Have you ever been in an ambulance? (26)
Yes I have. Ambulance crews are unsung heros.
Where would we, and our loved ones be, and society itself.. without them?
Where would we, and our loved ones be, and society itself.. without them?
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Once for myself. The driver morphed into the Princess and the Pea fairytale, not even going over a piece of gravel to keep me and my unborn child from harm.
A shout out to hospital porters, too.
A shout out to hospital porters, too.
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Anyone who puts their lives in a dangerous, life threatening situation everyday deserves our support and gratitude.
Anyone who has the ability to prescribe meds and cut into my body deserves respect and gratitude.
Anyone who can ease pain, stop bleeding, protect against harm DESERVES UNDYING SUPPORT AND GRATITUDE.
However, I dont recommend a 6 hr + ride in an ambulance...... you end up aching in places you didn't know you had.
Anyone who has the ability to prescribe meds and cut into my body deserves respect and gratitude.
Anyone who can ease pain, stop bleeding, protect against harm DESERVES UNDYING SUPPORT AND GRATITUDE.
However, I dont recommend a 6 hr + ride in an ambulance...... you end up aching in places you didn't know you had.
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Been in an ambulance numerous times. But always to accompany a friend or a family member. Luckily never once for myself. Ambulance, paramedics staff always excellent.
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Only once..with a child. Not something I ever want to go through again.. 
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Taralyn: Anyone who puts their lives in a dangerous, life threatening situation everyday deserves our support and gratitude.
Anyone who has the ability to prescribe meds and cut into my body deserves respect and gratitude.
Anyone who can ease pain, stop bleeding, protect against harm DESERVES UNDYING SUPPORT AND GRATITUDE.
However, I dont recommend a 6 hr + ride in an ambulance...... you end up aching in places you didn't know you had.
6 hr in an ambulance? Here it's maximum 30 minutes I think. When you need an ambulance there's always one within 10 minutes distance from your home. Else they use a traumahelicopter. Anyone who has the ability to prescribe meds and cut into my body deserves respect and gratitude.
Anyone who can ease pain, stop bleeding, protect against harm DESERVES UNDYING SUPPORT AND GRATITUDE.
However, I dont recommend a 6 hr + ride in an ambulance...... you end up aching in places you didn't know you had.
But of course the Netherlands is a very small country.
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Taralyn: Anyone who puts their lives in a dangerous, life threatening situation everyday deserves our support and gratitude.
Anyone who has the ability to prescribe meds and cut into my body deserves respect and gratitude.
Anyone who can ease pain, stop bleeding, protect against harm DESERVES UNDYING SUPPORT AND GRATITUDE.
However, I dont recommend a 6 hr + ride in an ambulance...... you end up aching in places you didn't know you had.
Other thing is with policemen who put their life in danger several times a week.Anyone who has the ability to prescribe meds and cut into my body deserves respect and gratitude.
Anyone who can ease pain, stop bleeding, protect against harm DESERVES UNDYING SUPPORT AND GRATITUDE.
However, I dont recommend a 6 hr + ride in an ambulance...... you end up aching in places you didn't know you had.
They deserve respect, but they also got to give respect to other people and often they forget this. Using violence when it isn't needed, and then complaining when someone hits back. Once I was with friends sitting in the park after work, then the police came and told us to piss off. No respect at all, so they didn't got a respectful answer from me either. Next thing, I was arrested and put in a cell for the whole night, and next day they gave me a fine of 250 guilders (it was about 25 years ago, we didn't had the Euro yet).
When I was taken out of my cell they first wanted to question me, and the woman asked me: Can I call you PeKa? I said: You can call me sir.
But they forgot to send me the cheque, so I couldn't pay. So I was invited to see the judge and there I told how it all happened. The judge said I didn't have to pay, as long as I didn't insult a cop for 2 years. lol
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PeKaatje: 6 hr in an ambulance? Here it's maximum 30 minutes I think. When you need an ambulance there's always one within 10 minutes distance from your home. Else they use a traumahelicopter.
But of course the Netherlands is a very small country.
I don't think NL has a traumahelicopter........But of course the Netherlands is a very small country.
My ride was from Gander to St. Johns, return. Need a cardiac catheterization and the nearest cardiologist was in St. John's, 3 hrs away. Had to use ambulance because I was an inpatient.
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Twice. The second time I went into premature labour and had to share an ambulance with an elderly gentleman who was going to have a quadruple bypass. Oh how we laughed that day.
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I have been in an ambulance a few times
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I had one ride, my first kidney stone, I had no idea what was going on, thought my insides were going to rip open 
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Only as passenger with husband. He went many times by ambulance. They differ as to private or hospital or city. Most were decent people. Some really nice and understanding, a couple times, jerks.
I remember one time they sent the ambulance to transport. A woman and two men. One man and the woman were so fat they could hardly walk themselves. I thought how the heck do these people manage to move, lift and all the patients. Can't believe they got hired.
