Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Who has more fun???

Yesterday jill and I went to my Dr.s appt. at 1:00, a normal visit to change perscriptions and get a chest x-ray, a normal visit, right? While we were there, a guy came in with chemical ingestion, and or exposure. We had to walk by him sprawled out on the floor unconscious with an IV going and oxygen mask, on the way to x-ray. During the time I got my x-ray, the paramedics got there to fly him to the hospital, they were loading him up as we left the x-ray room. That was close as we got to him, a couple of feet. ont the way to the hospital, he passed away. I was finishae with my appt. about 2:20 and Jill and I left. We came home to get my kids, they weren't here, they stayed for toutoring and choir, so Jill said "just take me home", then she realized she left her purse at the Dr.s. So we stopped by to get her purse, by then the police and fire dept and haz-mat were there. We had to go back in, because we had been so close to him when we were there. So from 3:00 until 8:30 pm last night we were in the Urgent care at Saratoga Springs, with 7 other people and the staff, waiting to br de contaminated and waiting to find out what the chemical was. whooohooo. They said it was lsmn or something like that.....basically harmless unless there is a constant exposure....the guy was exposed on a daily basis at his work and then the las big ingestion yesterday sent him over the edge. So sad, he was only in his 30's. The plant is in Payson. he lived in Eagle Mt.
So one of the symptoms of exposure is Pink Eye... Jill got that....she woke up with it today. I just have a bad head ache.... Like I said Who has more fun?!

1 comment:

Jamie said...

Holy crap. That's pretty scary. That whole west side has always made me nervous from all the industrial waste and mining over there. I hope you're both better today. The last thing your body needs is exposure to toxins!