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Originally Posted by Scott Douglas
If they had morphine on the 'bus' they'd have druggies breaking into it every time they stopped to help someone else.
Sorry to hear your wife had to suffer like that.
I once passed a very small stone while we were visiting Sea World of all places. It was painful walking around to say the least. When I finally pissed it out I heard a small 'plop' in the urinal and there was a small round ball sitting in the bottom. A few minutes later I was feeling a lot better.
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That I understand. I have not witnessed much trauma. The closest thing to real trauma was when I was working a race at Talladega in '92 on a wrecker. When we pulled up the emergency crew was cutting Kyle Petty out of his car. He had broken his femur and was not happy to say the least. I heard a lot of screaming profanities. There were 8 wreckers around the track and over 16 cars disabled so we needed to pick up Mark Martin's car (the people at race control ordered the sequence of pick ups), get to the pits and get back to the back straight and get another. So I missed a lot of the drama.
My point is that in an extreme rescue operation it would seem prudent to quiet the victim. I'm also thinking of a remote rescue that needs an airlift operation in the basket all strapped in. For sure a writhing painful kidney stone is not life and death. But don't some first responders do something about intractable pain?
How about once inside the hospital? That's my main beef. What is triage for? Incidentally, my wife is trained in CERT triage, but she's no medic.
Jeff, how did this all play out with you? I know the pain was intense. I now know what 10/10 means.