Ok now some of you are probably wondering what the hell is this, and this is the place to post your "Twighlight Zone" moments, where you breifly left the house only to bump into someone and end up somewhere doing something you certainly never expected when you walked out the front door.
Here's what happened to me Friday at 5pm last week.......
I left the house for the postal run, managed that fine, managed to not loose any keys,money, attract weirdos or injure myself...jump back in the car head for home expected to be on the sofa drinking tea at 5.25pm..............ah....not quite......
100 yards from Home there are two cars on the near side with an unconscious man lying at the side of the road so being responsible i pull over (and see if i can lend a hand or call the police/ambulance etc) and expect to find a road traffic accident and a mans been hurt.....?????
Nope...straight into twilight zone i venture and its not an accident, 3 women and a child are just staring at this unconscious man fitting on the floor!!!!
Shit i think, hes fitting...maybe diabetic shock, epilepsy.....something worse and hes still fitting on the floor while i'm talking to him while just about to stick my fingers down his throat to check his airway when his eyes open.
So when hes able i load him into my car and take him to my Dr who it turned out he's just walked from that surgery and collapsed less than 100 yards away!!!! It turned out they refused to treat him as he wasn't on their "list" , anyway i swung it so he saw my Dr.....
Further into the twilight Zone.....Dr remembered him in context with Fighting with policemen!!!! And mental health issues, alcoholism and it turned out he was a burgular amoungst other things!!!
So i get him to his parents, i go back to the doctor, get a referal letter to the hospital and then go back to his parents and then proceed to take him to hospital, book him in at reception and then guess what???????
He refuses treatment and says he wants to go home wasting everyones time!
His poor parents were in their 80's one was on crutches and they were clearly at their wits end.
I've decided for me it's safer if i move to an island with just one person on it....me...it's the only way i can stay out of trouble!!!
But on the plus side if this man had a blocked airway, or needed emergency treatment had it not been for me a Dr wouldn't have been needed a coroner would have been.
Would you have ignored the man unconscious on the floor????? Believe me,there was a lot of traffic, and other than 2 ladies and a child passenger nobody gave a damn!!!
Society basically is screwed and somehow i pull over and it's someone else who's troubled!!!!
Spaceship....Beam me up scotty.
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