Hitting A Wall And Bad Breath

The young woman was driving home late at night and crashed into the freeway wall. Her seatbelt and airbag protected her from major injuries, but she does have some interesting bruises going across her chest. Sorry, no photos, guys.

Curious, I asked her how the accident happened and she gave some vague explanation about being on some unfamiliar freeway and being lost. It didn't explain how she hit the wall, but, whatever. It didn't really matter.

I asked the usual questions about alcohol use and she said that she last had a drink 6 months ago. I didn't it much thought until later when I was reading the ER report and it mentioned that her breath smelled of alcohol. A quick check of her labs showed an alcohol level of 0.6. The legal intoxication level is 0.8, which would be fine for her except that the labs were drawn five hours after the accident. It wouldn't be tough to prove that she was intoxicated at the time of the accident. I think that she's going to need to hire an attorney.

I'm a little surprised that she would claim to have not had a drink in 6 months. Someone should tell her that the proper response when questioned is, "But officer, I only had two beers."

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The patient had breath that smelled like a combination of urine and old, vaginal secretions. We hadn't fed her yet, so I can't blame it on the food. I'm also pretty sure that she hadn't done anything naughty; that was just her natural breath odor. Given how badly she smelled, I was astonished that she complained about the way her roommate smelled. Granted, the roommate did have diarrhea and kept flooding the bed, but at least poop is supposed to smell bad. No one's breath should ever smell like that.

The two ladies had to be separated and now some new innocent patient has to be with the stinky breath lady.