A cardiac arrest, four blood transfusions, and stomach ulcers so deadly she was expelling black liquid blood into the toilet – this is how years of binge drinking came back to haunt Kirsten McKenzie as she lay in hospital just weeks ago.Kirsten, an aged care worker in her mid-thirties, was told by doctors that if she hadn't gone to the emergency ward when she did, she would have died the next day.So bad were her ruptured ulcer symptoms, she had a cardiac arrest in the back of the ambulance, and within 20 minutes of arriving at 's Prince of Wales hospital last month she underwent a life-saving blood transfusion.
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