Bear in mind that ambulance companies aren’t diverting EMTs away from a heart attack or traumatic amputation to answer your call. They’re much more likely to be diverting EMTs from:
Sitting in an ambulance station or a random parking lot playing Words With Friends and/or developing elaborate company-wide romantic intrigues
Sitting in a hospital EMS room doing giant stacks of paperwork no one will ever read while trying to make dinner entirely out of saltines and condiments
Routine transports of people who have to travel by stretcher, who maybe are not happy to be late, but are hardly going to die from it
Transports which are technically emergencies, but are stuff like vomiting or a sprained ankle where the urgency factor is more like “yeah, you should get that seen” than like “STAT CODE RED CODE BLUE CODE POLKA DOT STAT STAT STAT.”
So if you think you might need an ambulance, call one. You are not going to single-handedly take down the EMS system by daring to use it.
I’m reblogging it but I would be that person wondering “Do I need this enough” until I died.
I have legitimately done this. Please, take care of yourselves.
Furthermore, guys, we have dispatch. Dispatch makes sure that we’re all where we need to be, so you’re not taking an ambulance away from someone who “needs it more.”
Let dispatch worry if an ambulance needs to be somewhere else. You just worry about taking care of yourself.
Most of them time we’re passing the time at the station by trying to find where the firefighters hid the remote /this time/ and listening to scary stories on YouTube. Your safety and health is not an inconvenience.
Your rashes, blemishes, scars and bruises has not made you ugly
Not being able to shower has not made you ugly
Flashbacks and paranoia has not made you ugly
Changes in your body and brain has not made you ugly
Having seizures has not made you ugly
Your trauma, depression and anxiety has not made you ugly
Your hallucinations, brain fog, and confusion has not made you ugly
Your lack of control over your body, brain, mood and life has not made you ugly.
Please never feel ashamed or ugly about what your illness has done to you, no matter what it has changed it can not change the beauty that you have, so even if you feel like youre not beautiful right now, please remember,
You are beautiful and your disability can never take that from you.
some ppl be deadass telling you how you shouldn’t trust big pharma because the disorder that you’ve been living with for the past few years is “fake” but then continue to use facebook dot com or similar as their most reliable information source. okay pal
This is my “famous ladies with bump noses” appreciation post.
I grew up being so insecure about my nose. I hated it. I would look at my profile in the mirror and cover up my bump and think I looked better. I wanted to get surgery. I even had relatives (who meant well, honestly) encourage me to get surgery if it was something that would make me happy.
It wasn’t fair growing up thinking you had ugly features, constantly seeing models and actors with button noses, never seeing someone that looked like you. Or overhear someone say “oh she’s so pretty but she has a huge nose!” That sucked.
You are pretty. And beautiful and unique. Your bigger nose is NOT unattractive, nor does it make you so. You don’t need to change your nose if you don’t want to.