Hand hold -waiting for an ambulance

[stillvicarinatutu]

I can't breathe and my chest is making noises like a deflating balloon 🎈

Rang 111 and didn't expect to be told there's an ambulance coming

I can't get hold of my dd or ds or ex hubby. I'm alone and I do y want to go to hospital as I e 2 dogs here.

I'm meant to be at a funeral Monday. (Hopefully not my own )

I fucking hate hospitals .

Oh bugger. I'm sorry. I misread what you were saying!!! I was all steamed up because of an earlier poster. Please accept my apologies and cake and flowers!

@stillvicarinatutu you may need to get to A and E today. Given how unwell you are, the positive effect of the nebuliser may only be temporary.

I've been off this thread for a few minutes and now I'm dying to know what that withdrawn message said. Also could I have some cake.???

Getting a taxi where I live is nigh on impossible.

Ha, I accidentally misread a poster's comment and rudely told them to read the room, so I asked for it to be taken down. And of course you can have !

On a serious note, does anyone know Vicar IRL to do a check on her this morning? Given how ill she was and her being alone, I'm quite worried she's not posted anything.

I had that on MOnday - went to nurse practitioner at GP surgery same day appointment - she told me my chest was like "a train" and she put me on steroids - Presnisolone for 5 days. I am almost better.

@stillvicarinatutu I really hope you do attend hospital today, you remind me of how my DP has been twice this year - both resulting in week long hospital admissions. I really think you need the kind of treatment you’re only going to get as an inpatient.

Do you have an o2 monitor? With DP it wasn’t immediately obvious how low his oxygen was going (lowest 50% but could hang around in the 60/70’s) - anything under 90 and his decision making became erratic, quite often to his own detriment. I was surprised to find out that hypoxic people are still deemed competent but there you go.

I’m wishing you the best and hope you can get the dogs sorted so you can go and seek treatment asap.

It’s baffling that people think that typing on a phone is the same as speaking.

Are the general public really that obtuse?

Clearly OP sounded bad enough for an ambulance to be dispatched.

@stillvicarinatutu I hope you get your dogs sorted and get the treatment you need- Antibiotics.

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Oh yum! Nice cake thank you! As for your telling a poster off in error. These things happen.

By the way, to the naysayers saying the OP should absolutely not have called an ambulance... About three years ago I had a really bad bout of sickness and diarrhoea. No big deal, you might think. Except five days later I was still vomiting and pooping.

I couldn't even keep water down and I couldn't sit up straight, literally could not sit up, let alone walk. On the 6th day, (after six days of it,) my husband came into the bedroom at 4pm, and told me he called an ambulance, as he was so worried about me, and felt I needed medical intervention/medical help/paramedic assistance. He had offered to take me to hospital, the day before - after 5 days of it, but I refused as I thought 'it's only a tummy bug.'

He had called the ambulance because he was so worried about me and was desperate for me to go to hospital. I said 'no, no, no, I don't need an ambulance, just for sickness and diarrhoea.' And he said 'six days of this is NOT normal, and too late, I called them 25 minutes ago. They'll be here in a minute.'

He knew that if I knew he'd called an ambulance that I would cancel it. So he left it too late for me to do so. It was there 10 minutes after he told me about it. (It was the local ambulance station paramedic team - Nearest hospital is 15 miles away. Local team is 3.5 miles.)

I felt so bad. I thought 'I can't have an ambulance just for sickness and diarrhoea.' I apologised to the paramedics when they came for wasting their time, and they said 'don't be silly, don't be crazy. If you're really poorly - and you feel really ill, and you're not getting better, and you feel you need an ambulance, or your partner feels you need an ambulance, then always call one. You are not wasting our time...'

I went to hospital straight away. And long story short, it turned out to be a very severe case of salmonella poisoning, and I was in hospital for a further three days. It took about 20 hours of me being on a saline drip to fully rehydrate me again. One of the nurses said 'if you hadn't called the ambulance you would have probably been very seriously ill, or worse as it would have affected your kidneys and your liver and your pancreas. God knows what would have happened. Severe dehydration can actually be fatal.'

So to the people saying the OP shouldn't have called an ambulance..... you are wrong. DH called an ambulance for what a FEW of you may say is 'only a tummy bug.' I went to hospital straight away and it turned out I got a very severe case of salmonella poisoning, and could have actually have died had my husband not called the ambulance.

Like the OP. I am in my 50s and it's the first time I have EVER had an ambulance called out for me. So to the naysayers, I say........... PLEASE have a heart! And also think about what you're saying. As I said, the paramedics said ALWAYS call if you are really worried and suffering a lot. (Which was clearly the case for the OP......... And me!!!)

I've been kicking around MN for about 12 years now & never seen @stillvicarinatutu be anything other than kind & helpful to everyone.
As others have said, even if it was her 1st post : if you can't be helpful or kind then don't post surely ??
I do hope you are okay @stillvicarinatutu If you are on your own, but have responsibilities (dogs) & an important appointment (a funeral) you are bound to be worried about those things as well as trying to access the correct treatment in a responsible way. Best wishes to you this lunchtime x

@noeyesbarry have a heart!

It’s so easy to sit behind your keyboard and make judgements.

@WibblyWobblyTimeyWimeyStuff said she didn’t want to waste anyone’s time. Her husband called as she thought she could cope at home.

Ambulances aren’t sent out willy nilly and she clearly required it as she was admitted to hospital.

@stillvicarinatutu I hope you are feeling better, if not PLEASE go to Adoc or ED - and get some help. Honestly you need some help for this, paracetamol will not fix you.

Hello @stillvicarinatutu we hope you're on the mend. Unfortunately, the personal attacks continued after our earlier post and so we're going to close the thread to new posts now.