Disclaimer: I’m not even upset at your partial joke. I totally get your point.
With that said, back in 1995, I had to ride my bike down the road in the middle of the night to wake a cop up, because we didn’t even own a phone at the time. I was only 13 at the time.
My mom had overdosed on a full bottle of Ellivile (Amitriptyline) and was foaming at the mouth. It took me like 10 minutes to get down the road, 10 minutes to wake him up, 45 minutes for the ambulance to arrive, and another hour and a half for the tow truck to come get the ambulance out of the muddy ditch after they got stuck.
It’s an absolute miracle she lived at all. It would also have saved us lots of risk of losing her if I only knew of something around the house fairly safe to make her vomit the stuff up.
TL;DR - I learned you can’t count on 911 to arrive in any timely manner, especially when they don’t know how to drive a big truck over muddy roads.
I would have actually been better off asking the internet how to induce vomiting than waiting over 2 hours for an ambulance. Too bad that service wasn’t an advanced and readily available thing at the time.
Kids hate talking on the phone so much they’d rather get help from YouTube than call 911.
That’s only partially a joke.
Disclaimer: I’m not even upset at your partial joke. I totally get your point.
With that said, back in 1995, I had to ride my bike down the road in the middle of the night to wake a cop up, because we didn’t even own a phone at the time. I was only 13 at the time.
My mom had overdosed on a full bottle of Ellivile (Amitriptyline) and was foaming at the mouth. It took me like 10 minutes to get down the road, 10 minutes to wake him up, 45 minutes for the ambulance to arrive, and another hour and a half for the tow truck to come get the ambulance out of the muddy ditch after they got stuck.
It’s an absolute miracle she lived at all. It would also have saved us lots of risk of losing her if I only knew of something around the house fairly safe to make her vomit the stuff up.
TL;DR - I learned you can’t count on 911 to arrive in any timely manner, especially when they don’t know how to drive a big truck over muddy roads.
I would have actually been better off asking the internet how to induce vomiting than waiting over 2 hours for an ambulance. Too bad that service wasn’t an advanced and readily available thing at the time.