To cancel ambulance

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Im sitting here waiting ambulance for my mother.

She is rolling cigarettes ffs

Stupid fucking 111 system.

More information needed.

Why is the ambulance coming?

Apart from the cigarette why do you want to cancel it?

Who called it and why? But yeah sounds like it could be cancelled.

I think we're going to need a bit more information really. What's going on and what symptoms did she give the 111 people?

“Stupid fucking 111 system”

Why did you use if it you’re going to be so ungrateful and rude?

Because of the questions 111 ask and my mother manipulating me into calling 111.

Call 999 and see what they say

Well, she won't be able to smoke in the ambulance or in the hospital. Why does she need an ambulance?

Its a long story and im not ungrateful rude she is.

Does she need an ambulance? I take it you think not

But has she done something like slitting her wrists?

Dh is a paramedic, just checked with him, he says on the info given ‘please do call 999’. But that’s only on the info you’ve given!

Well, people can’t really say if you are being unreasonable or not then.

I have a friend who’s mother is regularly taken to A&E by ambulance, never necessary, all because of the questions 111 ask.

“Do you have chest pains?”
“Ooh yes” (had some indigestion last year)
Etc.

You get the picture.

Sorry phone battery low. Will update with details itsso complicated

I recognise this OP. She’s not ungrateful to the NHS. She’s frustrated by a manipulative mother who is massively attention seeking.

Shrs screaming at me about a dr she doesnt like.

I have had need to call 111 twice in the last week both times they suggested an Ambulance and would arrange one for me. Both times I said it was ok I would make my own way there. Just because they suggest an ambulance doesnt mean you have to take it. The system is as good as the people who use it.

My DM was swearing at me, smoking a fag and knocking back beer whilst I was waiting for an ambulance. Turns out she was having a heart attack.

What is wrong with your DM?

Just let them take her. For her mental health if nothing else to be documented

Yes it's a waste of resources. That's on her though

Depends what you originally called 111 for. Did you just want advice? A gp out of hours appointment? A prescription refilling?... if you'd still prefer any of those outcomes then call 999 and advise them of that. The system as we all know is under immense pressure and there is little less infuriating than responding an ambulance to a patient that never actually wanted or needed them in the first place.

At the end of my tether with a mother screaming help me get me out. Then i have to answer questions to rule out sepsis. Etc.

Marscapone you hit the nail on the head

I might well have this wrong, but is this the DM who was "determined to win" over being assessed for residential care? And who insisted on remaining at home with her very ill DB looking after her if you wouldn't?

If so, what does she mean about "help me get me out"? Is she actually in a home now?