So I just called an ambulance for someone who is 3000 miles away

[Pakman]

She's probably thinking... WTF?! This guy just stuck me with a $10,000 ambulance service bill.

 

[Legendary]

If she goes to Columbia, the most likely place she'll end up is St. Luke's Hospital on Amsterdam, right across the street from the Columbia campus.

Edit: Additionally, Columbia has a medical amnesty program where, if ambulances are involved, no disciplinary action will be taken against the student. They will only have to go to counseling (which I don't think is a bad idea in this case.)

 

[eakers]

Good for you. I hope your friend is ok. Please let us know.

 

[illusion88]

Originally posted by: dartworth
ATOT911, what is your emergency?!

You know what's funny?
While I was talking to her online I was typing up a thread with something like "Should I call an ambulance?" At the time it was sorta a joke because I thought she was just drunk and upset. It was going to be a fun thread, full of 😕 and other smilies.

AS far as an update goes, she was admitted to St. Lukes last night. I believe the parameics pumped her stomach, but they may have given her activated charcoal. I haven't talked to her today, but I did talk to a nurse and her parents and they assured me she is doing ok. The hospital wouldn't give me any information over the phone, only that she was admitted, and where she was, so I got the rest of the information from her parents. She will spend the night again tonight, I guess to monitor her. Her parents say that there is a good chance for her to go back to school tomorrow.

 

[Mik3y]

Wow. You're a good friend. I just hope she realizes it after all this.

 

[zerocool1]

Originally posted by: Malak
If she is barely saved from death, I suggest you find out whoever the 911 operator was you first talked with, and GET THEM FIRED. Their job is so simple, and so important, there is no excuse for that.

yea, really. I hope she ends up alright.

 

[DanTMWTMP]

:thumbsup:

 

[wfbberzerker]

wow, good for you. i can honestly say i don't know what i would have done in that situation, but you obviously did the right thing.

bravo.

 

[Specop 007]

Originally posted by: FallenHero
Foaming at the mouth eh? You do realize that some people can actually get so drunk they cannot take care of themselves? You also realize she has been mixing medication and alcohol, a combination which has an unknown effect and if it induces sleep, is most defenantly a huge depressent (besides what alcohol normally does.) I'm very glad you aren't on my campus, we would have had several deaths if people had the mindset like you.

Of course I realize that. I also realize out of the hundreds of people, if not thousands, I've seen so piss drunk and messed up on stuff I cant even pronounce, I can report absolutely zero deaths.

Which means I'm glad I'm not on your campus either, since i hate partying with people who set out to party themselves to death. Which is obviously the case based on what you've said.

 

[GeekDrew]

I seriously think that a directory of all of the DID numbers that local 911 calls are routed to needs to be publicized. I know of several instances of this happening (and I very nearly needed something like that tonight).

 

[cavemanmoron]

Originally posted by: illusion88
Ok this night is ****** up.


So I get this IM from a good friend of mine from High School. And she tells me that she is really drunk and has been taking pills. Immediatly I call her. She doesn't pick up. So I talk to her online, and she seems fine, really depressed. So we are talking, and I notice she is starting to type funny, misspelling, lots of typos. And she logs off. Of corse this sets off red flags so I try to call her again. After three attempts she picks up and can only mumble.

While I am talking to her on the phone I am dialing 911 on my land line. And the operator doesn't believe me and wouldn't transfer me! (I was so upset with that women), so I call my county dispatch. They give me the number of a dispatch in New York, whom I call and explain the situtation, tehy reroute me to another dispatch that was local to her area (she goes to Columbia University). They told me that an ambulance was dispatched to her dorm.

SO I keep talking to her on the phone, and I told her that an ambulance is on the way. She got really angry, mumbled something and hung up. Thats the last I have heard.

I'm now sitting here trying to reach her but her phone is off. I have absolutly no idea if she is ok, or what the deal is.

Anyone know of a comprehensive list of Hospitals in New York, something close to Columbia? If she ends up in the hospital tonight I would really like to know.

UPDATE
AS far as an update goes, she was admitted to St. Lukes last night. I believe the parameics pumped her stomach, but they may have given her activated charcoal. I haven't talked to her today, but I did talk to a nurse and her parents and they assured me she is doing ok. The hospital wouldn't give me any information over the phone, only that she was admitted, and where she was, so I got the rest of the information from her parents. She will spend the night again tonight, I guess to monitor her. Her parents say that there is a good chance for her to go back to school tomorrow.

 

[DrPizza]

:thumbsup: Glad it all worked out.

 

[BrokenVisage]

Originally posted by: KristopherKubicki
Hmm...

QFT