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 .

Wow, there are some people being real arses on this thread. Vicar I hope you feel much better soon. Please seek help today. It's hard to make rational decisions when it's for yourself and you feel very poorly.

I'm a HCP and you absolutely did the right thing in calling 111 and letting the paramedics assess you. Chest infections can be very serious.

Everyone will understand that your own health has to take priority over the funeral and as for your dogs, could you possibly try contacting a local dog walker/sitter to come a

I've chatted with vicarinatutu many times (under a previous user name), and I wish you a speedy recovery.

Get well soon Vicarinatutu.
You absolutely have done the right thing.

Sounds like DH was with this bug doing the rounds - he had 2 courses of antibiotics, steroids and 2 different inhalers and he's still not fully recovered nearly 3 weeks on.

Can you phone 111 and ask for steroids/antibiotics to be prescribed for you? It took a good 3 days to get into his system and start working. I recognise your name from another thread and you've been an amazing comfort to the OP on that - I hope you feel better soon. And don't lie down!

Exactly! I suffered a severe allergic reaction. When admitted, my heart was at 140 no dea of BP but very high and I was wheezing, fighting for breath and swollen. I could not put a sentence together verbally but I could type perfectly well to my DP and sister who were racing to meet me at the hospital.

I'm surprised no one has told her not to call in sick at work as well, as there is nothing wrong with her.

I hope you can get your dogs looked after and the treatment you need OP. You've done absolutely nothing wrong and I hope you don't take to heart what some of the posters on this thread have replied with.

I hope you feel better soon @stillvicarinatutu It's horrible when you're so poorly and on your own.

Still handholding OP, ignore the faff, hope that you are all right today. Hope that someone could come ASAP for the dogs so that you could get treatment. You are still in the red and you do know. If you do feel bad do call them again. 😔

Thinking of you @stillvicarinatutu, hope you’re doing ok today and glad to see some of the nasty posts being deleted. You know you did the right thing calling 111, and they did the right thing sending an ambulance even if just by that paramedic’s reaction! Do as you’re told and get more help if you need it.

I’ve had to call 111 a couple of times, once they sent me out an ambulance who took me off to A&E while filling me full of painkillers, the other time they listened, knew that they couldn’t help and a GP callback wasn’t going to be quick enough but I didn’t need an ambulance. Instead they were able to find me a number for a specific ward in a hospital that I could call to speak to someone for advice. I did end up in A&E again that time as the situation deteriorated rapidly not long after but was able to find someone at work to drive me there as it was quicker than waiting for an ambulance. I know other people will knock the 111 service due to their own experiences, but they were brilliant for me.

Vicar is one of the posters on here who gives out rational, good advice to anyone needing it, and gives a lot of time to OPs needing support, using her professional knowledge to help as well as her kindness and empathy.

Seeing pp pile on her here is disgusting.

If you are alone in the middle of the night, feeling ill enough to call 111, finding out on that call that you can’t breathe to string a sentence together and that you need an ambulance, and can’t get through to any family then for a poster like Vicar you should be able to get support from the place you have supported so many others for years. Well for anyone, even if you’ve never posted before, but especially for Vicar.

If I’d posted on here when my DH was ill, instead of calling 999 he’d be dead. I would have been told I was being stupid and he could go to the GP. I questioned myself at the time but went with my gut and got the ambulance.

All the nasty posts about ambulance wasting, get a taxi, you’re not ill if you can post, do sink in to peoples minds and when I came to need that ambulance for DH they made me hesitate, they made me question if it was needed and they made me feel guilty. If I had listened to those negative thoughts he would be dead.

Posting these horrible comments isn’t just nasty it’s dangerous. You could be responsible for people not getting help they need, and ultimately them dying.
Not just the OPs, some of whom may well be overreacting but it’s not pp call on that, but also the many other people who read the comments and then question themselves and deciding not to call for help.

Massive handhold here OP. My DP is a police Officer and would be devastated if a colleague was in your position and felt they couldn't ask for help looking after the dogs. Please reach out and get yourself sorted x
Ignore the arseholes here, they're probably the subjects of other threads where people complain about nightmare neighbours!

Great post @Howdoyoulikeyourtea 👏

So, basically. Don't bother with 111 - what do they know? Sort yourself out.

Honest to god - the people on here!

The professionals made the decision. More professionals agreed it was the right thing to do.

What do you know?

And another thing - do you think taxi drivers want to be called for what could be a medical emergency?

FGS!

Thank you. Sadly the pps who need to read it most likely won’t bother.

I don’t understand why people are piling in on the OP. I’m a Dr and would’ve called an ambulance for her, struggling to breathe is not someone I would be putting into a taxi. OP, I really hope you have get seen today. Please don’t wait for your GP on Monday, struggling to breathe, wheezing and dropping sats are not something for your GP to be dealing with. Please, please get someone to watch the dogs and get help.

So why ask if you'd already read the answer?

@stillvicarinatutu Poor you..That sounds terrible.
You must have really sounded/ looked awful for them to have said “ Oh God”
Please take care of yourself- Surely someone can look after your dogs in an emergency like this ?
Did you get antibiotics?
Hope you are feeling a little better now.

Wow.... @stillvicarinatutu I hope you're OK today. I know how worrying and upsetting is when you are unable to breathe properly. Take care of yourself.

Exactly this! You put it much better than I could have done. I’ve seen many posts from stillvicarinatutu and all are helpful, full of knowledge and empathy, so it makes me sad and cross that some posters are so nasty and feel they are capable to diagnose online.

I hope you find somebody to look after your dogs so you can get help and wish you a speedy recovery as it sounds dreadful.

Wish I could 'LIKE' @Howdoyoulikeyourtea 's post 1000 times!

The only thing really that you should be calling a taxi for... instead of an ambulance .....is if you're heavily pregnant (at full term,) and you think you're in labour. I don't think anybody should be calling an ambulance out for that. A taxi is fine.

In fact you can get to the hospital a lot quicker and into the maternity ward using a taxi, than you can waiting for an ambulance for a few hours. Ambulances are for attending emergencies, RTAs, and helping SICK people!