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Story 2

Not my story!

So, this just happened last night, and I still can't believe someone would do this
I'm a 30M and a paramedic. I've been in EMS for the past 8 years, and I absolutely
love my job. Last night, we were dispatched to an 75 year old female who fell at
home. The patient stated that she tripped over her carpet and hit her head when
she fell. We arrived on the scene and noticed that the home was a duplex with our
patient's door on the right and her neighbor's door on the left. We made our way
into the home and found her lying on the floor.
The woman was awake and breathing. We started asking her the standard
questions (are you ok? Does anything hurt? Do you remember the fall? Ect...). She
stated that she has a pounding headache and that she remembers walking to bed
and then waking up on the floor. In my field, that's a pretty big red flag. We notice
that she's got a pretty good lump on the side of her head and a big bruise starting
to form already.
Noticing the bruise, I asked her if she was on any blood thinners. She said that
she was on blood thinners for a previous stroke she had a few years ago. We
urged her to let us take her to the hospital because there was a possibility that the
fall could have caused a bleed in her brain, and she should go to the hospital to
get some scans done. She agrees, and we begin to package her up.
We applied a c-collar around her neck in case of any c-spine (neck) injuries. She
denied any neck or back pain, so we lifted her up and placed her on our stair
chair. A stair chair is exactly what it sounds like. It's a chair with tracks that we use
to carry patients up and down stairs.
As we were getting her out of the house, her neighbor whipped the door open
and started yelling about how she couldn't sleep with all the lights and noises
outside. The sound of the stair chair apparently woke her up, and she was not
happy about that. My lieutenant walked over to her and apologized and said that
we were dealing with a medical emergency and that we would be leaving soon enough
The Karen neighbor then noticed that our patient was her neighbor, and that's when she started yelling about something totally different. The entitled neighbor
started yelling,
"You can't take her to the hospital! I have errands to rin tomorrow,
and she needs to watch my kids!" My lieutenant again reiterated that we were
here for a medical emergency and that her health is more important than her
errands. The entitled neighbor let out a loud huff and then slammed the door in
his face.
We thought that was the end of it.
. We were wrong. After a few minutes in the
back of the ambulance, we told our lieutenant that he could take the engine crew
back to the station and that we were going to be heading out in a few minutes.
After we checked her vitals, got an IV going, and started giving her IV fluids, my
partner got out of the back and went up to the driver's seat. About 5 seconds
later, the back doors of my ambulance fly open, and who do I see? The entitled
neighbor, of course. Apparently, she needed a few minutes to get dressed before
coming outside.
I yell at her, "What the hell do you think you're doing?" She yells back, "I told you
that she can't go to the hospital because she has to watch my kids tomorrow!"
She then starts trying to pull the cot out of the ambulance with our patient on it.
Luckily, she didn't know how to unlatch the cot and couldn't get her out. Our
patient says, "I can't watch your kids tomorrow because I fell, and I might be
having a stroke." The entitled neighbor yells back at her and says, "You're fine.
You dont need to go to the hospital because you're not having a stroke!" My
partner then hears the commotion and goes to the back of the ambulance. He
pulls her off the cot, and I slam and lock the doors. You could tell that the entitled
neighbor was about to become combative.
It's important to know that either the police department or the sheriff's
department responds to our calls, too, when it's at night. Because of where we
were, it took a few minutes for the sheriff's department to show up on scene, but
he got there just in time. I couldn't hear much through the door, but I saw the
officer get out of hus cruiser with his taser drawn. My partner runs back up to the driver's seat and starts heading to the hospital.
The last thing I saw through the back windows was the entitled neighbor
stomping towards the officer and then her hitting the ground after being tased
(super satisfying to watch). I was talking with my patient and asked what that was
all about, and she said that the entitled neighbor will just drop her 3 young kids
off at her house and leave for several hours at a time with no notice. My patient
had no idea that she was supposed to watch the kids at all because, again, the
entitled neighbor never even gives her a heads up about these things.
Like I said in the beginning, this happened last night, so i don't have any updates,
but I'll post an update when I learn more.
Small Update: My contact at the hospital said that the patient does not have a
bleed. She does, however, have a really nasty looking bruise on her face from the
blood thinners (it's incredibly common). She will most likely be going home soon.
There is no update on the neighbor. I probably will not hear anything back until my
next shift day.
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Well that was the end of this story I'll post a part 2 of this story