Emergency situations....

[Timmay]

Has anyone ever been involved in an emergency situation,  especially with a stranger?  I know we as parents, nurses/doctors, etc... we all run into emergency situations.  What I am talking about it just out of the blue incidents.
Yesterday was not a good day for me  ( us) at all.  If it was not one thing it was another.  I had broken a tooth ( front) yesterday morning. So I was lucky enough to get to my dentist yesterday afternoon.  After wards I was on my way home and I was travelling down the street and I see this car sitting in the middle of the road, no lights on , no turn signal, just sitting there.  As I pass her, I noticed she was looking up out of her sunroof.  Finding that odd, as I am driving I look up at the sky and there is nothing there.  I knew something wasnt right so I stopped, backed up to her and she was apparently having a seizure.  I noticed she had about a 2 year old little boy in the back seat and he is just as calm as can be.  I immediately called 911 and I opened her car door and she has her car in drive wtih her foot on the break.  Her hands were clutched and bubbling at the mouth.  What irks me is that I know of at least 4 cars that I tried to flag down and they just drove around us.   What is wrong with people?  I can understand if it was at night in a "rough" neighborhood, but this was at 430 pm.  I finally found 2 people who were first aid admin's and they took over.  She finally came to her senses when she heard the sirens.  Very confused.  I just cant help but to imagine how bad that could have turned out.  I hope she is doing well today.  I didnt even get her name.

So you have any stories like that?

[PowerOfCheese]

I hope she doesn't try driving again if she's prone to seizures. I think the state will feel the same way. Hopefully she's okay.

My only emergency that I can recall (other than my own broken bones, burns and gaping wounds) was saving my friend's life with the ol' Heimlich. We were in our early teens hanging out in a makeshift fort a few hundred yards back in the woods. Next thing I know he's choking on a piece of easter bunny chocolate. The hard part was catching him because he started running around in a panic. I finally managed to grab the big goof and by the 2nd or 3rd pop he was good to go. I mentioned it many years later and he has no recollection of it ever happening.

Ahhh... one more. 15+ years ago I saw a fellow cook shove a chef's knife through the bottom of his hand near his wrist. (idiot was opening up a plastic pickle bucket with a chef's knife with the knife facing the hand holding the bucket) Blood shot about 15 feet, ceiling... walls... It was unreal. I dove at him with a towel and kept pressure on it while someone drove us to the hospital. He ended up being okay but missed a few months of work. That still gives me shivers thinking about it.

I have friends that are EMTs/Firefighters and have had my fill of emergency stories. That's definitely something I couldn't do for a living. Ignorance is bliss.

 

[The Scottish Ambassador]

I have administered rectal diazepam a few times to people who were in status epillepticus.

[PowerOfCheese]

I have administered rectal diazepam a few times to people who were in status epillepticus.

Yeah, me too Scott. Well... it was a little different actually. Not to mention we were really drunk and she was very very hot.




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[The Scottish Ambassador]

I have administered rectal diazepam a few times to people who were in status epillepticus.

Yeah, me too Scott. Well... it was a little different actually. Not to mention we were really drunk and she was very very hot.




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[Timmay]

LOL

[Mikekoz13]

I have administered rectal diazepam a few times to people who were in status epillepticus.

Yeah, me too Scott. Well... it was a little different actually. Not to mention we were really drunk and she was very very hot.




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[time2shine]

Tim,
Good for you for stepping up and helping that woman.

That still gives me shivers thinking about it.

Gives me the shivers just hearing that story.

..and LOL @ the rectal jokes.


I don't think I've ever saved any lives, or been a hero in random situations - other than pushing helpless cars in the snow.
But I do remember being saved from danger from a buddy on a commercial fishing boat in Alaska I worked on about 4 years ago.  We were stacking line as the net was coming in, I slipped on kelp, and fell backwards off the rear of the boat, but caught myself with the inside of my knee (leg pit), and Clint reached down quick, grabbed me by the rain jacket, and pulled me up instantly.  Had I gone in the water, I probably would have either sunk with all my rain gear and boots or just froze.

[Mikekoz13]

Last Summer we were at our local park with the kids. There was a local "Neighborhood Night at the Park" thing going on.

There were a good number of people in the park as well as some Military guys in Humvees and some local EMT's with their ambulances. Clowns making balloon animals, penny games for the kids...... etc.

We were all the way across the park from where all the activity was. We were at the playground with our two kids. There were about 4 or 5 other kids on the playground and one or two adults besides us.

There had been a very short , light rain shower just a short time before we got to the playground.

My 6 year old daughter was going across the monkey bars and as she reached for the next bar her fingers slipped and she fell off..... a drop of about 4 feet from the ground to the bottom of hrer feet. But when she fell , she hit the ground in an absolutely parallel to the ground position. She landed flat on her stomach and got the wind knocked out of her.
She stood up and was sucking for air and trying to cry and i said to my wife, "I'll get her".

just as I picked her up, her eyes rolled back in her head and she passed out. It was then that I realized that she wasn't breathing.
My wife went crazy screaming in a panic. I never thought twice...... I took off running across the park with her in my arms...... right toward the EMT's. As I got about half way to them, I started yelling at them, "I need some help! My daughter's not breathing!".

I closed the gap to them quickly and placed her on the ground in front of them... she was still not breathing. by now my wife had caught up and was absolutely frantic. A crowd had gathered around.... since we're in a small town almost everybody knows everybody. I stood up and shook my wife and told the crowd to back up.

Just then the one EMT said i have to give her mouth-to-mouth. She leaned over my daughter to start and just as she was about to put her mouth to my daughter's..... my daughter started breathing. My daughter sat up crying and reached for me.

It was a scary few minutes and I still don't know how i covered that ground as fast as i did while carrying her. I never lost my composure and even afterwards, as i kept an eye on her all evening, no fear even entered my mind.

But the next morning on the way to work, I was thinking about the whole thing and how very fragile that small life is, and I had to pull the car over. And I wept for a few minutes as the impact of the whole incident overcame me.

[Michael]

Mike... that was a very touching "Daddy Story".  I think most fathers have had some form of scare with their kids; my pop when I almost drowned at the beach as a toddler, my own son when he stopped breathing due to febral seezures.... rough thinks happen (it is part of growing up and being part of the human conditon), and there is no rhymn of reason to it sometimes.  I like to think I am a man of faith,  and all I know is "I don't know."  In the moment when things happen to our most precious of all treasures,  all you can do is act. Glad you kept your head and wits about you!

[Timmay]

Great story there Mike.  I know the the incident was not all that great, but when things like that happen, it sure puts things into prospective.

[SlyHigh]

I wonder about emergencies that we play a part in avoiding without ever knowing.  Say you call someone and that causes them to leave the house five minutes later and thus avoid a crash.

[GASlick]

I've been in healthcare for 18 years.  I've had my share!

[Timmay]

I wonder about emergencies that we play a part in avoiding without ever knowing.  Say you call someone and that causes them to leave the house five minutes later and thus avoid a crash.

It happen......

[Dome of Steele]

I have administered rectal diazepam a few times to people who were in status epillepticus.

Yeah, me too Scott. Well... it was a little different actually. Not to mention we were really drunk and she was very very hot.




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Good Job Tim on stepping in and realizing that something was wrong. 

And for you cheese, I'd recommend the "starbucks" defense.