Discussion
A friend who was in rehab recovering from recent hip replacement surgery may have just had a heart attack, and has been transported to a hospital.
:-(
double-plus ungood!
I'm heading over there.
He was doing so-so when I saw him about four hours ago, but this happened in the last half hour.
Just getting him into the car was an abject failure. Had to call 911. Though it didn't take long for paramedics to arrive, by the time they did, he was no longer breathing, and his heart had stopped. They used a defibrillator and CPR, took him back to the ER, and the ER doctors were also unable to resuscitate him.
I should never have agreed to "help" him leave the hospital.
My friend is now dead, for entirely stupid and preventable reasons. It's mostly his own fault, but unfortunately I contributed to the problem. He was in ICU, but was unhappy with how he felt they were treating him. Against the repeated medical advice from multiple doctors, multiple nurses, and me, he insisted on leaving, and though I tried to talk him out of it, had me try to get him into the car and take him somewhere else.