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Those of you that are first responders, or military or ex, or anyone else that's reliving these experiences, that's PTSD too, even if you don't harm anyone or yourselves, or crawl into a bottle or syringe.  Yet could be an operative term in there.

I'd gently suggest some therapy.

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This thread is pretty intense. Reminds me of one of the most interesting threads I've come across on the Surl 

 

Not sure who Wanker Bob was, but he had the perfect first response for the Surl. Then he committed seppuku at some point later on. Reminds me of the age old question.... 

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The first person I saw die was as a surgery intern at Presby in Dallas. Was called to ER for a patient with a bowel obstruction. Old, recently had his esophagus replaced for cancer. I walk in and within seconds he starts vomiting feculent material everywhere. The nurse called for help, I'm sure I kind of froze. A bunch of people rushed in and he coded and was dead within minutes. Wild that i hadn't thought of that in years until this thread. I did meet my wife in that ER, so that's cool.

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On 3/19/2025 at 2:11 PM, mchookem said:

that sounds like a nightmare to witness. i know there are images you can't get out of your head. I'm sorry.

 

apropos of fucking nothing, i didnt even know where to put this and i can't believe this thread is right here.

i think I just saw a man die in the gotdamn waiting room of my heart doctor. like an hour ago. I'm here for a simple follow up in cardiac unit, dude was walking directly in front of me,  between me and another guy, starts making terrible noises and gasping, stumbling, then just started falling me and the guy were closest and grabbed him to sit, he couldn't speak just these horrible noises, gasps, everybody in waiting room starts screaming, I'm hollering at receptionist that he's collapsed...a couple nurses run out and it's all 'he's crashing! no pulse!' within 90 seconds there are about 30 medical folks surrounding him, he's on the floor they're doing chest compressions, they rolled in a crash cart, shock him...

oh, and also, my mate just happens to currently be in the ER in this same hospital for tachycardia or 'aflutter' or something, he's gong through some weirdness they can't quite pin down it's a teaching hospital so they're trying to figure it out, not a crisis he feels fine except for a resting HR of 136 lol but his pcp sent him here this morning to ER bc they were better equipped.

so like a lot, all at once, and this poor guy is clearly having a heart attack right in front of me. like wtf. I kinda lost my shit standing against a wall out of the way. and then they call me back haha.

(time gap)

anyways, I'm in ER now w/ spouse, my appt went great* except for elevated bp and hr which doc said is understandable. mate is fine just bored and still trying to figure out why he's sitting here with 130 hr.

I've calmed down, asked about the man, 'they got him back!' (they were hollering his name while it was happening so i asked about him, told them I was right there when it happened). this hospital is the fucking bomb, love the docs here. 

and if you're going to have a heart attack, not sure there's a better place than in the fucking waiting room of the cardiac unit at a big teaching hospital! wow.

sorry for typos, I was all stream of consciousness there for a bit.

so how's y'alls Wednesday? 😜

 

 

 

 

*fyi if you have persistent afib I cannot recommend having cardiac ablation enough! wish i'd done it before we went to Europe last year, has made a huge difference. 

 

update...confirmed the gentleman survived and was discharged today. i know that bc i was back at the hospital today bc my spouse has been there since all this happened Wednesday. turns out he was 'technically' in heart failure and had his own emergency cardiac ablation this morning 😕 spouse, not stranger man who collapsed in front of me. 

anyways. new territory here. but we're home tonight ❤️

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