Emergency Room Series - Moderation is Key.

The festive season has started and this means we will be getting a lot of people into the ER for the next couple of weeks. 

Most of them would be cases of diarrhea from overeating at parties, alcohol intoxication, trauma victims from street fights and accidents.

A guy in his late twenties was rushed in by his friends. He was said to have been found in a cubicle in the female restroom of a club where they were having a party after they had been searching for him for a while. He was said to have been drinking a lot of alcohol and they found him laying on the floor with vomit in the toilet bowl too.


On admission, he was semiconscious and disoriented. When the doctor asked his friends how much alcohol he took, they said about ten shots of vodka and a few bottles of beer. He was said to have been staggering and was told to sit and rest but he insisted on using the restroom. When he got there, he threw up and passed out on the floor.
We reduced the alcohol in his blood by giving him IV fluids and some other injections to counter and reduce the effects of the alcohol. Some blood samples were taken to check his liver and kidney functions. 

Gradually, he regained full consciousness. A urinary catheter was passed into his penis because he kept soiling the sheets with urine since he was too drunk to control himself. When his friends were allowed in to see him, they mocked him and took turns to take videos and selfies which they intend to use to haunt him when he gets better.

 Even after regaining consciousness, he was talking gibberish, he talked about his parents, work and sex life, although no one asked. His friends kept asking him silly questions like if he was in love with his boss's wife, his account balance, his ATM pin, how many girls he was wooing etc which he answered so seriously. Other ER staffs had their own share of something to laugh about.

 He said he was hot and we should drop the moon on him. It was the serious look on his face that made it even funnier. When asked if he knew where he was he said he was on moon and asked his friends why they all had four eyes. I could barely control my laughter. He touched the tube passed into his penis to collect urine and thought his penis had gotten longer. 

He asked his friends to touch his 'longer' penis, they quickly stepped back laughing. After sometime, he began to sing, dance and laugh a lot and at some point he was crying for no reason. I haven't seen alcohol messing with someone that much. After a few hours, he got better and went home as the clown of the year.


He was quite lucky to have been found in the toilet in time, I wondered what would have happened if his friends didn't bother about his whereabouts. He could have chocked on his vomit and things could have been worse, who knows. People think its not possible to die from drinking too much alcohol.


As we celebrate with friends and families this festive season, I want us to be careful about how and what we eat and drink. Moderation is key. If the guy was a lady, its quite possible she could have been taken advantage of in her vulnerable state if she was the one laying alone in a club toilet floor drunk. Let's be safe guys and enjoy the festive season wisely.