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From the Desk of John Rourke – June 28th, 2017

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If you have not seen the movie No Escape it is awesome. Action packed. I saw it in the theater when it first came out and now it is on Netflix. It had me on the edge of my seat.

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Thought I had mentioned this but a quick search said otherwise. Picked up a small tiller – like new – for $45. What a deal!

survival garden, tiller, Mantis

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Family emergency – have to cut this short.

 

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  1. SingleMom says:

    This is going to turn into a rant, but I’m still furious. We had a situation at work that reminded me why we all need some medical training. Several days ago, a young man had a seizure in our store. We were lucky in that a nurse’s aide happened to be there also, so she did what she could for him. He was unconscious, bleeding from the mouth, and turning blue. We eventually learned that he was a Juvenile Diabetic, which made the situation much more serious than “just” a seizure.

    I called 911 as soon as he hit the ground, gave the pertinent information, and then went to help. You have to understand that we’re a well-known business on a main drag in the county seat and that uniformed cops and EMT’s are there on a daily basis. The 911 center is less than a mile away, and we’ve been in this same location for several decades.

    So, we’re waiting. And waiting. And when the phone rang, my boss answered. It was the 911 dispatcher. First, he launched a verbal attack against me and then proceeded to argue with her extensively about how our address didn’t exist and that she needed to tell him where we were actually located. This went on for several minutes. I wanted to scream at him to just Google our address and it would give him a map. Thoroughly frustrated and getting desperate, I called our local cops, gave them a brief rundown, and begged for help. In under a minute, we had 5 cop cars and the fire chief. The ambulance showed up some time later, driving slowly and with no flashing lights.

    The authorities advised us to go through them if we have any more emergencies, because this has become all too common with our 911 center. And all I keep thinking is what’s going to happen when someone has an emergency at an obscure address off the beaten path? Why did so many of us have to change our addresses from Rural Delivery to a house number and road number if it doesn’t mean anything? The mailman finds us every day, using 911 addresses. Google shows umpteen websites verifying our name and address, in addition to the handy little map. Yet our expensive, taxpayer-funded 911 center can’t find an established business on a major thoroughfare?

    As it turns out, the young man is fine, but he came very close to either dying or suffering from permanent brain damage that day. He’s younger than my kids, and I felt so completely helpless while we waited. I will be enrolling myself in a First Aid course soon and reading as many medical handbooks as I can, just in case. I’m also writing a formal complaint to our County Commissioners. That 911 dispatcher is going to get someone killed.

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