I’m feeling particularly angry at social media posts tonight. Our local ambulance service posted up never to call them out unless it’s an emergency. Here is where I feel really angry…
At the beginning of August, my mum called an ambulance out for my dad. My dad had COPD amongst various other illnesses and enivitably this would lead him to having uncontrollable coughing fits. Well this particular night my dad couldn’t get a breath for coughing so she called an ambulance out (bearing in mind he had a GP house call that morning too). Anyway when the crew came out…one of the paramedics basically told my mum that what he had wasn’t fatal and she wasted their resources HOWEVER they eventually took my dad to hospital after debating whether they should or not. Once my dad got to hospital the doctor there was extremely reluctant to let him out that night as she was very concerned with his chest and breathing. Waste of resources??? Really??
Long story short, my dad died two weeks later of a cardiac arrest and from complications of his COPD. The condition that apparently is not fatal…
Well my anger has resurrected itself big time!!! Of course, it wouldnt have prevented losing my dad but these people really need to think before they open their mouths as he was far from professional. On the day my dad had his cardiac arrest and died, my poor mum wrestled with herself about calling an ambulance out. I honestly think that if this a****** paramedic was here right now I would be throwing at least a punch and I am not a violent person by any stretch of the imagination.
I wrote a very angry message to the ambulance service then deleted it as all it would serve me would be to get even angrier - if that’s indeed possible!!!. So, instead, I’m sorry, I came here to vent as I’m sure some of you can relate to what I’m going through. It just makes me mad that my family were made to feel like lay about fraudsters from this crew and made to feel they were using the ambulance as some kind of free taxi service.