At work today....

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    A 38 year-old woman had a seizure in my arms. Here's the story.

I was at my regular job (Grocery store) and I was outside getting the
carts.  As I was in one of the coralles getting the carts a woman
came stumbling towards me, right away I just assume she is drunk, and
wants a cart. As she gets closer to me I see this woman is in no shape
to be going into the store....however, that isn't even what she wants.
She wants me to "protect" her, and as I ask from what I see she has a
couple of bruises on her arms(austomatically made me suspect she was in
an abusive relationship). But that's not all of it either, she
was  insanely drunk as I presumed, and as I continued to inspect
her I see a hole in her forearm, it appeared to be a hole from a
saringe, I thought great, a herione addict.

    I then go on to ask her if she's okay, which she
obviously is not. I can only hear faint mumbles of how she just got out
of the hospital for pneumonia, something about drugs,and something
about not wanting her boyfriend near her. Suddenly she grabs my arm,
and starts kind of shaking, at this point I realize she is having a
seizure, her eyes are rolling around and she doesn't respond to
anything, her mouth is also kind of foamy. So, while she has this death
grip on me I pull out my cell phone and call 911. I ensure her that
everything is going to be alright, however at this point a lot of
things were going through my mind, I do not obtain high medical
knowledge and I don't want this woman to die in my arms. When the 911
operator picked up I told her what is going on and where I am at. I
then call the service desk and ask a manager to come out and assist me(
they have no idea what is going on yet).

    About 30 seconds after calling the ambulance her
boyfriend comes out. At this point I don't want him anywhere near her,
and to make the matter worse he actually tried telling me that she is
"o.k." and attempted to take her away. I told him to go stand over by
his car, and wait for the ambulance to come and help her, because I was
not letting her go with him. At first I expected him to
yell/fight/argue, but I think he understood my tone and the seriousness
and let me try to comfort her(since he was the last thing she wanted
near her, some how I think he knew this). I keep on hearing these
mumbles about drugs and hating her boyfriend. Now even though she has
one of those lives where most people just don't care about them, I want
to help, I know people can change their lives around, I feel obligated
to get the police involved in this( my manager also agrees with this).
So she calls dispatch and when they get there they ask me what she was
saying, and so on. They didn't arrest her boyfriend, but they took him
up to the hospital for her tests, which is all I know.

So, after that crazy event I have no idea how she is doing or what
happened to her and if her boyfriend was arrested. All I know is at
this point I did what I could and what I thought was right. Not the
ordinary day at a grocery store, but things like this can be real
eye-openers to the real world, and the flaws within it. I could only
hope her life turns out for the best, and that she is alright.

    How'd your days at work go?