Yo, EMT guy. I lived with grand mal seizures for 7 years. You guys have been the first thing I see when a seizure is over on many occasions. I just want to thank all you first responders out there. You guys and gals are awesome. Thank you.
Samme, 12 years of generalized epilepsy tonic clonic seizures. I had one hiking alone with my service dog (stupid decision but my dog found someone) and the fire department took me half way down the mountain on an ATV once I was conscious enough. Much respect for the fire fighters/emts/paramedics disturbingly underpaid. I've had too many interactions with them and the majority of the time I don't remember it, it's a badass gig wish I could do it.
@@mindybunny yeah she's technically not even a service dog either, she's a shelter dog that I tried to train as a service dog. She's seen a lot of my seizures but she honestly doesn't know how to do much she's mostly Shiba inu, they've got their own agenda. She is devote though, the reason I had a seizure was cause id taken a turn onto someone's personal trail and got lost so I started to panic. I'm guessing from her hunting DNA she's good at navigation and she wasn't lost so she managed to get back on trail and ran down to some people we'd passed on the way up who were working on the trail. They then followed her back up to me. It was amazing, definitely could have died from a fall when I tried to get back up if it wasn't for her. I'm always trying to get somewhere before I'm fully conscious and I was on this rock so I can only imagine the mess that would have resulted. At the very least I would have been even more confused with no way to contact help.
Had a situation like this once. Boss was pissed off we kept stopping to drink and refill our water bottles and threatened us with write ups. I just stopped refilling my water. Within an hour and a half I was waking up in the back of an ambulance hooked up to a banana bag. I sent him the bill with my resignation and a legal threat.
I live in a state that has outlawed feeding homeless ppl, no abortion past 6wks, waitresses make $2.13/hr, made being homeless a criminal act, squatters have rights, a guy is suing his ex gf for gettin an abortion when she left him due to domestic violence, you cant get a divorce if you are pregnant. ... Plus many more.. my state is ghetto
So this main comment makes me feel like it happened in my state cause they be acting like drinking water while on the clock is a crime.. it can get up to 113° heat index right now..
@@Voland1871 Really shouldn't need a party to keep that up. It's also a human right to stay hydrated www.un.org/waterforlifedecade/pdf/human_right_to_water_and_sanitation_media_brief.pdf
@@KityKatKiller There are loads of reasons to stay, the main one being the lack of other viable options paying as much as the one you currently have. The days of abundance are over, grandpa. Wake tf up lmao
@@GreyPunkWolf Lol I'm 25 my dude xD. Not really a Grandpa. Not even dad. I'm just saying if this is more than a one-time occurence it does majorly cut into your finances.
I recently fell on my longboard and ruptured my spleen. It was the worst pain I’ve ever felt, and I couldn’t breathe, but I refused to call 911 because I’m on Medicaid and I thought the ride to the hospital was gonna be like $5000 or something. So a lady who had seen me fall drove me to the hospital in her pick up. Because I didn’t come in the ambulance the hospital didn’t take my complaint seriously, they actually said that since I was talking that meant I could breathe fine. Meanwhile I was bleeding out internally and was told by a doctor who did the surgery later that I would’ve died if I had stayed at that hospital. My dad drove me to a better hospital, they did a CAT scan and found the internal bleeding, and then they rushed me to an even better hospital. South Bend Memorial Hospital saved my life, and the surgeon who did the operation was pretty furious that the first when I went to was just gonna let me die
@@rryase well I was intent on going in there myself as soon as I was able to stand up for an extended period of time again. But my dad said that the surgeon said he was going to personally deal with that hospital, and he was furious. And he’s a very respected surgeon in the area, so I’m guessing his actions will have a much greater consequence than mine. I’m also thinking about suing them because a girl I work with had a little brother who went to the same hospital for the exact same injury like either a month before a month after me. Same thing they ignored it, sent him home, and he almost died. The hospital is terrible and has a reputation for refusing to treat people. They act like they’re just some family doctors office that can’t really do anything for you, despite the fact that they are a full fledged emergency room, open 24/7 with ambulances and everything. Something’s just horribly wrong there
The prices are disgusting and make zero sense. Purely a ploy to bleed you. Although obviously you can and it is recommended to get medical insurance. Thank god I'm in the UK and we have the NHS (even if it is falling apart and also rigged and corruption. Aka they buy toothpaste and its back charged ar 10quid for a small travel size tube...when its a quid anywhere else in shops.)
