mother and Father that she would never again drink in an abusive and excessive manner. In Janice’s own words, “I never had an inkling that I would become one of the alcohol abuse and alcoholism statistics in the local town newspaper. I now understand that irresponsible and excessive drinking is not for me. I declare that this will never happen again.”
Fortunately, Janice was not only “school smart” but she also possessed common sense. That is, she rapidly realized that she had made an error in judgment and made up her mind that she would never make the same mistake again. Indeed, 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 a fatality.