while sleeping scares me. Anyone else sometimes sleep sitting up because of this? Would it even help?
Well, that was implied. I always make myself sleep sitting up drunk. I don't drink much because I hate the spins. But what about if you are just feeling shitty and you take some medicine to make you sleep? I always picture paramedics in my room so I try to keep it clean. I'm safe. It only happens to male rockers: http://elvispelvis.com/inhalationofvomit.htm
Best place to sleep when really drunk is in the bathtub. Besides the fact that it's easier to cleanup after and you naturally sit up. For some reason it can make the spinning go away.
There are other positions you can adopt that help with reducing spin effects other than sitting up. One I found is on your back, with your hands clasped above your head on the pillow, this works for light drunkeness, The other is the "Rob Recovery Position(tm)" which is resting on your knees and elbows with your head down close to the bed/ground this can be the most effective at both reducing dizzy and puking feeling, but it will ache your arms and knees after a little while, so you have to rest on your side, if it returns, get back on your knees and elbows. The thing I do if I get the spins and know I'm gonna throw up is purposely visit the toilet and induce it myself via finger, you feel a lot better knowing you got it out of the way.
I knew that one, and how to perform Triage and create Tourniquets and a number of other 'first responder' actions, is as Ive taken a military based First Aid test (and passed yay)
I have all the first responders stuff, and a really cool certificate from Homeland Security. Plus I am a Nationally Certified FireFighter, which is odd cause I only do that part-time at work, not like around town with a muni department. Of course if it paid more money..... oh, but the puke thing is the same as trying to choke yourself out with your hands, unless you have other impeding issues, you cant do it. You'll pass out and start breathing again. But I think it is a good idea to keep your bedroom clean incase the paramedics come and find you in your bed dead with vomit all over you and a bed full of crap. I'm sure they will appreciate the attempt. "wow I bet this room would smell great if it wasnt for the vomit and fecal covered dead body in the bed" And do not go in the bathroom. That is the place people go to die. Ask any paramedic in a resort town where they find the most dead people. 10-1 its in the crapper.
I only used to get the spins if the alcohol was combined with pot (loooong time ago, BTW). I almost never puke the night of. I puke the day after and it usually makes me feel (a little) better.
Like I said, I had a [highlight]Food Handler's Permit[/highlight]. You can't really top that so you might want to quit bragging.
Food Handler? You ever been a slaughter house? There are a lot of 'Food Handlers' in there that make 6.00 an hour. I wasnt bragging, just slowly letting you know that I am actually here scanning for security threats to national security. Please continue with your thread.
I worked for the Y when I was a teenager and had to have one to serve poiso... I mean 'snacks' to the kiddies. I had to take all kinds of classes and get certificates for that job and it paid a little above minimum wage. To obtain a Food Handlers Permit, you go to the local health dept. and watch a movie and then they give you your card. It was a joke, phatfuck. Actual slaughterhouse, no. I have seen "Faces of Death" though which showed one and I have been a vegetarian ever since.
Yeah she fell for the old "You gottsa learn to handle sausages" ploy. I can hear her "how come the hot dogs don't come all the way through the hole?"
I did a stint at a meat processing facility, from the time the cows walked off the truck to the time they rolled two seperate sides into the cooler was 20 minutes. The coolest thing was youd have this skinned, headless, half cow go by with its muscles still twitching. Pretty neat process. Unless you are the cow. The only bad thing was the big cart full of cow heads, all skinned back with them big eyes looking up at you. Some of the best filets I ever had came from that place. Of course they gave you an entire tender, so you either had to have it cut, or you could do it yourself. We cut them and then marinated and freeze dried them. After letting it age in the 'crisper' for about a month.
Your more likely to get a severe pneumonia and burn your lungs out from the acid in your stomach. Drunks and pneumonias go hand and hand with aspirating their own spit. We do keep people at an greater than a 30 degree angle when giving them tube feeds to try to help prevent aspirations when they have Nasgastric tubes. Usually they say to turn someone on their side when they are having a seizure so if the vomit they will be less likely to choke on their own puke.