@@orderofmagnitude-TPATP I feel that, we (US) get charged $34 for asprin, or $18 for an IV tube. They gouge the insurance and the insurance gouges us, it's a vicious circle.
@@Shteven that's insane. 34 dollars for aspirin? No doubt the NHS probably buys it for a similar price,when in the supermarket its anything from 0.79p for a generic version, but up to 2.99 for a brand name.... A far cry from 34dollars!
@@becky3484 Some in fact do. My uncle had a bit of chestpain as he put it, went to the GP, GP told him to lie down and called an ambulance. Uncle was like no no I will drive myself. Doc: You either plant your ass there and stay put, or I call all 3 of my staff to hold you there, tie you down if I must. No, you are having a heart attack. "I can drive myself I feel okay enough." He got tied down that instant.
@@deylackbro it's construction if he cant stand the heat get a new job, also being lazy takes effort sometimes, the whole "lazy people wouldn't put in that much effort" is asinine. they're just lazy, too lazy to find a new job....
It's called find a new job or you can file a complaint with the Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission which normally results in you taking them to court, an if not settled later results in investigation especially if other workers attest to the allegations.
Depends actually if said person works in Texas then it's not legally required anymore. House Bill 2127 passed the state Legislature and Gov. Greg Abbott promptly signed it into law on June 14. The bill, which goes into effect in September, strips construction workers in Austin and Dallas of the right to water breaks every four hours and time to rest in the shade while on the job.
My husband had a seizure last year. We still don't know why. It was terrifying. Once he saw the out of network ambulance and hospital bill, he stopped following up and said "Next time just let me die" :( Thanks for all you do.
I've got seizure disorder. I'm sadly in agreement with your hubs. My partner usually drives me if I have one longer than a minute or have a grand mal (I normally have absence seizures). Just ain't worth the bill.
I have epilepsy. So so so rare to die from one. The hospital can’t do anything for you once it’s over. I asked my neurologist because my family and work insisted on taking me to the hospital every stupid time. He said I only have to go if I injured myself badly or it lasts over 5 minutes (the shaking part, the very start to finish cam last hours, but the shaking is where you lose oxygen to the brain). If I’m lucky enough to come to before I’m in the ambulance I just reject it. Saves so much money.
@@katherinemurphree6858but this also depends on the situation. If someone randomly had a seizure they should follow up to see what it is. But maybe I just feel that way because I’m not American.
OMG LMAOOOOOO!!!!! I can’t I can’t I just busted out laughing IN CHURCH!⛪️ OHH MY MY OH MYY …. It was the pinching the nose try to hold it in but couldn’t. Thank GOD 🙏🏼 that is was during the greeting and I already sat down for the last 2 minutes 🤦🏻♀️ OOMG!! Pray”Lord I apologize, what had happen was … well… well you saw it” 🤣
The “exhales violence” gets me. That’s when you’ve been around long enough to not put up with other people’s BS. And also paying $800 just not be in the heat? Either he’s making a lot to shrug it off or he just really hates his job.
Or he has good insurance. I legitimately had to call 911 and have ambulance transport three times last year. Even though I was death warmed over and the paramedics couldn't find my pulse, I was still apologizing for needing them. I haven't received bills for the transport or the three weeks-long hospital stays I had.
