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 .

I hope you are feeling better OP.
Rest up today 💕

Some people are being total arses on this thread.

I have to call 111 tbh if I have a medical issue because otherwise I'm on hold for 2+ hours to my GP, the phone frequently just cuts off, and they don't allow people to physically visit the surgery to make an appointment any more. 111 can get through to the GP almost immediately on my behalf. I have a chronic health condition so I do need to speak to my GP regularly and this is the only way that works unfortunately.

Also I once called 111 because I had a trapped nerve in my hand and painful cramps (again, couldn't get through to the GP so was hoping they could) and they wanted to send an ambulance! For me to get to a hospital 5 mins walk from me (and I hardly needed A&E for a trapped nerve). I had to argue them round and they were very resistant. So the service differs and nobody should judge the OP for the fact that 111 has decided that an ambulance was needed.

Hope you're feeling better OP.

Fuck me - at least I know the last place to go now for sympathy when ill, alone and probably a bit frightened at 3am.

There are some seriously thick, spiteful people on here. You know who you all are.

Hope you're feeling better soon @stillvicarinatutu

Not read through the whole thread hope your ok op.

Try reading.

Aren't there just. And Vicar has been such a support to so many posters over the years.

Sorry about your dad. Just wanted to say I agree with all of this. Everyone is different when it comes to pain and trauma to their system. I (very stupidly) drove myself to hospital with a ruptured Fallopian tube due to an ectopic pregnancy (I didn't know this at the time). I was on an operating table having emergency surgery pretty sharpish. The doctor was shocked that I had managed to drive while bleeding internally. I also was standing buying toothbrushes in Poundland while in labour and had to be forcibly persuaded to go to the hospital by SIL (I was chatting to her on the phone, in the queue) when she heard how close my contractions were. I didn't even realise they were contractions.

If you were that unwell why did you decline to go to hospital?

Paramedics aren't just a transport service to A&E you know? The main part of their job is to administer urgent care to people who are too ill to make their way own way or deemed at risk of becoming too ill to make their own way to A&E in the hopes of them avoiding being admitted. That's why they carry nebulisers and other types of medication.

OP received treatment from the paramedics.

@SoupDragon I can read she didn't want to leave her dog and wants to go to a funeral.

Neither are good enough reasons to put her life at risk but her call

My son fights for breath wheezing he can't even hold himself up or respond to you trying to ask him basic questions, I can't imagine an adult with the same symptoms could type out long coherent messages.

you do realise that it takes far less breath to type than it does to talk, right? You know how breathing and speaking works...?

I'm sorry for the unkind replies you've had here. Firstly, you weren't at all unreasonable to call 111, nor to decline ED given your very valid reasons. The difficulty is the longer you go without antibiotics, the more chance of the infection turning even nastier than it already is. You can call 111 back, they will try and send an ambulance but you are absolutely entitled to decline the ambulance and ask them for an out of hours GP call back. In the worst case scenario that they send a crew, tell them that you were clear you wanted a GP not ED and ask them to call and ask for a healthcare professional referral to GP (as you may be able to tell, I work in the urgent & emergency care system!)

Oh and and I didn’t call 111 for DH as I knew time was of the essence in dealing with a possible stroke. I dialled 999. I’m not medically trained in any form, just someone who took note of the NHS posters on signs of a stroke.
If 111 deemed an ambulance was necessary then it was.

Hope you’re feeling better today Vicar.

Saying that you dont mean to be mean doesnt detract from how unkind your following statement is, in fact it highlights it given that you know it is horrible and type it anyway.
Being wheezy and struggling to breathe doesnt affect your ability to type, particularly in a situation when you are om your own and trying not to panic, the focusing can actually be helpful and the replies can be essential in keeping you from panicing or at least help you feel you arent alone. Its bloody scary in the silence and dark of the early hours of the morning, the brain and body are capable of many things in those kind of circumstances.
OP hope you are no worse at least this morning but tbh i think you need to make arrangements to get the inhaler and anti-bs today, i dont think you can wait for tomorrow

No read the whole thread yet but from what I have read I'm absolutely disgusted certain posters have turned OP's distressed hand holding into a circus.

Oh @stillvicarinatutu

i hope you’re feeling better, if not now then very soon. You’ve received some shocking replies; you obviously needed an ambulance. Please try and find someone to look after your dogs.

Take care

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Well, let's hope that one day when your son is alone in the middle of the night somewhere, gasping for breath and terrified out of his mind, he remembers your advice to not seek medical help if he's well enough to use his fingers to tap out a on a phone.

"Better to die and decrease the surplus population" comes to mind doesn't it.

OP I'm not a professional but have just had a nasty bout of covid and the GP gave me some steroids. Omg they are game changers I've bounced back much quicker.

Exactly

Some of you should be utterly ashamed of yourselves.

Hope you're feeling better soon Vicar

I really don't have time to be posting on a site all day maybe some you could get a life

and yet here you are, still spouting bile. Maybe take your own advice and get a life.

Fuck sake there are some arseholes on this thread. Take care Vicar and hope you get sorted with some antibiotics soon🌸

Aren’t there just. To think people say Tattle is vile! Some people who have posted on here should be very, very ashamed of themselves. I bet they all tag #BeKind on their facebook as well.

Wankers.

If I was your neighbour @stillvicarinatutu i would offer to look after your dogs so you could go to A&E, I’m sure one of your actual neighbours would too