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Jeffrey was a high school freshman who frequently seemed to be living on the edge. Jeffrey had a risk taking personality and as a rule wanted to do what his older brothers were doing to have fun. The main holdup with this was that all three of his brothers were at least 21 years old and were thusly able from a legal point of view to drive a truck or car and to consume alcohol.
Jeffrey, conversely, had a rough time comprehending the fact that as a fifteen-year-old adolescent he should not be drinking. In fact, however, Jeffrey commonly drank with his guy friends after school, largely on the weekends.
One weekend, Jeffrey decided to drive around with some of his older pals. One of his cronies was old enough to buy alcohol. After buying some wine coolers, beer, and wine, Jeffrey and all of his friends went to a public park and drank for about two or three hours.
Jeffrey Experiences Alcohol Poisoning Symptoms
After drinking something like ten wine coolers, Jeffrey started to feel woozy and then vomited. When he lost consciousness on the baseball field, one of his friends called 911 for immediate medical assistance. It was fortunate that the call for emergency help was made because when his friends went to the hospital to see Jeffrey, they found out that Jeffrey had been going through alcohol poisoning symptoms. More to the point, Jeffrey had experienced a case of alcohol poisoning.
When Your Buddies Drink Too Much
Jeffrey had learned that drinking abusively can lead to an alcohol overdose but he never thought that this could ever affect him. After all, some of his friends time after time professed that they could drink twenty four or more cans of beer at one sitting without experiencing any significant setbacks.
Based on this, Jeffrey was truthfully shocked to gather that he had overdosed on alcohol because he “only” had more or less ten alcoholic beverages. When he told this to the attending doctor at the hospital, nevertheless, the healthcare practitioner notified Jeffrey that drinking ten alcoholic beverages over a two or three hour time frame could in fact be significantly more alcohol than can be metabolized by the body. The physicain further emphasized how excessive alcohol can cause the brain to shut down a person’s breathing and that when this happens, a person can die.
The First Signal of Excessive Drinking
This was the first warning to Jeffrey that he was drinking in a dangerous way and that there is a price tag for such actions. The doctor told Jeffrey that he was a lucky individual because he almost perished from an alcohol overdose the previous night.
The doctor also conversed with Jeffrey’s parents and suggested that they get alcohol therapy for Jeffrey. His parents were thrilled that Jeffrey was all right and notified the healthcare practitioner that they would look into getting Jeffrey alcohol counseling.
While talking to his parents, Jeffrey told them that there must be a special reason why he did not die and that he felt grateful that he was still alive. He also told his parents that the peculiar part about the entire drinking occurrence was that he had learned about alcohol poisoning the previous week in health class at school.
When Paying Attention in Class Can Make a Difference
At the time, what his health instructor, Mr. Franklin, was articulating didn’t seem to make too much sense to Jeffrey. Now that he almost died, on the other hand, he felt that he should have listened more conscientiously in health class and applied what he had learned to his life.
Jeffrey told his parents that he couldn’t wait to go to Mr. Franklin’s classroom and make an apology to Mr. Franklin for not displaying more attention to a topic that was as important as learning about alcohol abuse and how to stay away from an alcohol overdose.
His parents smiled at Jeffrey and said that they were delighted with the way he was being accountable for his negative drinking behavior. All he had to do now was to let this life threatening experience impact his life in a productive manner so that he would never again suffer through a case of alcohol poisoning.
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