Little Miss Adventure: Bachelorette Gone Wild

11/5/06 | 60Gunner

[60Gunner]

Believe it or not, I've seen BACs of 0.812 before, and the guy lived. After a week of DTs, he discharged from the hospital and went out and did it all over again. Job security.

[ConservativeMind]

Wow. Sad.

[CrawDaddyCA]

Now, we needed to get a urine toxicology screen as well.

I have a question, who decides that the patient should be given a urine test? It seems to me that drawing blood should be sufficient to determine her BAC. I ask because I'm ignorant as to the criteria that determines this.

Also, will this be reported to the local law enforcement?

[fieldmarshaldj]

What, no pictures ? ;-)

[Mo1]

Wow .. she's a real charmer ... bet her mom is real proud of her .. /sarc >

[Hetty_Fauxvert]

Holy cow. What a story. Thanks for sharing!

Very well-written, btw.

[60Gunner]

As a general rule, if someone comes in intoxicated alone, a BAC is usually all that is ordered. But if someone comes in swinging, biting and spitting, there is the possibility that there more than alcohol an board. So in that case, a "tox screen" is ordered by the MD to make sure that there is no PCP or Meth involved. Those patients are sheer nightmares.

As far as law enforcement notification goes, the patient really did not break any laws. The bouncers called EMS because the lady got knocked out momentarily. The patient did not drive drunk. And while she tested positive for THC, we cannot inform law enforcement because we did not see her smoking the joint.

[Constantine XIII]

Launching all ROFLcopters.

[onyx]

My exact thought.

[Bender]

Great gugly mugly!!! Shoot, if she breathed into the throttle body on my bikes fuel injection system she could have darned near run the thing!

[MediaMole]

Do not go gentle into that E.R.
Teacher drunk by night, molds our young by day.
Rage, rage against the tying of the straps.

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Gotta give props to a kindergarten teacher who can out drink Dylan Thomas.

[60Gunner]

Nope. If you want a good idea of what the young ladies were wearing, I suppose you could rent one of those Wrestling Divas DVDs. If I ever caught my daughter wearing that kind of stuff, I'd lock her in the basement. And my daughter is in college. (She lives with us, though, and is a pretty good kid, all-in-all. She gets that from her mother, of course!)

[CrawDaddyCA]

Roger that, thanks. Sounds like you had a busy evening with this little firecracker.

Many thanks to you, for performing a thankless task.

[Cindy]

I feel for you.

One must never, never underestimate the strength of tiny women especially when they are high on stuff and/or drunk.

God bless you 60Gunner.

[cherry]

I've been a nurse for too, too long and can tell stories about the druggies and alchies.....so I do have some sympathy with this ER staff....however....

I would go nuts if anyone put leather restraints on me.....I'm sort of claustophobic anyway......

I vow here and now to be the worse patient ever when my time comes.....LOL

[Southack]

A .418 and she can recognize her friend Nikki with an i as well as comiserate!

That girl was an underachiever. Her brain was genetically available for much more than being a K teacher.

[60Gunner]

Which is sad? The fact that she is a saucehead at such an early age, or the fact that she is being paid to teach five-year-olds?

[Theresawithanh]

You were too nice to her, taking blood from the inside of her elbow! When I took a header on my 10-speed years ago and cracked my head open, I got an IV on my upper inner thigh, close to the you-know-what, which hurt like all-fired holy hell!

Great story.

[60Gunner]

Oh, you would not believe the folks we get from time to time. We had a 39 year-old man who with a BAC of 400-plus who also swung, kicked, spat, bit, called us vile names... and live with his mother, who had to come and get him. I felt genuinely sorry for the poor woman. You could see the sorrow in her eyes.

[60Gunner]

Thanks. I enjoy writing about what I genuinely love doing.