Same with taxi wheelchair drivers. One time the guy was so old and decrepit, I feared for husband AND driver. Couple of times drivers were barely competent to handle riders in wheelchairs.
It is not an easy job to do. And not everyone is willing to deal with all the issues they confront. I know no way I would want the job.
I remember one time they sent the ambulance to transport. A woman and two men. One man and the woman were so fat they could hardly walk themselves. I thought how the heck do these people manage to move, lift and all the patients. Can't believe they got hired.
Same with taxi wheelchair drivers. One time the guy was so old and decrepit, I feared for husband AND driver. Couple of times drivers were barely competent to handle riders in wheelchairs.
It is not an easy job to do. And not everyone is willing to deal with all the issues they confront. I know no way I would want the job.
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Nope never been in an ambulance.
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MysteriousGirl80: Twice. The second time I went into premature labour and had to share an ambulance with an elderly gentleman who was going to have a quadruple bypass. Oh how we laughed that day.
The poor man.Surprised he didn't get a full blown heart attack looking at you with your heels in the air while practicing your breathing.........
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Only once that I can remember.
Was in hospital as a child for an operation,got measles the day before the op & had to be transferred to a different hospital.
Was in hospital as a child for an operation,got measles the day before the op & had to be transferred to a different hospital.
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jimgi: Only once that I can remember.
Was in hospital as a child for an operation,got measles the day before the op & had to be transferred to a different hospital.
Yes, once, but you don't want to know why.Was in hospital as a child for an operation,got measles the day before the op & had to be transferred to a different hospital.
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Mercedes_00: I have been in an ambulance a few times
Just getting laid doesn't count... 
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Track16: I had one ride, my first kidney stone, I had no idea what was going on, thought my insides were going to rip open
OH god owwwch Track ....My best friend said the very same thing, she thought her insides were being ripped out and she was going to die , she had no idea what was going on either..and it hit her on the motorway when she was on her own with two children in the back seat ..pre mobile phone days...------ This poll is Archived ------
Yes, but I can't recall how many times. I used to visit A&E every now and again in my younger days, it never was a pleasant journey though.
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Taralyn: I don't think NL has a traumahelicopter........
My ride was from Gander to St. Johns, return. Need a cardiac catheterization and the nearest cardiologist was in St. John's, 3 hrs away. Had to use ambulance because I was an inpatient.
Oh, we have several traumahelicopters. I think 5 or 6.My ride was from Gander to St. Johns, return. Need a cardiac catheterization and the nearest cardiologist was in St. John's, 3 hrs away. Had to use ambulance because I was an inpatient.
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galrads: Yes, once, but you don't want to know why.
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For me, too many times. Car wrecks on icy mountain roads, various sporting types including riding with my children who inherited by devil-may-care demeanor. Even an air ambulance to the big city when I shattered my pelvis and it was past the scope of local docs. That one was not fun, but three years in PT made it OK again.
I'm less of a risk taker now, but ya never know.
I'm less of a risk taker now, but ya never know.
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Choppers can be a life saver. But, wonder when transfers from hospital to hospital, if they are over used. My past tenant nailed a deer with bike. In local hospital, which is a good one. They called Medflight. Thousands of dollars to send him to UW major hospital in capital city. They mis-diagnosed injuries to start with. Then said he would heal without treatment and sent him home by ambulance, 60 miles. He was home a day and ended up in local again when catheter plugged. Local said NO broken collarbone. And brain bleeding would heal on it's own.
I know if something happened I would say local or none. No Med-flight. We did have a couple crash and kill people too.
I know if something happened I would say local or none. No Med-flight. We did have a couple crash and kill people too.
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I live in a small town in northern Western Australia. The population is about 5000 or so. We have one hospital and a health center. On 3rd June a male forced his way into my house and then proceeded to beat the s hit out of me until I had no option but to give him my car keys. When he left I phoned both the ambulance and the police. I think the police arrived first.
I was taken to the local hospital by ambulance. A doctor then put 24 stitches in my face above my left eye. At some stage that night I was flown by the Royal Flying Doctors Service to Broome about 220km away. I believe that I had lost so much blood that I needed a blood transfusion.
I may live in the sticks but we are serviced by the best medical care available. Here we have Medicare which like the NHS is freely available.
I was taken to the local hospital by ambulance. A doctor then put 24 stitches in my face above my left eye. At some stage that night I was flown by the Royal Flying Doctors Service to Broome about 220km away. I believe that I had lost so much blood that I needed a blood transfusion.
I may live in the sticks but we are serviced by the best medical care available. Here we have Medicare which like the NHS is freely available.
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Once............I was already in the hospital, and they wanted to keep me overnight, but didn't have the equipment needed to conduct the tests they deemed were necessary; so I was taken by ambulance to another hospital in town.
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Have you ever been in an ambulance?(Vote Below)
Often in my country when someone is beaten up in the streets and the ambulance has arrived the crowd gathered is insulting and attacking the ambulance-workers.
That's really stupid and pisses me off. They try to safe lives and are heroes in my opinion.