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Ginlyn0
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(NBR)Had to call 911 at work this morning
Ginlyn0
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I've been trying to get my mind off of it since I left work earlier but I just got an update and I can't stop thinking about it. It sucked. It's a lady (I'll call her S) that works in the department next to mine and she's been at the company about 6-7 years so I've known her that long.
Basically what happened was I was sitting at my desk (we have half wall cubicles) and I hear a bang into the side of my left wall (the side that faces the aisle headed out to the hallway). Then I heard what seemed like laughing. The girl that sits behind me stood up and so did I and we both looked at each other like what was that? And we both looked towards the wall (we can see over them while standing) but we were looking for a person standing up. We both immediately thought and vocalized that maybe it was the AVP under my boss's son who is newish to the company, young and sort of a joker and that maybe he hit my wall, laughed and snuck off. We sat back down. Then about 1 minute later. I hear that AVP (who's office faces that aisle) say OMG someone call 911. I get on the phone and climb on top of my desk where I am sitting on it and lean over the wall. And I see her having a seizure (eyes rolled back, pee on her jeans) and then she stops breathing. 2 other coworkers run over and the 911 operator starts giving me instructions for CPR. Another coworker (her team leader) that works in her department brings a pill bottle and starts to try to give her Nitro (from her pill bottle) saying S has had 4 heart attacks before the last being in November. The 911 operator hears the word Nitro and tells me to tell them not to give it to her until the paramedics get there to evaluate her. So I proceed to repeat instructions as given by 911. I'm having to call out now when she has breaths which are few and far between. It is taking the ambulance forever. At one point she says they are 2 blocks away. We are downtown in a major city in our state and their is a fire dept with ambulance 2 blocks away anyway!!! HR arrives with an oxygen tank and mask and we give that to her while chest compressions continue. Meanwhile, the 911 operator tells me that they are in the building (we are on floor 29) and she had to go to answer other emergency calls. The EMTs & Fire Dept get there and work on her for a while longer and then finally put one of those automatic chest compression things on her. She never responded the entire time from when I made the call until an hour later when they left with her. My department and her department were allowed to leave work early. Her team leader texted me about an hour later saying she was taken to the Cath lab and was critical, but stable and sedated.
I just got a call from her team leader saying the doctors are worried about her being without oxygen for so long and that she has some swelling in her brain. They were about to test her brain waves and pending the outcome they are possibly doing some sort of hypothermia treatment where they lower her temperature for 24 hours then raise it again over the following 12 hours.
Please keep her in your thoughts and prayers. She is a very sweet lady. I, of course am upset with myself for not trying to look over my wall more. I never thought someone would be on the ground right there. Her team leader was like, Gin, you did fine, you called 911. We all did everything we could and we just have to accept that. It's just hard.
DD(14),SD(13),SS(11),SS(9),DS(3)
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Re: (NBR)Had to call 911 at work this morning
Latest update from an hour and a half ago: She isn't doing well. Her liver and kidneys are shutting down and she had another heart attack overnight. Her heart is so weak that they cannot shock her again if she codes. Her brain function is also worse today than on Friday.
It sucks.