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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On My first tour in VN I saw a couple of Ridge Runners from Tenn get in to a Chugging contest, JD vs Dickel, a 5Th each, they both survived a little rough for the experience.
Damn that lot of Vodka who her father Looter guy
I haven’t had a shot of tequila for about 40 years.
I can’t even stand the smell of it.
Besides the fact it’s ILLEGAL...it’s one of those things that’s not teachable. Everyone has their own limits. If someone is prone to alcoholism, it doesn’t matter what you teach them...one is too many and 100 is not enough. If you don’t understand that, than congratulations...you don’t have a drinking problem.
What non drinkers don’t understand is that many times an alcoholic is an alcoholic from the first drink they take. You’ll just have to take my word on that.
Yea seems to me a near-Darwin award is warranted here.
I didn’t start drinking until after I was 21. And I’ve had my share of way too drunk since then, but after those type of days....I can’t drink for months.
I think there is something that makes the hangover easier to handle or acceptable pain when you start at a younger age. I pray my kids wait til their 21 to try drinking.
heh, lightweight... ;)
(btw, that's sarcasm if you hadn't noticed...)
any verbiage of who supplied the vodka?? What was the age and condition of the others?? Is anyone taking responsibility for the death, or manslaughter?? Any criminality here at all??
Rancho Cotate has long been the ‘party’ school in the Santa Rosa area. Sad, but not surprising - some things never change.
any verbiage of who supplied the vodka?? What was the age and condition of the others?? Is anyone taking responsibility for the near death, or almost manslaughter?? Any criminality here at all??
When I was Chief of Paramedics we had units frequently transporting people who had imbibed too much and were sick, very sick, but had not thrown up. One of the patients was at a campsite and the responding crew told his friends to let him sleep it off. The crew stopped for food on the way back to the hospital and by the time they got back the young man had been brought in, non-breather, by his camping friends. He died and we ended up in lots of trouble over that. This was 30 plus years ago, but the crew still should have transported the patient.
Alcohol is absorbed very rapidly by the body, and it’s quite possible to get too much in you before your body realizes it’s been poisoned and takes steps to get it out of your stomach.
The majority of the patients I’ve seen who had this problem were young and inexperienced and had no idea that booze could actually kill them. Most people also don’t know that drinking too much water can kill you too.
Ok where the hell were the adults?
Whew I bet that was one hell of a hangover.
I have three children and pray the same thing.
My oldest just finished his freshman year in college (he is 19) and does not drink.
My daughter is a junior in HS and does not drink.
My youngest (14) will be my challenge.
I did something similar with Bourbon when a senior in HS. It has been 35yrs. and the smell of Bourbon still makes me queezy.
My sons thanked me because when they went to college they were not the idiot drinkers like many of their peers....
Did we want them drinking? No, but we all survived....
Back when I was in college I knew a polynesian guy of indeterminate weight who downed a 5th of vodka. At least that’s what people said he had drank, I didn’t actually witness it. Still it was a guy who was probably 6’4 and somewhere north of 400 lbs.
Uh - I'll venture a guess. Is it the same as how many dead people are buried in a cemetery?
“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...”
Does EMS/Ambulance’s do blood-alcohol test on-site? I always thought this was done at the hospital.
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