Ever called 9-1-1?

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Out of Order

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Maybe we should ask how many times 9-1-1 has been called for her. :)

A saw a log of it...........time only permitted me reading up thru the 1990's though......
 

do1you9love?

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Feb 18, 2012
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Ever had to call 411?:D

I've called 911 trying to call 411. Tried to explain. They came anyway. :hopelessness:

I grew up in a pretty small town where most folks know each other. We didn't have a 911 system until I was in high school. Shortly after we got the system, an elderly lady who's family owns a good bit of the town dialled 911 and asked them for her friend, Betsy's, phone number. They looked it up and gave it to her.;-D
 

Out of Order

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I grew up in a pretty small town where most folks know each other. We didn't have a 911 system until I was in high school. Shortly after we got the system, an elderly lady who's family owns a good bit of the town dialled 911 and asked them for her friend, Betsy's, phone number. They looked it up and gave it to her.;-D

How are things in Hooterville these days? :biggrin-new:
 

shaitan

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Once by accident from work while dialing 9 for outside line and then accidentally hitting 1 twice. Second time for some sh!tfaced dumbwit who was walking around the neighborhood at 11pm on Halloween night, knocking on doors and demanding candy.
Most recently, my wife had to call for a bicyclist hit by car. The guy didn't make it. The lady (a widow of 9/11 firefighter) who hit him was high on drugs (oxy + mj). Now my wife has to go to court as a witness.
 

hipmamajen

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Apr 4, 2008
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I had to call 911 when my mom had a bad reaction to the medication she used to self-inject for her MS. It was meant to be a subcutaneous shot, but every so often she'd hit a vessel with that tiny needle, and the whole dose would hit her blood stream at once.

She and my step dad had just arrived at my house after driving 16 hours, and she needed to give herself the injection and go to bed. It was the first time she'd ever injected into her blood stream, so none of us knew what was going on. She fell out of her chair on to the floor, and was on all fours and cyanotic within 30 seconds.

You guys know I have a touch of the drama, and everything with me is bigger and louder and more exciting. My mom is not like that. (No one in my family is like that, I think there was a mix up at the hospital.) So when I told Mom not to worry because I was calling 911, I fully expected her to get angry and shake her head at me. When she mouthed the words "Tell them to hurry," the whole experience cranked up a few notches on the freak out scale. And medical stuff doesn't freak me out, so you know that was intense!

She told me later that she couldn't breathe and thought she was dying, and she wanted the ambulance to hurry so they'd take her away and she wouldn't die in my living room. Which is really some pretty cool Mom-thinking in action, right? "With my last breath I request that you move me so that you won't always remember this as the chair Grandma died in..."

By the time the paramedics arrived, Mom had pretty much recovered and didn't want anything to do with them. Now, this is the Mom I'm used to, so I felt a lot better. She was downplaying the incident for the guys, and trying to talk them into leaving her at my house when I spoke up and said, "Uh, she turned blue!" I got the angry look and head-shaking I was expecting, but it was too late. They bundled her up and took her to the hospital.

It was weird, we didn't find out for a while what had happened. The EMTs thought it might have been a pulmonary embolism caused by a clot from sitting in the car cross country, but the ER ruled that out.

They did find at the hospital however, that she had pneumonia, and treated her with antibiotics and a nebulizer. She'd been coughing like crazy for a month or longer, but her own doctor kept blowing her off and telling her it was because she smoked cigarettes, and that's just what she should expect unless she stopped her nasty habit. Can you believe that? (She has stopped since, but not because of that azzhole.)

So, we joked that she had to drive from Iowa to Denver to go to the ER to get someone to look at her lungs!

When she finally learned what it was that had caused her to feel so terrible, chest crushing, inability to breathe, etc, it was because she found other people on the same medication talking about it online. Her own neurologist wasn't familiar with that effect until she shared what she'd learned with him and then he knew where to look to find information of his own. God love the internet! (Plus, it's how I found you guys!)
 

AnnaMarie

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Feb 16, 2012
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Talk about blocking things from your mind.

I forgot to mention when we rear ended. Our son was in a booster seat (the tall back ones that look like a car seat). Paramedics said that's why he wasn't hurt seriously. I had called an ambulance because somewhere between the first and third times the guy rammed our car, our son grabbed his neck screaming that it hurt. He's always been a bit of a drama queen (twice he's broken growth plates and nobody knew he was seriously hurt).

Also called an ambulance a few years ago for my husband.
 

skimom2

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My son did, when he was four or five. Just punched in the numbers to see what would happen. He didn't talk to anyone, just pushed those three numbers, and sure enough, they came. I had to explain what happened. The burr-headed Gestapo just looked at me like I was lying, and tried nosing around. Finally they left. I told my son that the next time he 'cried wolf' the cops would take him to jail.
I'd forgotten that my son or daughter did that also (we never did get either one of them to squeal on the other)! He was maybe 7, she was 5 or so (baby was 2). All 3 kids were in the downstairs living room after dinner, Mark and I were cleaning up the kitchen, and a knock comes on the door. 2 cops checking out a 911 call. We had to take them downstairs to see that the kids were okay--sort of embarrassing, but nice to know that they would get there quickly if there was a real emergency (the kids had only been alone for about 5 minutes). The sight of the uniforms and a serious talking to by the officer and their dad about why what they did was wrong was enough to keep them from doing it again :)
 

not_nadine

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Nov 19, 2011
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My 911 call had them looking under the bed and in the closets, after they came and I explained again. Just wanted a phone number! Was supposed to be 411, honest!

Maybe they thought I was in trouble or had hidden a freshly stabbed person or something? I don't know. Good that they came so quick even telling them not to.

ooops.
 

Tery

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Apr 12, 2006
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When we lived in Everett, there was a bar around the corner. Their parking area was one lot over. At 2:00 am things might get interesting and we called 911 a few times. Once, some drunk guy started pounding on our door, yelling at what he thought was his wife. We called 911 and they showed up right away, hauled the guy off. Turns out he was so drunk that he went to his car, passed out, thought he'd driven home and went to the house that looked kinda like his.

Too many incidents with that bar with our daughter under 5 is why we moved out here.
 

GNTLGNT

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Several times:
Baby niece went into convulsions
Tree fell on electric wires and caught on fire
Entire hillside caught on fire
Chased by loose dog
Saw toddler child wandering in streets

Also I have reported several instances of breakdowns and vehicles on fire. Lots of fires!
...but no call about the boogie on the neighbors porch that night huh?...:D