@@That1SupportiveFriend What did your insurance cover? I'm having trouble believing this. I work in ambulance billing and I've never sent a $1300 bill directly to a patient. We bill insurance, insurance pays off their portion, they might not cover all of it but if they don't we "write off" the remaining balance and send the patient an explanation of benefits after settling in insurance. If you were asked to pay a $1300 bill you are definitely the exception and not the rule.
When a ride to the hospital sounds better than working with somebody, different questions need to be asked. Edit: Apparently I stared a comment war, and I have no idea how.
I once quit a job because the day was too pretty to work through. The people were great, I'm just a millennial who realizes how easy it is to get another minimum wage job when you get sick of one 😂
@@magicdawn1973 then they need to rework their interviewing and application skills. I'm socially backwards, have had many jobs for short times, there's nothing special about my qualifications, and I have still managed to always find a job when I need. There's no "privilege" needed when you have common sense and modest presentation of yourself😉
@@magicdawn1973that’s not privilege. yk how hard it is to nail interview after interview? just because someone can succeed at something better than you doesn’t mean it’s privilege. edit: grammar
I think my last one cost me like 15€ or something. But then they wanted 800€ out of my pocket to test me, no support from the government, as if getting a licence wasn't expensive enough. Still can't drive a car in my late 20s. Thanks for nothing, Germany. Still feel shitty about this being a factor for you. It really shouldn't be *_that_* expensive. :/
No such thing as lazy, except people being too lazy to try understand the underlying reason for a behaviour so they call the person “lazy”. If there’s a lot of “lazy” people around you, you might be the abusive boss in your life, think about it.
How so? Fuel and maintenance requires laborers and their efforts. The time and skills of the paramedics should be compensated. Even where it is "Free", it is not, it is just not coming immediately out of your pocket, but it is coming from your taxes, and more than $800.
@@trapjohnson I could see and justify the ambulance ride costing money if the average wage in America was insanely good and household debt was at an all-time low while the stock market was soaring. The problem with people like you is you only see economic units instead of human beings. The "everything has a price" mentality only works when the economy is booming and people are paid fair wages. Otherwise you are just defending a broken and corrupt system that is sucking the life out of people through their wallets. Such systems can be accurately described as debt slavery systems. Again, I could agree with you that the ambulance ride and other medical care expenses should cost people money if earning money was as easy and profitable as it by all means should be considering our level of technology and social development. Instead it isn't, meaning that money is being siphoned somewhere else (but to where? And by whom? you might ask yourself, were you a thinking man). So if the government and other institutional powers are engaging in corruption or allowing our national wealth to be stolen from us, the least they must do is see to our health and well-being. After all, if we are slaves (and we are) doesn't it seem like a good idea to keep us "in good working order?"
@@trapjohnsonwe easily pay enough taxes for ambulance rides. I should not be paying fucking 800 dollars for an ambulance ride...WITH INSURANCE. Mind you insurance already subsidized by my taxes. Nah man. The medical care in the US is absolutely dog shit. You basically triple pay on medical shit in the US. You pay taxes to the insurance company, you pay monthly to the insurance company, And you pay out of pocket. No. You pay way less per capita in a country where the health care is "free" and anyone telling you otherwise is lying to your face
In Germany you pay like 10 bucks for the ride to the hospital and then 10 additional bucks for every day you stay at the hospital. Its law there for everyone to have insurance.
It's law here in the US for everyone to have health insurance, too. That doesn't mean it covers anything without paying $10,000+ out of pocket first. (I have the best insurance in my area and we have to pay $4,000 before insurance even starts paying anything, and then once we hit $6,000, insurance covers a lot of things, but not hospital stays, ambulances, surgeries, or procedures. We pay 20-40% depending on if we're at an in-network hospital/company. And even 20% of $60,000 is $12,000, so it's still super expensive for even a single day in the hospital. Again, best insurance in my area. EDIT: the law regarding needing to have health insurance has been rescinded
@@HmmmmmLemmeThinkNoa quick google search says 8.4%, or 27 million Americans don’t have any form of health insurance. So… are they breaking the law or…
I mean, you're paying two highly trained experts who- what am I even saying, they get paid 1/10th of that even including the whole team and their benefits (like use of the ambulance) and rounded up. Charging 3 or 4x is normal, but 10x is extortion.
