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Hospital Releases Two Teens Who Ingested Jimson Weed
We live in Iowa. That's where our son and his friend decided to try some jimson weed on Friday, Nov. 6th. He was released from the hospital ten days ago, on Nov. 8th. He and his friend were in the hospital for two days. He barely remembers Monday. Friday night, all day Saturday and all day Sunday are gone from his memory almost completely. He was tied down in five-point restraints to a chair. They’d had him tied to the bed but he broke out of those. Twice. The hospital staff finally had to call the police to help. They brought a special chair to strap him down in. It took five police officers to get him down and hold him down to restrain him. 5 police versus one seventeen year old boy. Our son tried to punch a nurse, tried to rip out his catheter because he thought they were trying to cut his privates open, and vomited after he passed out cold. The doctor told us that based on when he threw up and when he was brought in to the hospital and how much of this he had ingested he would have died if he hadn’t thrown up. Luckily his friend hadn’t had as much and wasn’t in danger of dying. Our son is normally respectful of other people, such as nurses, doctors and police. None of his behavior during the time he was under the influence was ‘normal’ for him. The drug tests done on both boys came up negative, they aren’t drug addicts. They were curious and made a stupid choice. Thank god it didn’t cost my son his life.
November 17, 2009 at 11:32 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )