Comments on: The Waiting Room….. http://kingmagic.wordpress.com/2007/02/20/the-waiting-room/ The Ramblings of a Paramedic Stretcher Monkey Tue, 14 May 2013 10:12:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Dr No No http://kingmagic.wordpress.com/2007/02/20/the-waiting-room/#comment-312 Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:36:08 +0000 http://kingmagic.wordpress.com/2007/02/20/the-waiting-room/#comment-312 Ahh….it really is a thought provoking story and sadly one that happens too often. Guess we don’t see stuff like this in hospital…you’re a lot stronger than us in so many ways, truly the front line….thanks for the reminder about lving life too…I was getting dangerously close to forgetting about it all…

]]> By: ecparamedic http://kingmagic.wordpress.com/2007/02/20/the-waiting-room/#comment-311 Sun, 25 Feb 2007 22:22:39 +0000 http://kingmagic.wordpress.com/2007/02/20/the-waiting-room/#comment-311 It’s been happening all too often round here recently.

SD

]]> By: bebe http://kingmagic.wordpress.com/2007/02/20/the-waiting-room/#comment-310 Sun, 25 Feb 2007 14:01:09 +0000 http://kingmagic.wordpress.com/2007/02/20/the-waiting-room/#comment-310 I couldn’t find how to email you back. I got your comment. Thank you. Yes, when I cried everyone was ok with it. I was working with two guys so they were better emotionally than I was. It was hard for them, too, but it being my first and I personalized it alot.

Barry held me and let me cry on him. It wasn’t more than a couple of minutes. Then we went out to the truck to take our equipment out and wait on the coroner.

The rest of the day was kept busy with seizures, transports and the like.

]]> By: Petrolhead http://kingmagic.wordpress.com/2007/02/20/the-waiting-room/#comment-309 Sun, 25 Feb 2007 01:48:40 +0000 http://kingmagic.wordpress.com/2007/02/20/the-waiting-room/#comment-309 Wow, powerful stuff. Sounds like a peaceful way to go though. Better than jumping off Beachy Head. When I die I want to go when I’m washing my car or something. I love my car, so it would be a very apt way to die.

]]> By: bebe http://kingmagic.wordpress.com/2007/02/20/the-waiting-room/#comment-308 Sun, 25 Feb 2007 01:43:37 +0000 http://kingmagic.wordpress.com/2007/02/20/the-waiting-room/#comment-308 I’m very new to this job, 2 weeks to be exact, and I went to my first dead body. A 62 yoF died of heart problems. She’d woken up but couldn’t get up.

I didn’t know it would affect me so much, but I had to go outside to cry. I wrote about it on my blog. I had to write to get it out of my head.

Thinking of you. I hope you had a peaceful day at the park.

]]> By: drunkenspaniel http://kingmagic.wordpress.com/2007/02/20/the-waiting-room/#comment-307 Sat, 24 Feb 2007 11:16:51 +0000 http://kingmagic.wordpress.com/2007/02/20/the-waiting-room/#comment-307 Its odd, really. We’re so much more shocked when someone dies mid-stride, aren’t we? A friend of mine who was about 53, went home after work, and put his dinner on the hob. Once he’d seen to the pots and pans, he went and sat down in his armchair to watch a bit of TV while his meal was cooking…….

….. and that’s where he was found 24 hours later. Sitting, watching the TV, his remote control in his hand, but dead.
No drama, no trauma.
Everyone was utterly stunned.

If he’d been hit by a car, we’d have been shocked too, but, somehow, not in the same way.

]]> By: Iain MacBain http://kingmagic.wordpress.com/2007/02/20/the-waiting-room/#comment-306 Fri, 23 Feb 2007 22:42:49 +0000 http://kingmagic.wordpress.com/2007/02/20/the-waiting-room/#comment-306 Thought this was good. to be encouraged

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/patientrefusl/

]]> By: uphilldowndale@work http://kingmagic.wordpress.com/2007/02/20/the-waiting-room/#comment-305 Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:32:02 +0000 http://kingmagic.wordpress.com/2007/02/20/the-waiting-room/#comment-305 I held my breath whilst I read your post; I would not have made it as far as the garden before I threw up. Powerful writing.

]]> By: Sergeant Says http://kingmagic.wordpress.com/2007/02/20/the-waiting-room/#comment-304 Fri, 23 Feb 2007 01:59:30 +0000 http://kingmagic.wordpress.com/2007/02/20/the-waiting-room/#comment-304 Hmmm. Sudden deaths. I’d like to think I’ve seen enough to not throw up but you are quite right about that smell. It never changes, and you can recognise it a mile away, and you have to wash all your clothes. I didn’t do that once and literally reeled back when I opened the door of my locker the next day and was just hit by the stench of death again.

]]> By: Nick http://kingmagic.wordpress.com/2007/02/20/the-waiting-room/#comment-303 Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:36:15 +0000 http://kingmagic.wordpress.com/2007/02/20/the-waiting-room/#comment-303 Crikey, what a moving story. Thank you for sharing it with us.

And yes, the park does sound like a good option given the circumstances.

Regards
Nick
http://nickhough.blogspot.com

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