Today, while working as a paramedic, we got called to an assisted living home. The medical emergency? The woman had a leak in her bathroom and wanted it fixed. FML
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Today, I was taking a dump at work at a nursing home. While reaching for the toilet paper, I accidently pushed the emergency button. The nursing supervisors broke into the washroom to help. FML
Today, due to an unforeseen pipe-related incident, I had to shave my legs in my backyard fish pond, while a plumber assessed the damage to my war-zone of a bathroom. FML
Today, while working at my job at a nursing home, I slipped and fell. It wouldn't be so bad if it was just water. No, one of the residents had just had an "accident". FML
Today, I tried to fix a leaking pipe under the sink. I watched a YouTube tutorial and was feeling confident that I could get the job done. Two hours later, half of the kitchen was practically flooded because I forgot to cut the water off, and scrambled to actually find the main valve, then I had to call an emergency plumber, who showed up, laughed, and fixed it in five minutes. FML
Today, I had to use the bathroom really badly in a drug store. After I did a #2, just as I realized the handle on the toilet was broken, a knock came at the door. I tried fixing it for ten minutes, before slipping out the door, to come face to face with two employees coming to fix the toilet. FML
Today, after disappearing for an unusually long period of time, my boss called the store phone while sitting on the toilet. Turns out she'd started bleeding uncontrollably from the arse, and as the only other female staff member, she needed me to go help her. FML
Today, after dealing with tons of drama and working a 14 hour shift, I took a shower. When I stepped out, a weak spot in the floor gave way. While falling through the floor I grabbed the toilet tank lid, which fell into the tank and broke it. Now my leg hurts and the bathroom's flooded. FML
Today, I received a call while at the dispatch station for the Naval hospital I work at. It was a woman having a panic attack. Apparently, she couldn't plug her vacuum in, and was more or less freaking out. I had to take her in anyway. FML
Today, while I was working a customer notified me that the men's restroom need some attention. Thinking that there was just a small mess, I walked into the restroom only to discover someone had taken a crap in the sink. Guess who got to clean it. FML
Today, when I got home from work, my fiancé was finishing up with the plumber who had just installed new fixtures for our shower. I decided that I was going to be the first to break it in. I went to the bathroom, got undressed and went to start the water. The OTHER plumber was still in there. FML
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jolie21 18
What the hell was she thinking when she called you? Can someone be that dumb?
tehdarkness 21
I can't wait till I'm old and I can perform hijinks and pass them off as insanity!
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Comments (74)
jabfinch 9
An emergency? Lol
rorakl88 0
This women most likely has some slight dementia and she called the only number she knew in case of an emergency. To her this was one. I worked in an assisted living home and had this happen more than once. The dispatcher knew what type of place we were called us to verify of there was truly an
BerylliumSphere 3
I once got a call from a mother who was concerned because her baby was smiling too much. . . .
rorakl88 0
Emergency. She didn't know enough to pull her help cord because of the dementia.
Sora_McKain 36
Not all assisted living places have those cords though. The one I work at don't have any help core, not even in the bathrooms. Those poor resident really do need those help cords.
Zsteel 10
I feel you OP, people now a days activate EMS for some ridiculous reasons.
gimmickgame 7
Awwww Lordy ems. I love my little EMT students that are so gung-ho to go I their first rides and then they get these and I just shake my head.
rosieriveter13 3
If you're really that mad that an elderly lady just wanted your help, emergency or not, then I think you need a new career choice. First response may not always be emergency calls, you know
QueenSaru 28
Except this isn't a matter of 'fell and broke her hip, still requires EMTs', it's 'misuse of an emergency number, therefore taking emergency services away from potential real emergencies'. I get bothered by the same thing at work, when nurses scan down orders as a STAT just because the patient wants to go home right then. They fail to realize that if I'm running up their non-STAT 'STAT', there's no one to run up a REAL STAT when it happens. They are risking someone else's life.
tompou6 19
Well look at it this way OP, as long as there are idiotic people in this world which means you have job security
esoom73 11
should've stopped at Today working as a paramedic. I appreciate what you do immensely but being a paramedic sucks major ass. you have to try and keep people alive that are already dead and know that you can't change that.
shrade 1
Do none of you realize what assisted living is? It's old people who can't care for themselves and don't know what's going on
QueenSaru 28
Not necessarily. Some seniors are in assisted living for physical or financial reasons, not all are in AL for mental capacity reasons. But if that's the case, then it's the facility's responsibility to make sure the residents can't abuse the phone system (by making room phones incapable of dialing outside lines, etc). I doubt people are blaming someone who is likely senile for this situation, but rather her caretakers for not taking appropriate steps to prevent the misuse of emergency services.
primadonna9396 16
I agree with you in principle, but elder care is often like watching a toddler only worse. You can literally turn around for 45 seconds and who knows what they will do. Usually homes are understaffed and the nurses are mostly focused on preventing people from falling or wandering that I can't really blame them for things like this.