An HVAC power plant job I once had at a Native American gambling casino required unannounced drug testing at random.

Called down for a test, I was unable to go for over an hour and I started drinking 8 ounce cups of water in order to increase the urge. If you do not deliver within 2 hours, it is considered a refusal and grounds for termination, and at $20.00+ per hour, I was not about to be terminated. I put down about (6) 8 ounce cups of water in about 30 minutes before I could finally urinate.

About 15 minutes later, I was in the toilet with horrible pain in my abdominals, sides, kidneys, back, rectum, urinary tract, neck, with accompanying nausea and dizziness. Those of you with medical backgrounds may be able to tell me why water would do that, but I believe it was the sudden ingestion of water that created the problems. After a lot of gyrating on the toilet seat, moaning, swearing, and sweating, it finally went away.

We had an incident in West Milwaukee, Wisconsin quite a while ago where a mentally ill young man actually drank so much water that he died from it. Not drowning, but the water did something to his blood that caused the death. I still cannot get people to believe it happened, but maybe those of you in the medical arena have a link that references that. It was over 30 years ago in West Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

I find it hard to believe based on what I know that the Slovak man could have done what he did and still be alive to tell about it.

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