Alcohol
Drinking and Driving: Rob's story

Do you ever consider the consequences of underage drinking?
Rob says drinking has been part of every bad thing that has ever happened to him. Here is Rob’s story.

I was very shy socially, and drinking would ease that. I was hooked from the get go. I made a lot of new friends. I drank and drove hundreds of times. Nothing bad ever happened.

It seems like it always catches up to you though. I am now 26 years old, luckily. I have been arrested twice for DWI. I went through 26 weeks of alcohol classes. Finally my probation was over, and I felt free again.

Of course, I learned nothing. I went to a bar with a friend. Had a million beers. Didn't think twice about getting in his car to go home.

Later that morning, I woke up with a broken femur, a broken eye socket. I had no feeling in the left side of my face. Later I learned that the feeling would not come back. The dashboard had gone right through my leg, pinning me until the paramedics arrived.

I also woke up to find that 12 feet of rope had been placed in my nose, because my sinus cavity was crushed. My jaw was also sutured shut.

Basically, I was drinking one moment and the next I was laying in bed not being able to see, not able to breath. My mouth was shut, and my sinus cavity was broken so was breathing out of one nostril. Couldn’t move because I had a major break in my leg.

How one moment can change your life is amazing. This was two years ago. I’m still going to physical therapy. Oh how I wish I could take that day back.

Oh, all my drinking buddies? They’re all gone now. They weren't “professionals“ like me. I was the one at the parties trying to get everyone drunk. My friend alcohol really made me pay my dues.

Thank God I never hurt any one else. Well, physically anyway. Mentally I have done my damage.

Lucky to be here,

Rob