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“Wasn’t employed by the hospital but worked as an inter facility transport EMT at the time. Had one patient that had terminal bone cancer and was morbidly obese. I was transporting her from the hospital to a radiation appointment. I developed a rapport with her and she opened up and told me how she is just buying, maybe, six months by treating the cancer otherwise she would have died already. We get to the facility to do the radiation treatment and are told it should only take about 45 minutes…then we get to the room where the magic happens and the table she’s supposed lay on is the same size a small adult would use. They have no modified version for morbidly obese adults, the only way to keep her on are extra straps they use to tie her down to the table.”
“They constantly have to stop the procedure to adjust her for comfort. Two hours in, the fentanyl she was given at the hospital has completely worn off and the facility isn’t authorized to administer meds like that. Appointment ended up taking about four hours longer than it should have and she was just miserable, but still so sweet and apologetic the whole time. I felt awful for her and after it was done there was a huge sense of relief in her voice. I told her how inspirational she was to me to see how resilient she was being.” — JayDeezy14