Ed, you triggered my memory on something that happened to me once.
It was 1980 and I was working at the local hospital on the grounds dept. This particular morning I walked down through the basement area and to where we kept the equipment for mowing ect. When I entered the equipment room, for some reason I walked over to the garage door and hit the button to open it. I had no reason to do this, I just did it.
When the door opened, I saw a car drive past. This is just an access road to a couple of loading docks behind the hospital. Then the car backs up and it disappears behind a cooling tower that was there. So I walked out to the road to see where the car went.
There was the car and a elderly lady was out and walking toward me. When she was right in front of me she collapsed in my arms. She wouldn't respond to anything I said so I carried her back to her car and got her in the passenger side. There's nothing around the back of this place, nobody is hardly ever back there. Doing CPR would almost be out of the question because I would probably need it myself by time someone noticed. Best bet is to get her around to the front of the building and into the emergency room.
Luckily the keys were in the ignition so I jumped behind the wheel, turned the car around and hauled *** to the ER. It was about a mile around to the front as I ran two or three stop signs and really blew the carbon out of that engine. I held her wrist and could barely feel a slow, faint pulse.
I came flying into the emergency entrance, jumped out, ran inside and shouted out "we have a Code Blue outside!" Well the girls looked at me like it was a joke or something. They all knew me and didn't it seriously. I hollered out again and they finally came running out.
Later that day I came through the ER and asked about her. They said she was ok and told me they had admitted her. The next day I recieved a Thank You card from my supervisor that was sent by her. I stopped by her room and we had a nice talk about what had happened.
She was a substitute teacher that day and was having chest pains while teaching class. They sent her home! Well she didn't make it too far and decided to drive herself to the hospital. She was from out of town and didn't know the area. That's how she ended up around the back.
Now you can't tell me that wasn't planned out...
