We Have A Drug For That

We were toned out for a woman not feeling well. This seems to be a catch all from dispatch. If they can't figure out what's wrong they must just not be feeling well.

On scene we found an 75 year old woman that, surprisingly enough, wasn't feeling well.

She was fairly typical as far as her medical history. Some hypertension, high cholesterol, diabetes, low thyroid....the usual. She had been taking 8 medications for her ailments and hadn't been having any issues.

The old lady (yes mom and dad, 75 is old) had gone to her primary care physician a couple of days earlier for her annual physical. She was unclear as to what new medical problems her doctor had discovered but she left his office his office with 6 new medications.

Like a good patient she went and got all of her new scripts filled. Unfortunately she either had a bad reaction to one of her new medications or the combination of one or more of  them. Now she has to go through the process of trying to find out what drug is screwing things up.

Another reason to try and live more healthy now. But in case you don't want to or it's too late for that don't worry, they probably have a drug for that too.

Explosive Bodily Fluids

Just about the time I was seriously thinking about going to bed the tones sounded. We were dispatched for a 75 year old female feeling ill.

We were met at the door by the granddaughter of the patient. She led us to the back of the house where her mother was attempting to clean her grandmother. We were informed that our patient had been feeling lethargic all day. About an hour before we were called she had started having explosive diarrhea and vomiting. The daughter apologized and frantically tried to change her mother's diaper. We told her to calm down and to take her time.

A couple of weeks prior my engineer had been to our patient's house on a medical aide. She had apparently suffered an MI and had recently been released from the hospital. Even with her serious medical history we figured that it would be better for all involved if she were cleaned up a little before going to the ER.

20 minutes later my head found my pillow, but not for long.....