Oops I did it again,
I think I may be getting to old for this job, or maybe to temperamental. I just can't stand by and say nothing to people who abuse the 911 system. Call me crazy but I thought 911 was for EMERGENCE'S!!!! Not for my head hurts, or I have the flu, and certainly not for I'm Constipated!!! I mean come now lets get real. 911 was meant for true life threatening emergence's. You know I cut my fingers off with a skill saw, or I fell off the roof and think my back is broke. Oh hay this is a good one, My chest hurts I think I'm having a Heart attach!!!
I don't mind helping some one who truly needs me but it really tic's me off when I go racing down the High Way dodging traffic and risking my on safety, only to find some one who slammed they re foot into the coffee table and now there big toe hurts. Give me a brake.
I responded to a call last shift to find a 22 year old girl laying on the sofa complaining of sever abdominal pain. I asked her how long has her stomach been hurting. She says 4 days. I ask her has she thrown up. She says no. I palpate her abdomen and she has pain on the left upper side. Well there is no vital organs there and typically the only reason for pain to the left upper side is Pancreas or you guessed it CONSTIPATION! I ask her when was the last time sh had a B.M. she says 4 or 5 days. O.K. so now I'm Pissed. So I let her have it. I said to her "you called me out here because you can't take a shit! your kidding me right". She says "no I'm not kidding i can't go". I say "what do you want me to do about it". She say " take me to the hospital". I say "why'. She says " so they can give me something to make me go". I ask her has she taken anything for this such as Ex lax or May lox"? She says no "I don't have a ride". I say this is not an emergence and you do not need to go to the Hospital for this. She says well I don't have any money and the Emergency room is FREE!!!!! O.M.G. Are you kidding me.
It's not free I have to pay something called taxes and bust my ass working just so you can go to the hospital for a laxative.
So long storey short I took her. She called and complains that I was rude. I get Rote up. How do you like that????