A High School Student Almost Dies From Alcohol Poisoning
Jeffrey was a ninth grader who frequently seemed to be living on the edge. Jeffrey had a risk taking personality and typically wanted to do what his older brothers were doing. The key holdup with this was that all three of his brothers were at least 21 years old and were for than reason able from a legal standpoint to operate a car or truck and to drink alcohol.
Jeffrey, conversely, had a hard time grasping the fact that as a fifteen-year-old young man he should not be drinking alcoholic beverages. In fact, however, Jeffrey frequently drank with his cronies after school, primarily on the weekends.
One weekend, Jeffrey was invited to drive around with some of his older guy friends. One of his friends was old enough to buy alcohol. After buying some wine, beer, and wine coolers, Jeffrey and all of his pals went to a park and drank for approximately two or three hours.
A Young Man Passes Out
After drinking roughly ten bottles of beer, Jeffrey started to feel queasy and then threw up. When he passed out on the tennis court, one of his friends called 911 for help. It was fortunate that the call for medical help was made because when his guy friends went to the hospital to see Jeffrey, they were notified that Jeffrey had been suffering from alcohol poisoning symptoms. Simply put, Jeffrey had experienced a case of alcohol poisoning.
When Your Friends Drink Excessively
Jeffrey had learned that drinking in a hazardous manner can result in alcohol poisoning but he never thought that this would happen to him. After all, some of his buddies time after time argued that they could drink an entire case of beer in one day without experiencing any major problems.
Based on this, Jeffrey was frankly amazed to discover that he had overdosed on alcohol because he “only” had more or less ten alcoholic beverages. When he stated this to the attending doctor at the hospital, conversely, the healthcare practitioner told Jeffrey that drinking ten bottles of beer over a two or three hour time frame could certainly be quite a bit more alcohol than can be processed by the body. The healthcare practitioner further expressed how extreme amounts of alcohol can cause the brain to shut down a person’s respiratory system and that when this comes about, a person can die.
The First Warning of Abusive Drinking
This was the first indication to Jeffrey that he was drinking in a risky way and that there are consequences for such deeds. The healthcare practitioner told Jeffrey that he was a lucky young man because he almost died from an alcohol overdose the previous night.
The healthcare practitioner also had a word with Jeffrey’s parents and suggested that they get alcohol counseling for Jeffrey. His parents were jubilant that Jeffrey was safe and told the healthcare professional that they would get Jeffrey alcohol rehabilitation.
While talking to his parents, Jeffrey informed them that there must be a good reason why he did not die and that he felt grateful that he was still alive. He also notified his parents that the odd part about the entire drinking episode was that he had learned about alcohol poisoning the past week in health class.
When Learning Something in Class Can Make a Difference
At the time, what his health teacher, Mr. Franklin, was teaching didn’t seem to make a lot of sense to Jeffrey. Since he almost died, however, he felt that he should have listened more intently in health class and applied what he had learned to his daily living.
Jeffrey informed his parents that he couldn’t wait to go back to Mr. Franklin’s classroom and make an apology to Mr. Franklin for not demonstrating more attention to something that was as significant as learning about alcohol abuse and how to steer clear of an alcohol overdose.
His parents smiled at Jeffrey and said that they were thrilled with the way he was accepting responsibility for his destructive drinking activities. All he had to do now was to let this life threatening experience affect his life in a beneficial manner so that he would never again suffer through an alcohol overdose.
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