Early Sunday morning Gene got up to go to the bathroom. He was so “dizzy” he could hardly walk. He staggered there holding on to furniture and the walls. He felt ok: he wasn’t flushed or upset on his stomach. He didn’t have a headache. He thought maybe he had vertigo but he wasn’t really light-headed as in dizzy.
By the time I was up, he was feeling some better but still not right. He had to be careful how he stood up and wasn’t sure what or if he wanted to eat.
Something was not right, but what was it. It was worrying him. I took his blood pressure, it was normal. He had not eaten anything unusual or different on Saturday. He had not changed, omitted or doubled up any medications that he knew of. He had removed a tick several days before but that had left only a small red spot. He checked out some things on the web, but nothing resonated. By the time we went to church he was better, but still not totally right.
Saturday morning he had worked around the farm and then we went to see Sight and Sound’s “Moses” movie in the afternoon. He had only done one thing different……
A new, just opened brewery in the village had given him the discard waste from making moonshine to feed his cows. It was a corn mash slurry with a lot of water.
He and Tim had worked with it trying to figure out the best way to feed it. They tried to drain the water off so he could feed just the mash. It didn’t work. He remember that had his hands in the stuff a little and began to wonder if that could possibly be what affected him?
Gene and Tim
Tim stirring the brew!
Yesterday evening he had a chance to talk to Tim and asked him if he had any side effects. Tim said Saturday evening when he tried to watch a game on TV he couldn’t focus.
I went to my friend “google”, and searched “can the fumes of moonshine make you drunk”? The result….
When alcohol vapor is inhaled, it goes straight from the lungs to the brain and bloodstream, getting the individual drunk very quickly. Because the alcohol bypasses the stomach and liver, it isn’t metabolized, and the alcohol doesn’t lose any of its potency.
Folks, my hubby, who has never taken one sip of alcohol of any kind, had gotten drunk on the fumes from the moonshine!!! Moonshine!
Let me tell you, we do not drink and getting drunk is not one bit funny, but Summer and I rolled with laughter. This “staggering” tale is just too good to keep so now you know. It makes me wonder what a breathalyzer test would have showed. Fortunately, he wasn’t drunk-drunk, just drunk enough to stagger. Now I sure wish I had seen the early morning “stagger” show!!!
