‘You Don’t Know Who You Are, You Don’t Know What You’ve Done | Paramedic (Anon)

Yet again, one of our followers doesn’t disappoint when it comes to getting a very important message across to the wider population. 

If ever you have been tempted or if ever you are tempted to dial 999 and intentionally exaggerated a minor injury, such as a stubbed toe, JUST to get an emergency ambulance to your location, then you need to read this. 

You need to understand the potential consequences of lying just because you want a ‘free’ ride to hospital after you dropped your mobile phone on your foot, or cut your finger accidentally with a piece of paper: 

‘You don’t know who you are, you don’t know what you’ve done.

‘Today though you’ve taken a piece of my soul.

‘Your  selfish attitude and complete lack of respect for your fellow humans, your elderly relatives, someone’s sisters someone’s mum, someone’s brother, father, uncle friend, neighbour. Today your actions cost someone their life.

‘You’ve left a family and many friends heartbroken, grieving, weeping and crying out “ why me”” why us”  sat looking only at a photograph or picturing a memory whilst silently sobbing with tears pouring down their face.

‘You’ve left two young children devastated, you’ve changed the course of their life forever, changed a family and left a young woman paralysed down one side, wondering “ why me” “ why our family”.

‘You’re responsible for leaving a teenage boy trapped in a rolled over car, scared, frightened and alone and in considerable pain as he has several serious fractures  and life threatening internal injuries.

‘YOU did that.

‘You did that when you called an ambulance because your loved one had a sore toe. You did that when you said ‘I’m going to call back and say they’re not breathing’ ( knowing full well they were) after you were told there would be up to a 2 hour wait for an ambulance.

‘YOU did that when your threat became a reality and you called 999 and LIED because your “ sore toe” was SO important that you ‘needed’ essentially a mobile ITU unit to race to your house to save your life on a category 1 emergency.

‘YOU caused two ambulances and a fast response car ( 5 highly trained medics of emergency medicine) to be diverted  to your house for a sore toe – telling us the patient was having a cardiac arrest.

‘Today you took a piece of my soul, the tiny remaining fraction that was responsible for clinging onto the hope that humans are inherently good. You’ve taken another piece of my faith in the human race.