That’s cheap💀 I’ve have to get ambulance rides many times before cuz of my seizures (even tho we live just a few blocks from the ER) and it was up to 2-3k for the ambulance ride
@@MrMonnyWe have similar tax rates in the US, maybe even worse if you're unlucky enough to live in California or New York, and it all goes into the pockets of politicians, who say that in order to get the services that other countries manage to pay for with much lower taxes, we need to raise ours to levels that make the Soviet Union seem tax free by comparison
My epileptic ass was going through the first half of this short like 'the man worked for the fire department for god knows how long and *this* is his seizure impression?' and the second half hit and it suddenly made sense lol
@@kaitlynnetanner2811 my message was directed to the main commenter. But I'm glad that people know, and sadge that you have it. Hope your treatment is great.
you know if a guy is willing to pay 800 bucks minimum to get out from his job maybe there's something seriously wrong with said job's working conditions.
Yeah the fact that it's only 800. Where I live that would be at least 1500 bare minimum.
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Oh my hell, it is outrageous! I drove my own ass to the hospital with stomach paralysis, just to have the hospital pass it off as a stomach virus. They gave me an IV and charged me $3k! I arrive at the same hospital 4 days later because I haven't been able to keep anything down for 2-weeks now and am still throwing up solids. Finally they took me seriously and diagnosed the stomach paralysis correctly. Gave me another IV and some meds and left with a second $3k bill! If they had just listened to me in the first place I would have only been stuck with one $3 bill, but instead they passed off what I was telling them and got screwed for $6k 😭 The system is fucked, doctors refuse to actively listen to patients, and the cost is unmanageable
Crazy how a shit job will have you considering maiming yourself for some time off. I've definitely weighed up the pros/cons of "accidentally" chopping the tip of my pinky finger off more than once 😂
@@Deffectedit's almostvloke corporate doesn't give a damn about people unless they are working. Because them if they aren't working when they are supposed to then they care
That's not entirely true. Sometimes they do sometimes they don't. My ex was prone to seizures, had multiple when we were together and not once did she piss herself.
@devanbahnmiller5644 ... I'm aware. My 12 year old has a tumor on her brain, epilepsy & ESES. It was a joke, not a diagnosis. Thanks for the entirely unnecessary "well akshually" though. Hope it made you feel better.
Not once did I say "well actually" you're making fun of someone with a potentially dangerous lifestyle. Don't feed me with that sincere bullshit about your kid. Doubt it's true due to the lack of care you express. What you said about "0 commitment" was extremely unnecessary
@@devanbahnmiller5644bruh you're taking this too far lmao 🤣 everyone knows you didn't say 'erm actually' it's just that you did something that type of person would do. Just chill bro
Absolutely. Most of the jobs I've worked, I loved the guys I worked with, but management made it completely unlivable. Not just my direct boss, but random people in executive positions just sticking their noses in and making everything worse for no reason
So, there is an actual test like that. You hold the person's hand over their face and drop it. If they're completely unconscious, it'll land on their face. If they're conscious, they'll instinctually drift it away from their face so it doesn't hit them.
My ex-wife would stick an ammonia inhalant in each nostril and do a sternal rub. If that didn't snap you out of it treatment would begin. Great nurse but terrible bedside manner.
My late partner (who was a nurse) would take the cap of a pen and gently (but firmly) press it into the cuticle of a finger, not enough to damage anything, just like pushing the cuticle back for a nail job. It's slightly unpleasant, and it gets a reaction every time out of someone who's *not* having a seizure. Interestingly enough, she developed the trick on me because I have absence seizures, and thought I was pulling her leg at first. Aye gods I miss that fiery Brit...
