A couple of months ago, I posted a picture on Facebook. It was Brett's emergency action plan, in case something happens to me, considering my husband currently lives/works 6 hours away and my oldest son is completely non-verbal. Well, that post made someone (who I thought was a friend) turn me in for a "welfare check" on my children. I cleared over 200 people out of my Facebook life, and if you are still reading this, unfriend me right now. If I ever find out who it was, there will be hell to pay.
Anyway, several people asked me "don't you think he should call 911 if there's an emergency?" He does know how to do that. Now let me explain why that's not part of our emergency plan. On Wednesday morning, Brett had a grand mal seizure on the bus. He is 19, and has never had a seizure before. Shortly after that seizure ended, he had another small seizure. He continued to have seizure activity for 15 minutes. He was completely non-responsive, drooling, and couldn't even open his eyes. The bus driver dispatched to the bus garage that they needed 911 called, as a student was having a seizure. It took the ambulance 16+ minutes to get from their location (volunteer fire hall) to where the bus was pulled over. It is a 1.5 mile drive. Trust me, I plugged it into Mapquest.
I don't want to imagine what could've happened in those 16 minutes. But I can't help it. You see, I remembered it was a law that the buses have to have cameras. And Brett sits right behind the driver. I watched the entire event. From 2 minutes before it started until he got off the bus to get on the ambulance. I will never get those images out of my head.
So, if you want to question why we don't have 911 on our emergency action plan, there you have it. And you can go fuck yourself. And by the way, they didn't call for the ambulance until after the second seizure. And don't even get me started on the commentary I heard. Yeah, those cameras have audio, too.
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