As we sat there on the warm cement waiting for help, Elizabeth became calm and coherent and I felt grateful that the situation wasn’t life or death — at least not in that moment. — via healthing_ca Iamlisamachado healthing paramedics mentalhealth
Our hospitals have sunk deeper into chaos with emergency departments that are overburdened by staffing shortages. GETTY“Vomiting, distress, those things.”I had been driving home around 6:30 p.m. on the very busy Lakeshore Boulevard when the cars in front of me starting swerving to the left to avoid something in the right lane.
#AskAlyson: When a family member is in crisis, family counselling can be critical to getting help in a supportive way kit?” asked the dispatcher on the phone, referring to Naloxone, the medication that reverses an opioid overdose. I repeated the question and looked over at the Loblaws guy — he looked confused and then shrugged.“Ok, we are on our way. We take this stuff very seriously, oh and don’t give her food,” the dispatcher said, at the same time as the woman reached for the granola bar, tore it open with her mouth, took a bite and then spit it out, hurling the rest of it angrily into the traffic.
“You know that I have no skills in this area,” I said, a little sarcastically, wondering out loud how much longer it would be before he arrived. He described heavy traffic coming in from the west. I thought about asking him to send someone from the east — it had been more than 30 minutes and I was feeling desperate. “Just do what you can to keep her there,” he said.
She moved a little closer, copying me as I sat cross-legged with my hands on my knees, and with every breath I took, she took a deep breath — “in through the nose, out through the mouth,” I repeated over and over for what seemed like forever. And so Beth and I waited, sitting cross-legged on the ground, breathing loudly as people walked by, hauling their groceries and not paying much attention to us. With each breath, Beth became more coherent and calm. She told me that she was from Manitoba, that she had studied physiotherapy in university, but had met up with “bad people.” I asked her if she wanted help. I described friendly doctors, and a clean bed to sleep in, and help with the voice that said mean things. She smiled.
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