My Mom is too heavy to lift.
At 6 ft, 260 lbs, Mom is a little more than I can handle when she falls down like she did at 6am this morning.
She rang the alert bell (pressed the button by her bedside that rings a wireless doorbell in my apartment upstairs from hers) and woke me up... I ran around cursing myself for not leaving my keys in one set spot... eventually I got down to her apartment to find her on her knees beside her bed and unable to move.
She asked me to help her up. That was just not on.
Then she asked me to phone the police (!?!) for help. So I dialed 911 and requested an ambulance. While I was waiting, Mom started complaining that she couldn't breathe, couldn't talk easily, turned pale, and went into cold sweats. I panicked and called 911 a second time but by the time I had EMS on the phone again, the boys were at my front door. One of them was familiar from a previous call.
So the EMTs, working together, moved the bed, got Mom up on her feet, and sat her on the bed. Thus began a protracted verbal power struggle between the lead EMT and Mom, as she kept insisting that she had to lie down and needed to do that before she would tell them anything, while he kept insisting that they had to check her sugar and blood pressure before they could let her lie down. I felt a bizarre sense of relief as it was suddenly someone else's job to argue with her (difficult as she is normally, she gets even more fixated in a crisis).
Once she was sitting up her colour--and voice--came back.
It turned out that her sugar was relatively high (she'd had a drink of juice just before she fell) and her heart was at 120 ("better than mine!" said EMT #2) so once EMT #1 had successfully extricated himself from the usual one-sided conversation with Mom, they were able to leave. I stuck around for a couple of hours and made sure she was ok.
She rang the alert bell (pressed the button by her bedside that rings a wireless doorbell in my apartment upstairs from hers) and woke me up... I ran around cursing myself for not leaving my keys in one set spot... eventually I got down to her apartment to find her on her knees beside her bed and unable to move.
She asked me to help her up. That was just not on.
Then she asked me to phone the police (!?!) for help. So I dialed 911 and requested an ambulance. While I was waiting, Mom started complaining that she couldn't breathe, couldn't talk easily, turned pale, and went into cold sweats. I panicked and called 911 a second time but by the time I had EMS on the phone again, the boys were at my front door. One of them was familiar from a previous call.
So the EMTs, working together, moved the bed, got Mom up on her feet, and sat her on the bed. Thus began a protracted verbal power struggle between the lead EMT and Mom, as she kept insisting that she had to lie down and needed to do that before she would tell them anything, while he kept insisting that they had to check her sugar and blood pressure before they could let her lie down. I felt a bizarre sense of relief as it was suddenly someone else's job to argue with her (difficult as she is normally, she gets even more fixated in a crisis).
Once she was sitting up her colour--and voice--came back.
It turned out that her sugar was relatively high (she'd had a drink of juice just before she fell) and her heart was at 120 ("better than mine!" said EMT #2) so once EMT #1 had successfully extricated himself from the usual one-sided conversation with Mom, they were able to leave. I stuck around for a couple of hours and made sure she was ok.
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yikes! so...what was wrong then?
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