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A Ninth Grade Male Student Drinks Excessively With His Buddies, Suffers From An Alcohol Overdose, And Learns That Learning Something In Class Can Change Your Life
Andy was a high school ninth grader who usually seemed to be living on the edge. Andy had an adventurous personality and frequently wanted to do what his older brothers were doing for fun. The main holdup with this was that all three of his brothers were at least 21 years old and were therefore legally able to operate a truck or car and to drink alcohol.
Andy, however, had a tough time grasping the fact that as a fifteen-year-old person he should not be drinking alcoholic beverages. In fact, however, Andy frequently drank with his high school buddies after school, largely on the weekends.
One weekend, Andy decided to drive around with some of his older friends. One of his cronies was old enough to purchase alcohol. After purchasing some beer, wine coolers, and wine, Andy and all of the guys went to a recreational area and drank for something like two or three hours.
After drinking around five glasses of wine, Andy started to feel woozy and then vomited. When he became unconscious on the baseball field, one of his friends called 911 for immediate assistance. It was fortunate that the call for emergency assistance was made because when his buddies went to the hospital to see Andy, they were informed that Andy had been showing evidence of alcohol poisoning symptoms. In short, Andy had suffered through an alcohol overdose.
After receiving alcohol poisoning treatment, Andy was quite taken aback to ascertain that he had overdosed on alcohol because he "only" had around five or ten drinks. When he articulated this to the attending healthcare practitioner at the hospital, however, the healthcare professional told Andy that drinking five or ten cans of beer over a two or three hour time frame could certainly be substantially more alcohol than can be processed by the body. The healthcare practitioner further verbalized how too much alcohol can cause the brain to shut down an individual's respiratory system and that when this takes place, an individual can perish.
This was the first sign to Andy that he was drinking in a hazardous way and that there are costs for such behavior. The healthcare professional told Andy that he was a lucky young man because he almost perished from alcohol poisoning the night before.
The physician also spoke to Andy's parents and suggested that they get alcohol therapy for Andy. His parents were relieved that Andy was safe and sound and told the doctor that they would get Andy alcohol rehabilitation.
While talking to his parents, Andy told them that there must be a solid reason why he did not expire and that he felt a sense of thankfulness that he was still alive. He also notified his parents that the strangest part about the entire drinking episode was that he had learned about alcohol poisoning the last six week grading period at school in Mr. Johnson's health class.
At the time, what his health teacher, Mr. Johnson, was saying didn't seem to make a lot of sense to Andy. Since he almost died, in spite of this, he felt that he should have listened more closely in class and applied what he had learned to his daily living.
Andy informed his parents that he couldn't wait to go to school and apologize to Mr. Johnson for not showing more attention to a topic that was as important as learning about alcohol poisoning.
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