Posted on 05/07/2008 11:54:17 AM PDT by KJC1
A Rohnert Park teenager nearly died of an alcohol overdose at a weekend party after she filled an empty 20-ounce Gatorade bottle with vodka and drank it straight before wandering off to a nearby park, friends said Tuesday.
The girl's blood-alcohol content was 0.578, seven times the level for drunken driving, when she was rushed by ambulance to Memorial Hospital and doctors feared she would not live through the night, Rohnert Park Police Sgt. Art Sweeney said Tuesday.
The 15-year-old girl, a freshman at Rancho Cotate High School, had a tube inserted in her throat to help with her breathing, friends said. She was kept at the hospital through Sunday and was fully recovered and back at school on Monday, doing fine and showing off a hospital bracelet, said friend Gabriel Gomez.
Medical professionals said the amount of alcohol in her blood could have been lethal.
"She's lucky that her friends got to her when they did," said Memorial Hospital emergency room doctor Josh Kucker. "It's tough to say what could have happened if she had come in two minutes later."
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Holy crap.
}:-)4
Chugging 20 ounces of vodka ain’t too smart.
That’s a whole lot of vodka to swill down in one sitting.
A guy I was in the Army with, in Germany, died of Alcohol poisoning by drinking a little to much beer! Alright a whole lot to much. The fact is a lot of people don’t know you can die from drinking to much.
Ted Kennedy’s grandkid?
It’s a good thing some of her friends were not passed out drunk and had the presence of mind to know she was in danger.
When a college freshman I did about 10 tequila shots in 10 minutes; was horizontal for 3 days and couldn’t drink a margarita for 15 years.
with experts like that around, i always sleep better
Rohnert Park! I almost forgot that I had lived there for a year.
Darwin nominee?
You are likely to puke before that can occur. Built in self defense mechanism against toxicity and self-destruction.
Parents really should teach kids how to handle alcohol. They can start young with vocal instructions, and when the kids are older let the kids have a glass of wine on special occasions, so they learn how it affects them. It also diminishes the taboo attraction.
We supposed to teach them everything else. Why not this?
Don't even want to think about that.
Wow! I wonder how often sombody survives something that’s near-fatal?
Nope, ya gotta die first.
“Girl, 15, survives near-fatal 0.57 alcohol level “
(a good enough reason to repeat my experience with high blood alcohol
levels...er, people with high blood alcohol levels!)
In a prior life, part of my lab duties was to run blood alcohols
(in my state the law enforcement officer give drivers the option to
have duplicate tubes of blood drawn; one goes to the state lab and the
driver sends his/her tube to a reference lab).
The highest we ever saw was a 0.48% level.
When we called in the results, our boss asked the hospital:
“Is the patient alive?”
The answer was “Yes. The police found him stumbling around the woods
a couple hundred yards from his totalled car wrapped around a tree.
He had no idea how he’d got into the middle of the woods.”
“She’s lucky that her friends got to her when they did,”
With friends like that... If she’d been hanging around with a different group of friends, perhaps she wouldn’t have drank as much.
I learned mine my first Halloween in College. I drank 7 beers, a mickey (12 oz) of vodka, and 3 shots of Bacardi 151. It was a rough night, but I was okay in the morning (I don't get hangovers).
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