I hate drunk drivers.

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This is a rant.

[rant: on]So a 20 year old girl was admitted to my ward yesterday with a fractured tibia sustained in an MVA. She was t-boned by a drunk driver. She had emergency surgery to fix it (forgot the name of the surgery). Anyway, she developed compartment syndrome. We spotted it right away and the surgeon was informed and she came back to our ward from surgery with four fasciotomies. Over the course of an hour she became very dyspneac: 25 resps/min, 92 sats. Not fifteen minutes later her sats dropped to 64%. Gave her 10L oxygen which brought her up to 92%. Chest pain was noted on inspiration, so I suspected an emboli. Sent her down for a CXR and CT on 10L oxygen, full tank. She returned to ward with no tank and no mask with cyanosis up the ying yang. Got her back onto oxygen and more concious. Results of her CXR and CT came back and were positive for a fat embolus. I reiterate, this patient is 20 years old. [rant: off]

Maybe I have thin skin (still a student, practicing as an LPN on days off) but boy was I mad. Soooo young and all this crap happening to her... all because of a drunk driver. I HATE drunk drivers. Thanks for letting me rant.:bowingpur

We lost a dear basketball player about 7 years ago to a drunk driver. And come to find out... the state patrol just pulled him over AGAIN 2 days ago for DWI. He was also caught in 2006. What does it take??

http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=502951

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It doesn't even matter if you take away their license. They will still find a way.

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We lost a dear basketball player about 7 years ago to a drunk driver. And come to find out... the state patrol just pulled him over AGAIN 2 days ago for DWI. He was also caught in 2006. What does it take??

http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=502951

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It doesn't even matter if you take away their license. They will still find a way.

That is very frustrating . . . :madface:

steph

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All I can find is that Candy Lightner left MADD, the organization she started because:

Candy Lightner's departure

By 1985, many MADD leaders were calling for the criminalization of all driving after drinking any amount of alcoholic beverage. Ms. Lightner disagreed with this aim and said that police ought to be concentrating their resources on arresting drunk drivers, not those drivers who happen to have been drinking.

Lightner stated that MADD "has become far more neo-prohibitionist than I had ever wanted or envisioned ... I didn't start MADD to deal with alcohol. I started MADD to deal with the issue of drunk driving"

Maybe some disgruntled person started a rumor. I am still looking for evidence that Candy drove while drunk . . .

steph

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I didn't find any evidence either steph so it very well may just be a rumor

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I found this on MADD's website:

I heard that MADD's founder was arrested for drunk driving. Is this true?

I heard that MADD's founder was arrested for drunk driving. Is this true?

MADD's founder has never been arrested for drunk driving.

http://www.madd.org/getdoc/262701cb-293a-4ee8-a28c-a7872c0c5f62/FAQS.aspx#FAQ8

My brother IS a drunk driver. In his 40's, lives with Mommy who enables him and babies him. Have no sympathy for him or anyone else who drives drunk. My mother is convinced it is a disease, can you believe that? I tell her cancer is a disease, you have no choice, no one ever wakes up and says "I'm going to have cancer today"

I think alcoholism is most definitely a disease. Drunk driving is a crime. It's an important distinction.

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I think alcoholism is most definitely a disease. Drunk driving is a crime. It's an important distinction.

and alcoholism/addiction, the diseases, create much pain, havoc, hardship in the lives of those touched by these 'diseases'.

no sympathy here.

and ftr, it took me yrs to feel unsympathetic.

but this is what i've arrived at, after many journeys with those afflicted.

it is not such a distinction when they clearly overlap w/one another, time after time after time...

leslie

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I remember hearing this on radio news program at the time it happened. I did not say an arrest was made. She was pulled over for it and she admitted it at the time that she had been drinking.

It was rather swepted under the rug as law enforcement had a stake in MADD. It may never have appeared in print for this reason, especially since there was no arrest.

I have had several print news articles about me. That have been on the net for about 5 years. Then a few weeks ago I googled myself again (I do this periodically as I need to keep abreast of what is out there on me) and they were totally gone. I could not find them anywhere even though I knew exactly where to look.

I understand needing empirical evidence. I also know that things do disappear and especially things that need to stay disappeared. I assume you will take this with a grain of salt. I would if I where you. Just be aware that everything is not always out there to be easily.

Then again the news does not alway get it right do they? And memories fail even when it is not something that we "just now" remembered, but a memory carried from when the event originated.

