Random Tuesday Thoughts: Annoyances, Flopped and Drugged

It is so windy outside!! Almost stormy. I don't mind the wind as long as I don't lose my power. If that happens, I will not be happy!

After 3.5 years of trying to get Kyle to hook up our TiVo and throwing a hissy fit if I try to record one of "my" shows on the DVR downstairs, I've finally decided I've had enough and I ordered a DVR for "my" tv upstairs. It will be here on Friday. FINALLY!! And you better believe I'll throw my own kind of hissy fit if he tries to record something on "MY" DVR! Ha!

I made applesauce last night. SO GOOD!! Now I may just make an apple pie today to get Kyle to zip his lips about me NOT making apple pie. {Can you tell he's driving me nuts? I love the boy, but he's making me crazy!}

Kyle's grandpa was supposed to be discharged from the hospital yesterday. That didn't happen. Why? Because the night before, he decided that he wanted to get off the bed and move around with no help. He fell and hit his chin hard. And broke his jaw!!! SO, now today some time, he has to have ANOTHER surgery to put a metal plate in his jaw and he has his second {or third?} dialysis treatment. Then hopefully he can go home on Thursday.

My cat can open our bedroom door, but it usually takes him a few tries. This morning {while I was still trying to sleep} the wind blew the door shut so he was trying to open it and just kept scratching at the door. OMGosh!! So annoying! He finally got it open and so I didn't have to sick Chewy on him. {Not that Chewy would've done anything anyway...he just looks at us like we've got 2 heads if we tell him to "get the kitty".}

{This tidbit probably deserves it's own post, but oh well...}

As some of you know, my sister's birthday was on Sunday and I went over to her house on Saturday evening to stay the night and watch her boys. If my mom had been in town, I would've been out on the town with her and her friends. I've been worried about a repeat of last year, but figured she learned her lesson about drinking too much. She's been telling people {myself included} that last year was "Epic". She didn't give me any time to "lecture" her when I got to her house so I just told her to be safe.

I didn't know what time they were planning on being home, and it didn't really matter since I had planned on staying the night. About 2 am, they get home and Justin comes in the house and is ranting and raving. I was asleep, but had only been for maybe half hour. He tells me that Dawn's been puking since they left Seattle, she was kicked out of the bar for being drunk {WTH?! Aren't most people drunk in bars / clubs?!} and she can't move her body. He gathered some clothes for her and loaded her back up into the car to take her to the hospital.

They got home about 5:30 am and I knew they were home but I was asleep so not coherent enough to even try to figure out what had happened. I left their house about 8am and didn't even try to call my sister on Sunday. I finally talked to her yesterday and here's what happened.

Some time during the night / early morning, they were hanging out in a group in the club. Some guy came up and kissed my sister's hand and all her girlfriends told the guy that it was her birthday. So he says he'll be right back. When he comes back, he had a red plastic cup {like the kind you'd have at a picnic} and it's filled halfway with jager. Dawn was buzzed, but not drunk. She knew that it seemed odd that it wasn't in a glass and that it was filled with jager, when normally you'd get just a shot or so of the alcohol. But both her husband and another guy friend smelled the contents and said that it was probably ok. Dawn says that she would not have drank {drunk?} it had someone told her not to. But because the guys "approved" of it, she went for it. This stranger was pressuring her to drink it all even though it was like 5 shots and she was having a hard time getting it down. Almost immediately after she finished it, she lost her sight and any control over her body. She was coherent and knew exactly what was going on, but she couldn't move. I guess it was about this time that she was kicked out. I'm not exactly sure how that part all transpired, but needless to say, they left.

When they got home, Justin came in and said that she couldn't move and he thought that he should take her to the hospital. He couldn't believe that this was happening yadda yadda yadda. I told him that it would be a good idea to take her just to be safer than sorry. Especially because she couldn't move her body. I guess she puked the entire way home and "the car is ruined" in Justin's words.

So they got to the hospital and Dawn was able to tell them her name and her birthday. She couldn't see at all. They were doing an eye test and she wasn't responding. It was like she wasn't there. She started hyperventilating. I guess normal is 13-18 breaths a minute and hers was 77. Her blood alcohol level was very low so she wasn't drunk at all. I guess it takes about a month to trace drugs and get results back so they didn't test her for it, but they think that she was given an "exotic drug". She thought she was going to die.

On Sunday she was still having trouble seeing and she fell off the toilet and got a 3 inch cut on her arm. Her head has been feeling heavy, but I think she's starting to "snap out of it". Very scary! She is very well aware that it was stupid to take a drink from a stranger, as well as a drink that seemed suspicious. I believe she learned a valuable lesson.

{And just as an FYI, she rarely drinks. Maybe two times a year. She didn't go out on Saturday night with the intention of getting drunk or into any trouble. She wanted to "keep it classy". I'm just glad that she's ok.}

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