Posted on 09/28/2007 10:13:37 AM PDT by UKrepublican
Man's 60 pint drinking binge
A MAN stumped doctors when he walked into a hospital emergency room complaining of blurred vision and a constant headache.
The 37-year-old had swollen optical nerves and bleeding nerve fibres but doctors at the Southern General Hospital, Glasgow, could not tell what had caused it.
All became clear when the patient revealed he had consumed 60 pints in the last four days - prompted by 'a domestic crisis'.
His massive alcohol intake had caused severe dehydration which led to a rare condition called cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST).
A scan of his brain's blood vessels confirmed the diagnosis.
CVST - which can cause seizures, impaired consciousness, loss of vision and neurological damage - strikes three or four people per million, mainly children, every year in Britain. The cause is generally unknown.
It took more than six months of long-term blood-thinning treatment to restore the man's normal vision and to get rid of the headache, the doctors reported.
(reporter) "Mr. Fields,what would your father say if he knew you drank a fifth of gin a day?!"
(Fields) "What would he say? Why he'd call me a sissy!"
Not for the house carpenters I had to work with when I roofed houses in the 70's.
Yes, they had beer for breakfast while waiting for the sun to some up on the job site.
Good stuff.
A friend of mine lived in St. Andrew's, Scotland for a few months and he says one of his most interesting memories from that time was going to the 8 a.m. Mass on Sundays and smelling the whisky on the breath of the old ladies who constituted about 90% of that Mass' congregation.
Another friend noted that a common pre-breakfast tipple in Normandy before one's cafe au lait and baguette is a quick shot of 80 proof calvados (known in the US as applejack).
I certainly hope he was drinking decent beer at the time. A nice Newkie Brown at least. One very troubling thing I noticed in my recent visits to the UK — Budweiser was considered good beer.
"Honest, Officer, I only had the one."
You guys don’t drink beer by the pint?
Never heard the saying - ‘mines a pint....’?
Oh man, certainly not. You must have been in a pub with a load of underaged drinkers.
If us Brits know one thing - it’s a good beer.
Now that his headache is gone, is he back at the pub?
I think this is right in your wheelhouse.
Hoax! Everybody knows you can’t get immediate medical attention in the UK.
My sister-in-law’s brother went on a drinking binge one weekend. He only consummed alcohol for three days.
He was found dead.
Later it was determined that he died of alcohol poisoning.
I’m sorry he died, but...
Stupid, stupid, stupid.
I miss my bitters over here -- that's one thing that's never caught on over here Stateside.
Yes, Pippin. ;>)
60 pints in 4 days?
What a laggard!
Twenty-four beers in a case,
twenty-four hours in a day.
Coincidence?
I think not!
Maybe by "lager louts."
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