Last time I rode in the ambulance I needed it. I have Cerebral Palsy and I was running to the neighbor friend to show off my floating Bluetooth speaker. Near her house I tripped over my bad foot, which turns inward when I move. And I fell and hit my head on the sidewalk so hard I cracked my skull and had internal brain damage ( hematoma or something?). I stayed in the hospital for 3 days. Spent most of my time asleep.
Depressingly few correct takes in this thread. Employer abuse like this literally costs employers money, to say nothing of the greater costs to society. But many bosses can't be convinced of that because of the obsessive sadism required to become a boss in the first place.
They have figured out that we are the closet energy to perpetual energy. Make us make 50 cheeseburgers to afford 1 for yourself, build 50 homes to barely afford 1 for yourself, answer 100s of calls so you can afford a device to make few personal calls. Most people believe it to with the way they think they are divine are some forever conscious energy . You can convince humans they will die if they don't be productive in mass production.
I worked under many abusive bosses, so I wanna sympathize with this guy, but he did say "boss never lets us go early". Like, you expect to get paid for not doing your job? I do close up early if I get everything done. I have had many abusive bosses, but also many coworkers who abused the system too.
Def depends on the region! My dad's neck of the woods, it's a couple hundred bucks. Where I've lived the last 35 years, it's between 7 and 12 hundred, depending on the provider
@@shoutade9508naja umsonst ist das nicht 😅 Es bezahlt halt die Krankenversicherung aus unseren Beiträgen. Als Privatpatient zahlt man so ca. 450 Euro, wird halt dann erstattet.
$800 only?! The insurance billed my Dad $2500 to be transferred across the street from one side of the hospital to the next while his heart was failing because they couldn't take him through the hospital connector. His blood pressure kept dropping due to cancer pushing on his heart. He died 4 days later, and the insurance man on the phone said he didn't care. Someone was going to pay.
@@juliakrasinski Have you ever made something an idol, used God’s name as a cuss word, dishonor your parents, murder (God views hate as murder), lusting, stealing, lying, wanting something another has that isn’t rightfully yours? Doing so we violating the law, which is sin, and because of sin there is a punishment…If a serial killer like Ted Bundy tells a judge of all the good things he’s done for society do you think the judge would let the serial killer off free? The same is with us; we’ve committed such crimes against God that we are separated from God forever; we are punished by suffering Hell for eternity, a place with no hope for us. But God loves us so much and with all his heart that he gave his only Son, Jesus Christ, to this cursed world to be crucified on the cross. (John 3:16-17) Now anyone who accepts Jesus Christ, God’s Son, as their Lord and Savior and believes he rose from the dead the third day will be saved from eternal damnation in Hell and live in Heaven in paradise with him forever. Many will choose to follow Satan, whether it be because they think they won’t succeed otherwise or won’t have any joy or friendships, but he will soon reveal himself as a murderer and a liar as he was since the beginning and he will curse all his followers as he cursed God and all of Satan’s followers will be cased into ever burning Hell. Don’t believe this lie I too believed in! Our God is a loving God full of compassion, yet he is a righteous God with righteous judgment. (Matthew 13:41-42)
@@acherem13 Acute incarceritis is our go to field impression for most trips to the jail. Either that, or it's an OD because they ate all their drugs when they got pulled over.
@@Whitecroc 99% of the time, the person is an asshat that is trying somehow to not be jailed for something they are imminently guilty of doing. I have never been to an LE call where LE was in the wrong. If anything, they call us too often to "just check out" someone at crime scene if the person even looks questionable.
