Happy New Year! Let’s start 2010 on a positive note. Although this website often shares tragic news, its main objective is to spread information on how to prevent senseless deaths. Brooke Bailey’s friends did just that. They took a close call situation and turned it around in the nick of time. Please check out this MVP story about three friends who saved a life.

Of the many drinking games that occur in a frat house, one of the big events that many like to host is a “beer Olympics”. This is basically any drinking game you can think of in marathon form with teams of 2 guys and 2 girls. Me being the competitive type, I wanted to win, and drank to win. I already had a reputation of being a heavy drinker and would be the “perfect partner” for this game. Well, one thing led to another, and I was blacking out. Of the bits and pieces I remember, I was on a couch in the fraternity house, then in a car, and then back in my sorority house. I had become belligerent and would not listen to anyone. Three sisters drove me back to my house and tried to get me to calm down, but nothing seemed to be working. Not only did I have alcohol working against me, but I am bipolar as well, and bipolar + alcohol = very bad. I refused to listen to anyone and could not stop shouting. Three of my sorority sisters (Lis, Savannah, and Samantha) called the campus police and paramedics. Had they not done this, I could have severely injured someone else or myself. Upon arriving at the hospital, I was told that my BAC was at a .27 and the outcome would have been a lot different had I been left on campus. These three sisters really did save my life.

Brooke Bailey

Georgia Institute of Technology

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