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Originally Posted by Tink

Awwwwwwwwwwww poor chickie!

When I was working on the ambulance service, things were still done the old fashioned way. We were on-call from our homes and rushed to the ambulance as needed. When we did CPR it was mouth to mouth without masks or appliances of any kind. More often than not, when you do CPR, the patient ends up losing the contents of their stomach from the strenuous chest compressions; so the person doing the respirations ended up getting a taste of their last meal.

On one occassion I was called and told since the patient was located between my house and the ambulance, I should go directly to the scene and the ambulance would meet me there. I beat the ambulance by several minutes, and found a lady whose family had dropped in for a visit and found her dead in bed. I pulled her onto the floor and started CPR with her family members standing over us wide eyed and frantic.

She'd obviously gotten up and had strawberries and cream for breakfast, then gone back to bed; probably because she didn't feel well. So there I was, doing CPR by myself when her breakfast decided to come back up directly into my mouth just as my partners came running in. The family members never even noticed as I spit out her breakfast and continued CPR while the other EMTs scooped her onto the stretcher and rolled her away.
When we got to the hospital, one of the nurses met me with a bottle of mouthwash, so obviously one of my partners had noticed. LOL
BLECH!

Believe it or Not!

EWWWW! Did she survive?