I remember the first time seeing my friend have a grand mal seizure, we were walking back to his apartment from the store just laughing and joking in the parking lot so it was cement, he just looked up, started walking in circles and dropped and slammed his head and started seizing, I had to take my shirt off to make a pillow and then had to call an ambulance and I was so shook seeing my best friend like that I started crying idk why but I couldn’t help it, I was shaking myself. Seizures are no joke and until you see a loved one or a close friend have a grand-mal right in front of you, don’t do this. It’s disturbing and not much pisses me off but knowing that people fake them as much as they do makes me sick bro. I won’t forget that day. I think we were 22 at the time so it’s been 11 years and he still has them a few times a week.
I had a grand mal seizure on my friends couch & fell directly into her lap. I dont remember it at all but later she told me it scared the absolute shit out of her. Thankfully it wasnt my first because she at least was somewhat prepared. I like to joke that the seizures are more stressful for the people around me than they are for me, cuz I'm not the one who has to witness it 😅 Ive never witnessed one myself, but my parents once caught video footage of me after i stopped seizing and as i was sort of "coming to" and it was super freaky to see because I was trying to talk, but what i was saying made no sense and i have no memory of it or what I was trying to say
@@slitheen3 Dang bro im sorry you gotta go through it! And yea that was one of the first ones I seen my friend have but it was never that bad, and every time after that one, once he came to, you could tell he didn’t know what happened, where he was and why people were around him. Sadly my friend HATED the medics and having to call the ambulance (it’s too expensive for sure) but he would get pissed and then check himself out of the hospital AMA as soon as he was fully out of it. I panicked when I called an ambulance for him that time but he wasn’t mad at me, he was literally more worried because he heard how upset I was because it happened right in front of me and I was shaken up for the rest of the day and he spent that day trying to lift my spirits. It’s definitely sad to witness one especially if you are close with that person like a best friend or family member. I think that’s why I cried and even though I tried my hardest to stop the tears I could not help it, it was watching a friend almost die in front of me.
@@-BUGZ-the first time my mom ever had a seizure she was in her late 20s & my dad was scared shitless. He described it the same way; like watching the person you love dying.
Bruhhhh. The " looked up and started walking on circles" That's so fucking me. Like we all see the twitching and shaking but you never really hear about the minute before that can just be rediculous things seizures have us do
Yea happened to my with an ex bf I was 18 and he was driving through the taco bell drive through in my car and started seizuring from low blood sugar he was diabetic omg it scared me I work with animals but humans are scary
i did this once in the 6th grade to try and go home early, I walked in the bathroom and waited for someone else to come in and started acting like i was gonna pass out he ran and grabbed his teacher they called 911, paramedics and fire fighters showed up took a little while to check me out and they took me to the hospital to try and figure out what happened all to go home early… I didn’t get home till 7:00 that night.
My dude... just make urself throw up or something... My friend showed me a video from Saw... the one with the face trap full of nails... I musta been in grade 3... so maybe I was 9? We were watching it at lunch and the suspense was too much, I got sick and barfed all over... Then got to go home... Anytime I wanted to go home after I'd just... get sick lol
@@jaybee8862 lmao i know exactly what scene your talking about! 😂 although the sick excuse was played out by this time so had i called sick they would’ve told me to get over it 😂 honestly should’ve just sat my ass down for the rest of the day like a normal kid 🤣😭
I used to get nose bleeds out of nowhere all the time and whenever that happened the teacher gave me permission to do anything. Never went home though, that just meant more work the next day or for the entire week to get caught up.
