Drunk Teenage Girls!
Nothing spices up an ER like a teenage girl who gets drunk for the first time, brought in by her shocked parents. It might be a boy-girl party or a school function. She is picked up from home by her friends, but she never makes it inside to the party. Instead, she goes for a ride with some other friends. When she's totally trashed and it's time to go home, they drop her off in the driveway.But the night isn't over yet. Not this time.
"I need a doctor!"
Daddy is wheeling his princess frantically through the ER.
Her head is tilted back, mouth agape, her hair a mess, somehow she's wearing different (sleazier) clothes than the ones she left home with earlier that night. How did he make it past triage? Where did he get the wheelchair? What has happened to his little angel? None of that really matters at this point....just put her in a room and we'll assess her there. Patient safety always comes first.
Actually, she's less comatose than she looks. Slurred speech with a pungent bouquet of tequila and vomitus. Yelling words he's never heard her say before. Nasty, evil words. Mom is parking the car, but she'll make her presence known soon enough.
She's going to be fine, I tell him. Just looks like she had a bit too much to drink.
He vents his frustration on me. "Are you the doctor? Aren't you going to pump her stomach? I've never seen my daughter like this!"
She's never come home drunk before?
"Hell, no! She's an honor student."
Of course. 18 year old honor students never get drunk at parties, I wanted to say.
Then Mom shows up, screaming into the cell phone. "You tell me what she took! We're trying to save a life here!!!!" The other kids aren't telling her anything. They always cover for each other.
My favorite part was when the (now awake) girl was thrashing around with three of us restraining her, and she tried to bite one of the nurses. I maneuvered her arm close to her mouth, and she bit her own arm. It took a few seconds for her to realize it, and yes, it left a mark. Comedy gold.
When she sucker-punched Mom in the face and made her cry, that was tragic, however. I hate to see that. Good thing she's an honor student.
posted by scalpel at 1:30 PM
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Remember, it's fun until someone loses an eye (or bites themselves in the arm, in her case) :-)....
I haven't dealt with one of those since football season. That said, the effluvia that was vomitus coming out of the 15 year-old girl I was dealing with (good God, I feel like I just raised and called during a hand of 5-card draw) looked like Regan's classic scene from "The Exorcist", as did the words coming out of her mouth. Sounds like yours did the same thing..... What was the BAC on yours? Mine's was 328, and she maybe weighed 100 lbs. soaking wet.
That is going to be some hangover.....
I've seen more than a few come in complaining of "someone put something in my drink". The tox screens invariably come back confirming their suspicions: that "something" being gin.
And then there was the girl whose parents brought her in, in severe pain, after her first sexual encounter with a particularly energetic and well-endowed boy...I'm glad I wasn't the one to tell them.
This post combined features of three similar patients. The most recent girl had a blood alcohol level of 232, but I don't recall the other two. I think they were about the same.
I'm going to continue the theme of troubled teenagers with my next post.
Your kidding? people are that stupid?
Biting her own arm was genius though!
Yeah she's a nasty violent drunk who thinks nothing of hurting the ones who love her, whatever...
but was she HOT???
I bet the nurses you work with think that you are a darling. I've worked with doctors who will stand by and watch while the nurses struggle to restrain a patient. Nurses love docs who jump in and help.
MJ
I can't tell you how many sexual assault exam I've done on drunken teenage girls who woke up with no clothes on, or who was dropped off home by her friends in sleezy attire/clothes different from what they left home in. Parents are all frantic that their dear princess had been "slipped something."
"Actually, Sir (or Ma'am)," I would always have to tell them, "your daughter's just very drunk."
Around spring time is usually the worst in these parts as the teenagers wants to party with the college crowd.
Charity
aratinga's got it right....was she HOT?
c'mon...don't lie...you KNOW that's one of the guilty pleasures of the drunk 18-22 year olds...
When you get to be my age, ALL 18-22 year old girls are hot.
Did you diagnoze the parents with a bad case of "denial"?
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