Add to your...
When Janice was in high school, she had obtained a reputation as a person who studied much of the time and who rarely, if ever, ”got down” and drank with her buddies. She seemed almost obsessed about excelling academically so that she would be able to pursue a career that she not only liked but one that also gave her a degree of monetary stability.
After much thought, in the end she made up her mind that she wanted to be a lawyer. In order to reach this goal, however, she would first have to attend four years of undergraduate education.
After Finishing High School Janice Gets Accepted Into A Well-Known Undergrad University as a Springboard For a Career as a Trial Lawyer
After Janice finished high school, she applied to and was accepted into a highly rated program in economics. Her rationale for this decision was that this academic discipline would be a good foundation for law school and wouldn’t be comparable to the preponderance of law school applicants who select political science as their undergraduate major.
After graduating with a 3.95 GPA 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 sometimes she was overwhelmed with all the work that had to be accomplished at law school. Reminiscent to the way she handled herself in her high school and undergraduate days, nonetheless, she made buddies quite easily but barely took part in social functions until the semester was completed.
After Feeling Happy That She Had Done Very Well on Her Exams, Janice Felt Like Celebrating
Janice was the kind of person who worked diligently to reach her goal and then would take a break when she could. As it turns out, however, virtually all of the things she did between terms or during her summer vacations did not have much of anything to do with drinking. Obviously, Janice was anything but a party-girl. Now that her final examinations for her second year in law school were completed and being jubilant with the fact that she had done a super job on her exams, nevertheless, she wanted to take a respite from school and have some fun.
Drinking at a Local Pub Results in An Alcohol Overdose, Calling 911, The Emergency Number, and a Trip to An Alcohol Treatment Hospital
So Janice and a few of her friends went to a local nightclub where they had a few wine coolers. As the hours passed, Janice continued to drink without having any concerns about exams or class the next day. In fact, Janice told her buddies how overjoyed she was to have fun drinking with her law school friends.
As the evening advanced, Janice and her pals continued to drink. In point of fact, she was having such a marvelous 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 making an effort to condense a year’s worth of fun into a single evening. Such a “game plan,” however, rarely works. In truth, when Janice went to the lady’s room and vomited, her pals started to get anxious about her safety.
A few minutes later when Janice started to slur her words, speak in a confused manner, and then fall unconscious, nevertheless, her classmates instantly knew that they needed to call 911, the emergency services number, and ask for emergency assistance because they believed that Janice was displaying alcohol poisoning symptoms.
Once Janice was in the drug and alcohol rehab hospital, the lead emergency room doctor verified what her pals had hypothesized, that is to say, that Janice ingested significantly more alcohol than her body could handle and, consequently, she suffered from an alcohol overdose.
After the medical team pumped her stomach until no gastric contents were visible, Janice was transferred to the recovery room. After staying about four hours in recovery, Janice was then wheeled to one of the regular hospital rooms. Fortunately, the most serious part of her hospitalization was over and all of her vital signs returned to normal.
In response to Janice’s situation, her friends caringly phoned her Mom and Dad. Consequently, early the next morning, her Mom and Dad and her favorite pals went to the hospital to visit Janice and check on her medical progress.
Janice Comes an Inch From Losing Her Life, is Happy to be Alive, and Promises to Never Again Drink in an Excessive and Hazardous Manner
Janice was very aware that she had dodged a bullet and, as a result, was happy to be alive. Her Mother and Father knew how rigorously she worked in graduate school and how little she let herself socialize with her buddies. Nevertheless, they also were aware that Janice needed to avoid excessive drinking.
As a result, they recommended that down the road, whenever a drinking occasion presents itself, that she always drink responsibly. Janice was in agreement with this and gave her word to her friends and to her Mom and Dad that she would never again drink in an abusive and excessive manner. In her own words, “I never pondered the fact that I would become one of the alcohol abuse and alcoholism statistics in the local university newspaper. I now know that excessive and abusive drinking is not for me. I pledge that this will never happen again.”
Fortunately, Janice was not only “school smart” but she also had a lot of common sense. Stated differently, she immediately grasped the fact that she had made a mistake and made up her mind that she would never make the same mistake again. In truth, she now knew that she had involved herself in “binge drinking” and that even one instance of this type of alcohol abuse can end in death.
No related posts.