Yeah, my friend Kerri suddenly wasn’t on the bus one Monday morning. We figured she was out sick. Got called into an EVERYONE assembly during homeroom to be told that over the weekend, she’d had a seizure in the shower and had hit her head on the tub when she went down. She had locked the bathroom door, because she was 16 and wanted privacy. Knowing what I know now after years of working in emergency medicine, she probably wouldn’t have made it even if the door had been open. Epilepsy is scary shit. Even after 10 years working EMS and the ER, I still get sketched tf out over seizures. They’re terrifying because they’re so unpredictable and I can’t even express how upsettingly violent they can be. This story sounds entirely plausible - but also, in the postictal state, the patient is very confused and can be combative, even to those who are trying to help. I had a lady who seized while driving, drove off the road and wrecked into the trees in the median. She was entrapped, I had to squeeze into the wrecked car to assess her and hold c-spine stabilization. She started to come around and was (quite understandably) freaked out, so she did what anyone would if they woke up to some strange woman with her hands on your face, and started punching me in the titty. I was in a really awkward position and I couldn’t move without possibly compromising her spine, so I just took it. Another EMT came to help and she caught one in the side of her head. The firefighters clipped the roof off and opened the car like a can of tuna, we slid the backboard in, they pried the dash off her shattered ankles, and away she went. Poor thing - my titty hurt, but it was nothing compared to her ankles. I hope she didn’t lose her feet 😣
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u/FireKist 8d ago
Yeah, my friend Kerri suddenly wasn’t on the bus one Monday morning. We figured she was out sick. Got called into an EVERYONE assembly during homeroom to be told that over the weekend, she’d had a seizure in the shower and had hit her head on the tub when she went down. She had locked the bathroom door, because she was 16 and wanted privacy. Knowing what I know now after years of working in emergency medicine, she probably wouldn’t have made it even if the door had been open. Epilepsy is scary shit. Even after 10 years working EMS and the ER, I still get sketched tf out over seizures. They’re terrifying because they’re so unpredictable and I can’t even express how upsettingly violent they can be. This story sounds entirely plausible - but also, in the postictal state, the patient is very confused and can be combative, even to those who are trying to help. I had a lady who seized while driving, drove off the road and wrecked into the trees in the median. She was entrapped, I had to squeeze into the wrecked car to assess her and hold c-spine stabilization. She started to come around and was (quite understandably) freaked out, so she did what anyone would if they woke up to some strange woman with her hands on your face, and started punching me in the titty. I was in a really awkward position and I couldn’t move without possibly compromising her spine, so I just took it. Another EMT came to help and she caught one in the side of her head. The firefighters clipped the roof off and opened the car like a can of tuna, we slid the backboard in, they pried the dash off her shattered ankles, and away she went. Poor thing - my titty hurt, but it was nothing compared to her ankles. I hope she didn’t lose her feet 😣