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So, my foreboding was well-placed in this day.
One of Jason's co-workers (Francisco) is in a coma. Apparently Francisco was out with his girlfriend at a bar on Friday night and his heart stopped in the bathroom. The remaining details are fuzzy or nonexistent. I'll venture to say that he was drinking heavily and took something of the illegal variety on top of the alcohol. He's been in the coma since late Friday/early Saturday. They are unsure whether he will come out of the coma and if he does wake, if he will be seriously brain damaged. He's not even 30 years old.
I've known Francisco for 3 years. Jason's known him for 6. He speaks enough English to understand and follow a conversation, but he's shy about speaking it at times because it isn't his native tongue. He'd much rather speak Spanish. Anyway, regardless of the limits of the language barrier, he's a genuine person, a nice person, an interesting person, and not someone I would suspect to be in this sort of predicament. I always knew he was a party-goer, a club-goer. Any time I've seen him outside of a work environment, he's been intoxicated or on his way to becoming so. However, I assumed that he had it under control. Apparently not. I feel extremely bad for his girlfriend. I'm sure she's worried sick.
It's all very distressing to me. About a year ago Caricia (Jason's sister) had a boyfriend who drowned in her mother's bathtub after taking a large dose of meth. She found him curled up underwater and dead. He'd been that way for nearly 30 minutes, so there was no chance of reviving him. The funeral was a bitch because he wasn't even 21 and the number of kids there sobbing their eyes out was heartbreaking. Jason's fellow DJ (Joe) has been more heavily involved with drugs since his long-time girlfriend left him. He looks horrible and is incapable of holding down a job. My boss' daughter has gotten involved with a boyfriend who takes several different drugs, cocaine being one, and from the looks of things she has become addicted as well. And she's spending mommy's money quite nicely in the process. An old friend of mine from back home has been slipping down into consistent use of alcohol and pot to fend off some personal issues from her past that continue to creep into her present. I tried for two years to help her, but failed. I've given up and I fear that she'll go deeper and there really isn't anything I can do about it. Granted, there is no official word on what made Francisco's heart stop in that bar. I can think of nothing beyond a chemical. He was otherwise healthy with no heart problems. However, I can easily see him drunk and accepting something along the lines of meth or cocaine in his inebriated state.
It's rather clear why I have such a strong and intolerant view of drugs. All of these people ruining their lives with drugs and it's all for nothing. It makes me very sad. And very helpless as well.
One of Jason's co-workers (Francisco) is in a coma. Apparently Francisco was out with his girlfriend at a bar on Friday night and his heart stopped in the bathroom. The remaining details are fuzzy or nonexistent. I'll venture to say that he was drinking heavily and took something of the illegal variety on top of the alcohol. He's been in the coma since late Friday/early Saturday. They are unsure whether he will come out of the coma and if he does wake, if he will be seriously brain damaged. He's not even 30 years old.
I've known Francisco for 3 years. Jason's known him for 6. He speaks enough English to understand and follow a conversation, but he's shy about speaking it at times because it isn't his native tongue. He'd much rather speak Spanish. Anyway, regardless of the limits of the language barrier, he's a genuine person, a nice person, an interesting person, and not someone I would suspect to be in this sort of predicament. I always knew he was a party-goer, a club-goer. Any time I've seen him outside of a work environment, he's been intoxicated or on his way to becoming so. However, I assumed that he had it under control. Apparently not. I feel extremely bad for his girlfriend. I'm sure she's worried sick.
It's all very distressing to me. About a year ago Caricia (Jason's sister) had a boyfriend who drowned in her mother's bathtub after taking a large dose of meth. She found him curled up underwater and dead. He'd been that way for nearly 30 minutes, so there was no chance of reviving him. The funeral was a bitch because he wasn't even 21 and the number of kids there sobbing their eyes out was heartbreaking. Jason's fellow DJ (Joe) has been more heavily involved with drugs since his long-time girlfriend left him. He looks horrible and is incapable of holding down a job. My boss' daughter has gotten involved with a boyfriend who takes several different drugs, cocaine being one, and from the looks of things she has become addicted as well. And she's spending mommy's money quite nicely in the process. An old friend of mine from back home has been slipping down into consistent use of alcohol and pot to fend off some personal issues from her past that continue to creep into her present. I tried for two years to help her, but failed. I've given up and I fear that she'll go deeper and there really isn't anything I can do about it. Granted, there is no official word on what made Francisco's heart stop in that bar. I can think of nothing beyond a chemical. He was otherwise healthy with no heart problems. However, I can easily see him drunk and accepting something along the lines of meth or cocaine in his inebriated state.
It's rather clear why I have such a strong and intolerant view of drugs. All of these people ruining their lives with drugs and it's all for nothing. It makes me very sad. And very helpless as well.
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