How In The World...??

[Emt5233]

Sounds like firedoc has alot of WOW experiences i haven't been in EMS long (only 2 years) but i am sure the longer i am in and the more of these kind of posts i read i should have a small idea what to do when i see some of this crazy stuff.

[JJ919]

Wow yall have run on some fairly crazy stuff. Im on a vollie fire department and in paramedic school, so i haven't run to many what the F&%*s but i look forward to them lol.

[firedoc5]

I know what you mean!!! We responded to a call early one AM to a house for "male bleeding". When we arrived we found this 50"sa aged male lying supine in his bathtub (naked) covered with blood. Blood was EVERYWHERE!!!! In his be ALL the way in the bathroom. Now, this bathroom was SAO small that one person could barely turn around in it. I am thinking, "How in the world are we gonn get this guy out"!!! Well after a second or 2 of thinking (maybe more lolo) we finally decided to lift him out of the tub and we had just enough room to roll his wheelechair up to the tub. All we could do is man handle him out and into the chair backing our way out of the bathroom. He was bleeding from a post opt site. Well we got him transported, with help from our EMR'S. It was one of those that you just stood there with your hands on your hips for a few thinking, OMG!!!!

We too had a gentleman stuck in a bath tub. He had a colostomy bag which had ruptured, YUK :puke: . Took about four of us to get him out. He happened to be one of the rural fire fighter's father who showed up, thankfully. At first after we got him out he refused transport. His son convinced him to go. It's a good thing he did. They had to repair his colostomy in surgery. It wasn't just the bag that ruptured, but it damaged his abdomen.