When Janice was in high school, she had acquired a reputation as a person who studied a lot and who rarely, if ever, ”got down” and drank with her buddies. She seemed highly motivated to do well academically so that she would be able to go after a career that she not only liked but one that also gave her some financial stability.
After much thought, finally she came to a decision that she wanted to be an attorney. In order to achieve this goal, however, she would first have to complete four years of undergraduate education.
After Graduating From High School Janice Gets Accepted Into A Nationally Ranked Undergraduate University as a Foundation For a Career as a Trial Lawyer
After Janice completed high school, she applied to and was accepted into a highly rated program in English. Her justification for this decision was that this subject would be a good foundation 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 3.7 GPA at the undergrad level, she applied to and was accepted at a famous law school at one of the Big East universities.
She enjoyed her legal studies but every once in a while she was beleaguered about all the work that had to be undertaken at law school. In much the same way as she had done in her high school and undergraduate days, however, she made buddies easily but barely participated in social functions until the term had ended.
After Being Delighted With the Fact That She Had Done Extremely Well on Her Finals, Janice Wanted to Take a Break and do Some Celebrating
Janice was the kind of individual who worked in a diligent manner to complete what she was doing and then would take a couple of days off when she could. As is the case, however, nearly all of the things she did between school sessions or during her summer vacations did not have much to do with drinking. Clearly, Janice was anything but a party-person. Now that her finals for her second year in law school were over and pleased that she had done very well on her exams, nevertheless, she wanted to let her hair down and do something besides going to college for a change.
Drinking at a Local Club Leads to Alcohol Poisoning Symptoms, Calling 911, The Emergency Services Number, and a Trip to An Alcohol Treatment Clinic
So Janice and some of her friends from the university went to a local nightclub where they had a few drinks. As the hours flew by, Janice persisted in drinking without having to worry about tests or term papers the following day. In actual fact, Janice told her friends how overjoyed she was to ”get down” and drink with her law school pals.
As the evening went by, Janice and her pals continued to drink. In truth, she was having such a magnificent 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 cram a year’s worth of laughter and fun into a single evening. Such a “game plan,” it needs to be emphasized, does not often work. In truth, when Janice went to the lady’s room and vomited, her buddies started to get anxious about her safety.
Around ten minutes later when Janice started to talk in a confused manner, slur her speech, and then become unconscious, however, her buddies without delay realized that they needed to call 911 and ask for medical assistance because they thought that Janice was manifesting alcohol poisoning symptoms.
Once Janice was in the hospital, the head emergency room doctor validated what her friends had assumed, to be exact, that Janice drank substantially more alcohol than her body could handle and, as a consequence, she suffered from an alcohol overdose
After the medical team pumped her stomach until no gastric contents were identifiable, Janice was relocated to the recovery room. After staying about six hours in recovery, Janice was then moved to one of the regular hospital rooms. Fortunately, the worst had passed and all of her vital signs were normal once again.
In response to Janice’s medical circumstances, her friends attentively phoned her Mother and Father. As a result, early the next day, her parents and her best buddies went to the hospital to visit Janice.
Janice Comes an Inch From Losing Her Life, is Grateful to be Alive, and Promises to Never Again Drink in a Hazardous Manner
Janice was very aware that she had narrowly escaped death and, consequently, was gratified to be alive. Her Mom and Dad were aware how intensely she worked at college and how little she let herself experience a social life. Nonetheless, they also were aware that Janice needed to avoid irresponsible drinking.
As a result, they suggested that down the road, whenever a drinking occasion develops, that she always drink responsibly. Janice was of the same opinion and gave her word to her friends and to her Mom and Dad that she would never again drink in an abusive and irresponsible manner. In her 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 drinking is not for me. This will never happen again.”
Fortunately, Janice was not only “book smart” but she also had common sense. In other words, she rapidly grasped the fact that she had made an error and decided that she would never make the same mistake again. In fact, she now understood that she had involved herself in “binge drinking” and that even one instance of this type of abusive drinking can end in death.
