Yeah, true, I guess so... Though from experience, being at Uni ("these days"), the social pressure to drink (heavily), especially if you live on campus, which it sounds like she did, is insane...
Like to the point where I was actively ostracised for wanting to focus on my studies (at least initially) and not drink/go to a bar every three days or so... It got really, really bad. And that was at two different universities, in two states, in three different cities... :-/
Which is... Somewhat depressing. So... I can only imagine what that would have been like for a fairly pretty, small, young girl, in the UK, which has a rather... More "permissive" (for this sort of thing) and way, way less restrictive "drinking culture" than Australia does, these days... :-S
And it's also been a couple of years. I can only imagine this shit has gotten even more extreme, post-Covid (or maybe not, idk)...
Not saying you're wrong. Just that... I can kind of understand where she is at in life, especially as a law student (they party fucking hard, from experience)...
But yeah, re the symptoms she describes, and what you say there - you're right, in that... I've experienced temporary liver poisoning from binge drinking for an extended period of time, and it's horrific, so... Understandable the initial GP thought that way... Though due diligence suggests that after the second or third specialist, someone should've done a few more scans than they did, IMHO... shrug
But hell, I dunno. The whole thing just makes me sad. Especially knowing a girl who has chronic fatigue, only found out about it fairly late, and had it ruin her studies and life, pretty much exactly like this girl... Never mind my own MS and depression (and probably ADHD) shit. :-S
sigh Well, that got deep (apologies). Think I might go do some heavy exercise now, to take my mind off it, lol...
Yeah, I didn't take myself to the hospital when I should have re: perforated ulcers, because I'd been having stomach issues since the 1980s, and figured they'd just shrug me off for literal bellyachin'.
Thing is, I wasn't a drinker, at least not until the previous couple of years because of nightmares and an inability to get THC to shut them off.
So that's why I suffered for three days before falling on my face.
Damn thing is, something similar happened to a friend of mine back in the 90s, re: appendicitis. He ate the pain for three days or so, then passed out face-first in his cereal.
Yeah, true, I guess so... Though from experience, being at Uni ("these days"), the social pressure to drink (heavily), especially if you live on campus, which it sounds like she did, is insane...
Like to the point where I was actively ostracised for wanting to focus on my studies (at least initially) and not drink/go to a bar every three days or so... It got really, really bad. And that was at two different universities, in two states, in three different cities... :-/
Which is... Somewhat depressing. So... I can only imagine what that would have been like for a fairly pretty, small, young girl, in the UK, which has a rather... More "permissive" (for this sort of thing) and way, way less restrictive "drinking culture" than Australia does, these days... :-S
And it's also been a couple of years. I can only imagine this shit has gotten even more extreme, post-Covid (or maybe not, idk)...
Not saying you're wrong. Just that... I can kind of understand where she is at in life, especially as a law student (they party fucking hard, from experience)...
But yeah, re the symptoms she describes, and what you say there - you're right, in that... I've experienced temporary liver poisoning from binge drinking for an extended period of time, and it's horrific, so... Understandable the initial GP thought that way... Though due diligence suggests that after the second or third specialist, someone should've done a few more scans than they did, IMHO... shrug
But hell, I dunno. The whole thing just makes me sad. Especially knowing a girl who has chronic fatigue, only found out about it fairly late, and had it ruin her studies and life, pretty much exactly like this girl... Never mind my own MS and depression (and probably ADHD) shit. :-S
sigh Well, that got deep (apologies). Think I might go do some heavy exercise now, to take my mind off it, lol...
Yeah, I didn't take myself to the hospital when I should have re: perforated ulcers, because I'd been having stomach issues since the 1980s, and figured they'd just shrug me off for literal bellyachin'.
Thing is, I wasn't a drinker, at least not until the previous couple of years because of nightmares and an inability to get THC to shut them off.
So that's why I suffered for three days before falling on my face.
Damn thing is, something similar happened to a friend of mine back in the 90s, re: appendicitis. He ate the pain for three days or so, then passed out face-first in his cereal.