9/10

I had gone to New Jersey to visit family on september 9th 2009. The night I arrived my aunt had obviously been drinking alot of alcohol, she was irritable, loud, and had a “loose” like body posture. The next morning at about 9:30, I had awaken to my aunt, sitting at the kitchen table shaking as if she had a bad case of parkinson’s disease. She had a garbage pale clinched between her arms and legs, and in the garbage pale was a large quantity of vomit. She was dry-heaving since she had nothing left in her stomach and every time food was mentioned she would vomit. This lasted about two and a half hours, during which my uncle was in a panic state trying to figure what was wrong and how to help. The intensity climaxed when my aunt started throwing-up a purpelish, black substance into the pale; at the same time my uncle started sreaming in a questioning manner if he should take her to the hospital. If they had done that it would’ve prevented the up and coming escapade from ever happening, except, being a nurse herself, my aunt figured all the hassle to get to the hospital, the drive, the wait, and everything else that came with a hospital visit wasn’t worth it. As this was going on I started thinking and came to a conclusion that my aunt was detoxing from alcohol; she had the basic symptoms including the tremors and excessive vomiting.

I took control of the situation and took the only joint I brought with me to NJ and gave it to her. She took 3 or 4 drags when my uncle made her put the joint out. Not even 5 minutes had gone by when I looked in her direction and noticed her gazing through the window toward the lake with a weak smile. I silently got my uncles attention and he looked over and saw her relaxed, he yelled out “hahaha you stoned ?!”. She looked over in his direction and flexed a smile; she stood up slowly and walked toward my uncle and sat down next to him on the couch. My uncle asked “how you feeling?”, she replied in a lethargic way “gooood…”.

The rest of the day she would remain calm, however the next day, on route to my birthday dinner, my aunt fell over in a seizure onto my lap. We took her to the hospital were she under went testing, and in the midst of everything, she had a seizure right in front of the doctor. This lasted less than a minute and when it was over the doctor instinctively knew she was under going alcohol detox. She would sober up during the next few days and reappear as the healthy beautiful aunt I once had.