So what was different this time?
The fire started in a kitchen, but this time fire sprinklers kicked in and fireproof doors designed to retard the flames from spreading did their jobs. There were no illegal modifications to the building, and there were no highly flammable materials used as construction or insulation materials. The firemen also arrived and started to douse the fire within 4 minutes of the alarm bells ringing, while all 300 patients were able to be evacuated from the building timely by 400 hospital workers including doctors and nurses using the fire escape route which were not blocked. This hospital also proudly mentioned that the hospital in cooperation with the fire department did not neglect to do their fire drills multiple times annually.
They put me in the Squid Ward.
Fucking legend
NOTE: ANY JOKES ABOUT THIS ORPHAN BEING MORE USEFUL THAN STEWART DOWNING WILL BE DOWNVOTED FOR LACK OF SPORTSMANSHIP
I've been sitting on this since the weekend. On New Year's we attended a party at my sisters house for the evening. We have pretty much the same circle of friends so everyone was there. There was an accident on the night where an ambulance had to be called. Nick (our friend) was jokingly pushed from behind by another friend. He fell and his arm went right through my sister's glass table on the outside patio. That table has always been a flimsy piece of shit. It shredded his arm and it was bleeding really badly. My boyfriend, got a cut on the palm of his hand when he was trying to help Nick get his arm out. The paramedics came and were very focused on the dude was a walking blood fountain. I can't express enough how much blood there was. The male paramedic looked briefly at my boyfriend's hand and said it may need stitches but probably not. When I offered to take him to the hospital, the paramedic agreed because in his words "It's not that urgent." And he told us just to go to ER.
Nick and his girlfriend went in the ambulance to the hospital. And when we were in the waiting room for my boyfriend to get his hand looked at. I got a text from her saying they were taking Nick into surgery. He spent a few days in hospital and was sent him not that long ago.
Before I continue I need to say this so you get the person I'm dealing with. My boyfriend has never been to a hospital for himself. He's never broken a bone or needed stitches. This was the first time he's ever experienced a situation where he was hurt and needed to go hospital. He comes from a well off family and is use to instant gratification.
My boyfriend went on a tirade to me yesterday that he wants to lodge a formal complaint over how long it took for him to be seen when he had a injury. I've banged my fucking head into the wall trying to get it thought to the idiot. But he just doesn't seem to understand triage or how paramedics work. He wants to lodge a formal complaint because in his mind. Because they were hurt in the same incident, they should have been seen at the same time. I know how fucking stupid that is. Believe me. But he's upset because the paramedics ignored him when they got there. He's upset because the tirage nurse told him to wait. And we sat there for a while waiting to be called.
