While I still think it is most likely a medical condition is at the heart of Ara's issues that caused the fall, if she was drugged the police will be hunting a needle in a haystack even if it is a bad pun! The big game probably attracted some strangers from outside the pool world and this seems to have happened in the bar. Again, an "outsider" not part of the pool world could be involved.
I understand that Ara and Jayson were both drinking after the match making an errant drugging more possible but the more I think about it as the situation continues to occupy the forum, I become more doubtful someone from the pool world drugged her or anyone at all drugged her. Alcohol and OTC medicines can not play well together. Many don't know that Aspirin at over recommended doses can become a sedative or tranquilizer. a depressant at any rate. Antibiotics are another possibility. The alcohol alone coupled with moving quickly might be all it took.
The skull damage complicated what might have been a very minor incident. Since the incident became much more serious we are casting about far and wide for a cause. I suffer from dizzy spells now fairly regularly but I have had the occasional dizzy spell, a few a year, for as long as I can remember. I consider them normal, doesn't everyone get a dizzy spell once in awhile? I think further thought and and reflection will reveal that the damage due to the fall is causing us to make a mountain out of a molehill.
Agreed. Medics dont tell people they aren't going to hospital but can tell them they are.
Medics do tend to err on the side of caution. With the covid cases packed in the emergency area and all over hospitals even my surgeon said don't go near a hospital, particularly an emergency room, if I could avoid it. When this seemed like the typical person that has had too much to drink and has fallen the side of caution might have been to not take her to the emergency room.
Of course that required the medic(s) making some decisions well above their pay grade but sometimes they have little choice. A major wreck I worked involved a car load of teenagers. Most broken or bleeding, one girl without a mark on her. She seemed shaken so they sat her down on a high curb just out of the area with the most commotion. Not long after she fell over dead. She had been in the middle of the front seat and when she went forward her forehead hit the radio knob. Knocked a cookie cutter hole in her forehead and there was no swelling, not even an obvious mark. She was the only fatality in the two car head on wreck.
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