I have had several calls this week that were less then happy. Had a few cardiac arrests, two stabbings, several accidents, several dead people. It never ends.
The other day we had a man who had his arm torn off. He was on a motorcycle and was hit by a car. The arm came off at the shoulder. We airlifted him. I don’t think he will make it but it is possible I guess. The hospital thought they could re-attach it so hopefully he will live long enough for them to try. He lost a lot of blood.
I had a stabbing last night where the woman made it to a firestation several blocks away. Her neighbor called it in and as I was getting ready to send the screen, the firestation notified us that they had a stabbing victim there. They were going to airlift her but decided she didn’t have a good enough chance of survival so sent her to the hospital instead. Hope she made it but I won’t be surprised if she didn’t. Her boyfriend stabbed her in the stomach.
I had a young man that was found by his brother, dead. Apparently he had had a headache and went to bed but when his brother went to check on him a little bit later, he was dead. Very sad – the brother was hysterical. I tried to calm him down but what can a person really say? Not much.
Had a man who found his wife barely breathing too. The guy I had on the phone was the man’s friend. The guy wouldn’t do as I said and kept commenting that the guy’s wife was so big that it was no wonder she was dying. I wanted to tell him to shut up. He was harrassing me and I finally told him to listen to me because there wasn’t anything helpful he could do other then that. The entire firepod started to laugh. I think the woman actually lived though.
Wish I had more positive stuff to write about but it really has been nasty lately and is certainly only going to get worse as we get closer to Christmas and the New Year.
