| | I have been volunteering at the ER lately and have seen one crazy thing after another
One lady came in as mentioned before, with a knife stuck in her hand, bleeding unable to stop, but that's already been covered
I was training another volunteer and he asked if it gets quiet enough to read a book. I told him not usually, within 5 minutes, the place went from semi relaxed to packed beyond belief. One female pulled in, you know the type when people accelerate and then brake heavily at the last moment to show hurry, and informed us that she was having a heart attack. One, if you are having a heart attack, pull over and call 911, dont drive, those heart attacks dont care if you're driving or not. Two, dont worry about parking the car, you have bigger problems. Lucky for us though, she was just panicked, and her heart was racing.. but not attacking. As her car was cleared another truck came in, pulled in the same way, and once it finally stopped, a male got out and said something was wrong with his sister, she got in the car and started sweating and being irresponsive. Stroke. I had to grab a wheel chair, flag another nurse and have him help me move this lady on the chair and then bring her in
2 cases withing the 10 minutes, but not bad, although the non critical cases were pilling up, people were complaining that their migranes were having to wait. Word of advice, please have more than a migrane when you come in, you'll be pushed to the back of the line if you do come.
And that's when the shit hit the so called fan. 2 other people showed up to what seemed like an empty ER room, and said simply 'I need help'. Their mother (this person was in their 40s) was having her own heart attack.
All in all a fun day
The next week though, there was friggin No one. Someone showed up because they fell playing basketball, and they knew a nurse. That was it. Me and the security guard stood and talked about people who drive expensive cars
Welcome to the ER
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| | Posted 4/28/2008 11:31 PM - 27 Views - 2 eProps - 2 comments
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