Maybe the radio station had it in for her or the reporter who knows.

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Yea, we all hate them. I have no respect for MADD. Shortly after this organization was started the founder was pulled over for DUI. It only applies to other people who drive drunk I guess.

Maybe I'll ask the more specific question you stated . . .that shortly after she started the organization, she was pulled over for DUI.

From all I've read about her though - she started the organization shortly after her 13 year old daughter was essentially crushed to death - so badly that her organs could not be harvested.

I actually give money to MADD and have a MADD bumper sticker.

I need to nail this one down.

steph

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Specializes in EMS, ER, GI, PCU/Telemetry.

my high school sweetheart was killed a month shy of his 22nd birthday by a drunk driver. he was ejected from the car and died instantly. the other person in the car died en route to the hospital. the drunk driver walked away without a scratch.

people who drive drunk not only have no respect for themselves or others, but no respect for human life in general. i dont like them either.

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my high school sweetheart was killed a month shy of his 22nd birthday by a drunk driver. he was ejected from the car and died instantly. the other person in the car died en route to the hospital. the drunk driver walked away without a scratch.

people who drive drunk not only have no respect for themselves or others, but no respect for human life in general. i dont like them either.

I am so sorry about your sweetheart. :icon_hug:

steph

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Maybe I'll ask the more specific question you stated . . .that shortly after she started the organization, she was pulled over for DUI.

From all I've read about her though - she started the organization shortly after her 13 year old daughter was essentially crushed to death - so badly that her organs could not be harvested.

I actually give money to MADD and have a MADD bumper sticker.

I need to nail this one down.

steph

Yes that is why it was started. I am sorry I only have my personal memory to go on. How would it change things for you if you could verify it? Since this has been long forgotten how would that have a bearing. As I stated some MADD people drive or have in this case. Some Christians do unChristian things, some Nurses divert drugs, Some native americans are bigots, some do I need to go on? There are hippocrits in every organization.

Do you thow the baby out with the bath water?

I have an adversion to contributing or supporting this organization because of this memory and I do not see it accomplishing anything. If I saw some substantial positive impact from this organization then maybe I might reconsider my view of it. This lady to my knowledge never did this again or at least did not get caught. It probably was during the time she was still emoationally fragile from her daughter's death.

I always figured it was and this was a case of bad judgement on her part. Something she may have always done and did not make the connection until all of this happened.

My point was that she was being blind to the impact of her own behavior at the time casting blame somewhere else. The point is a lot of us do that. (maybe human nature) I did not give a second thought to driving after taking those pills (see prior post) It was only after I was sober did I begin to recognize that I was indeed impaired. If I was not pulled over and did not have the thought run through my mind that I was taking these meds as an excuse for the cop I might still not have ever realized the impact of what I was doing.

Even though technically I know as a nurse what these meds are and do, from a subjective perspective and under their influence I never thought about it. I thought I was just fine.

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Yes that is why it was started. I am sorry I only have my personal memory to go on. How would it change things for you if you could verify it? Since this has been long forgotten how would that have a bearing. As I stated some MADD people drive or have in this case. Some Christians do unChristian things, some Nurses divert drugs, Some native americans are bigots, some do I need to go on? There are hippocrits in every organization.

Do you thow the baby out with the bath water?

I have an adversion to contributing or supporting this organization because of this memory and I do not see it accomplishing anything. If I saw some substantial positive impact from this organization then maybe I might reconsider my view of it. This lady to my knowledge never did this again or at least did not get caught. It probably was during the time she was still emoationally fragile from her daughter's death.

I always figured it was and this was a case of bad judgement on her part. Something she may have always done and did not make the connection until all of this happened.

My point was that she was being blind to the impact of her own behavior at the time casting blame somewhere else. The point is a lot of us do that. (maybe human nature) I did not give a second thought to driving after taking those pills (see prior post) It was only after I was sober did I begin to recognize that I was indeed impaired. If I was not pulled over and did not have the thought run through my mind that I was taking these meds as an excuse for the cop I might still not have ever realized the impact of what I was doing.

Even though technically I know as a nurse what these meds are and do, from a subjective perspective and under their influence I never thought about it. I thought I was just fine.

I'm not throwing anything out.

I just want to find out if this is true. I don't like rumors.

She may not have even been pulled over at all.

steph

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