Comments on: Nighty, Nighty Nights…!!!

By: bendygirl

bendygirl — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 15:03:44 +0000

Thank you KM, and thanks for the blogroll. I think there is something about constant trauma that alters your perceptions and makes it too normal, it’s like I’d be embarrassed to call you guys out for what for me is commonplace (although that accident I wrote about was unusually severe) so I, and all my friends tend to forget that for most people dislocating multiple joints, falling badly, etc aren’t ‘normal’.
BG

By: Stonehead

Stonehead — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 19:17:48 +0000

Bendygirl’s accident, pt 2 at A&E – http://benefitscroungingscum.blogspot.com/2007/08/part-2.html

I have a bendy friend, so I know a little about what Bendygirl describes and people’s reactions to the condition.

By: Kingmagic

Kingmagic — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 19:13:37 +0000

Bendygirl…all I would say after your accident is that you truely deserved an ambulance. We may not know everything about everything but we do know about breathing diffs due to illness and/or trauma.

Out of interest what did they do in A/E?

By: Bendygirl

Bendygirl — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 10:40:49 +0000

Unbelievable! People like that guy just astonish me, but I do think it’s something to do with all the media hype about going to your doctor for every tiny cut and scratch pushed on many tv programmes/papers/magazines etc. People somehow think they are entitled, and the majority still think they’ll be seen quicker if they go via ambulance.
I’m one of the ones who doesn’t call 999 (and if charging was introduced at A&E, GP etc would really suffer) last time I had a really bad accident I didn’t call an ambulance even though I was having breathing problems, like I said in the post I wrote about it http://benefitscroungingscum.blogspot.com/2007/08/part-1-accident.html I just couldn’t see the point when there were 2 other people with me, it was quicker to drive, and it wouldn’t be reasonable to expect paramedics to know about Ehlers Danlos Syndrome.
Lots of people were shocked that I’d been driven in by friends, but as I usually drive myself in with any dislocations I can’t reduce, I just couldn’t see what the fuss was! Bendy Girl

By: Emma

Emma — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:05:59 +0000

Pop over to mine I have something for you..xx

By: mousie

mousie — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:16:51 +0000

My weekend at work was full of exactly this type of fuckwit.
Good job KM, thanks!

By: Emma

Emma — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:36:57 +0000

I agree with Jo on the charging thing, it would be great if it happened but in all fairness I think we all know the main culprits would somehow be exempt through lack of funds/benefits, so it would deter the genuine callers.

I do think kids should be taught from a young age though how to deal with 999 calls..x

By: Jo

Jo — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:35:17 +0000

Education would have to be done from a very young age, and would have to counteract the “I pay my taxes, therefore I’m entitled…” influence. But it would be good to see it appearing on the curriculum – I’ve never had to call an ambulance, and hope that I never will, but, even after being in the Red Cross for a number of years, I’m still a bit confused about what actually happens (we were always taught to ask “How long will the ambulance be?”, and it was only a few years ago when I met my first ambulance driver that I was told that the answer would be “20 ft…”) when you dial 999 (I know that when you call the police about a genuine emergency (local gang of kids climbing onto our flat roof, and abusing us and our elderly neighbour. We thought that they might be armed), they call you back three hours later to ask if it is still an emergency, and say that they will send a PCOS round the next afternoon…)

The issue with charging is, as has been pointed out on a number of blogs, is that it will only deter those who should be calling an ambulance anyway but “don’t want to make a fuss”

By: traineeparamedic

traineeparamedic — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 23:13:11 +0000

We have recently been to a doctor’s urgent transfer to hospital in the middle of the day who said he should have gone into hospital the day before. The ambulance was booked at 8pm and duly turned up at 9pm, but when the crew arrived, they were told that he didn’t want to go in that time as it was to late. This was incredibly annoying and these sort of situation’s like your’s should be billed 100%. People seem to lose sight of the word ‘Emergency’ on the side of the vehicle!

By: uphilldowndale

uphilldowndale — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:11:29 +0000

‘Thick…stupid…ignorant…arrogant…he did not appear to be any of these’

I would settle of spoilt and indulged brat who has ‘grown up’ (well got physical bigger) into a spoilt indulged adult, that thinks everyone is at his beck and call….. was there a worn out pair of parents lurking anxiously in the wings by any chance?
He made have made a three 9′s call, but should he have got what he asked for?

Can any WordPress blogger tell me how to fix my ‘flicker widget’ please!
I updated my photos tonight, and now I can only get other folks photos in my side bar, not my own agggggghhhhhh! I’ve broken it and I don’t know how!!! best call 999

Sorry, KM, hogging your space!!