That's completely understandable. I work in the ER and they drive me up the wall because they take valuable resources from those who need them. I promise you that real seizures stand out a mile. I suspect people fake them (& seeing fakers is a daily occurrence for EMTs, firefighters, police and ERs) because it's a serious enough condition that we will react to it like an emergency, but they don't have to actually stop breathing/hack off a limb/ etc. They stand out a *mile* though. Most have never seen a seizure, so it looks nothing like a real one. They also don't realise that we have to find out the cause... The sheer number that miraculously "wake up" and are completely lucid and full of energy when I stand next to them and describe the tests I'm ordering is always a good indicator. I'm sure I don't need to explain why to you, but please know that we really can tell the difference and will always do our utmost to make sure that the muppets never impact your care. Hope that your condition is under control and that you're doing well 😎👍
@t-and-p i appreciate the understanding. Thank you for doing what you do. I'm controlled but still have auras and sometimes those are just as bad. I had to be put in a coma to get the seziures to stop. The hospital left me alone in a room and i fell holding on to tailing and broke my shoulder bad. Years later and I'm still in pain. Moral of the story is don't stop your meds cold turkey.
@@ryangriffith1500 I'm really sorry to read about your experiences. That fall sounds painful! Sometimes we try and put patients into rooms for privacy, but it reduces our ability to keep a close eye on them. It's a tough one to get the balance right on and I'm really sorry that the facility got it wrong. Definitely don't *ever* stop meds cold turkey - especially anti-seizure medications. It can be really dangerous. If that decision was made by the hospital, someone needs their backside handing to them... Sorry to read about your shoulder. It's difficult to give any proper advice without seeing the injury, but were you ever given physio once the break had healed? Just thinking that it might be worth trying a heatpad on it and, if it makes a difference, then it'd definitely be worth getting hold of some physio exercises 👍 Dependent on how long ago it was, you might be getting a bit of arthritis in there, so supplements that support joint care might give you some relief and improve your range of movement. There isn't a huge amount of evidence out there, but a study a while ago suggested that glucosamine (a very common joint care supplement) can help those with epilepsy, so it might help you on both fronts. Have you let anyone know about those auras? The fact that you said "sometimes those are just as bad" makes me think they're not stable (eg they come and go, and vary in strength). That could indicate that your medication needs tweaking, so it's definitely worth letting your physician know. Sometimes little changes can make a world of difference. Hope that helps 👍
As an epileptic myself I really need to thank the paramedics who save me every time, though I do have to say that it has saved me from work I didn't want to do 😅
@@hockeyboys61The way people in history have treated epileptic individuals is just Heartbreaking. I'm not an epileptic, but I'm glad you can find humor in it.
@hockeyboys61 100% okay. As another fellow epileptic, it's an awful situation. But, being down and dwelling won't make it better. Make jokes, find a silver lining, you can still be serious about the topic when the time comes, but don't be upset. It took me a few years to learn that lesson. Was diagnosed at 13, I'm now 22. And sorry for the long comment, it's nice to hear from others
@@classypeanuts3352 no need to apologize for the length of that comment, because honestly, you summed up my thoughts on this. Because I always tried to take it as a joke, be funny about it, but every person who has seen me during a seizure, is terrified of this, and is unable to laugh at those jokes. Everyone who hasn't seen me during a seizure thinks it's just harmless fun, and so when I'm after a seizure, they don't really take it seriously. Basically it's very difficult to find people who fully understand what it feels like, and how I can be afraid of a seizure at all times, but also make fun of it at all times, so it's good to hear from fellow epileptics who do understand this feeling.
I was in basic training, and we were all making our beds. A girl slipped and hit her spine on the bed behind her. Momentary pause, and then she threw her arms up and went into a full-blown seizure. It was the craziest thing I had ever seen. Couple of us yelled at other girls to get the TI's, and I yelled at a couple of girls not to touch her. She came back a few days after being in the hospital.
@@pennym1056 You can tell what branch somebody's talking about based on the terms they use. If they say "boot camp," that's Navy or Marines. "Basic" is Army or Air Force, but "BMT" is always Air Force. The names for the guys that yell at you for several weeks is another big indicator: Drill Sergeant = Army Drill Instructor (or D.I.) = Marines T.I./M.T.I./Military Training Instructor = Air Force R.D.C./Recruit Division Commander/Red Rope = Navy (fun fact: they're the only ones that don't get to wear the big Smokey the Bear hats all the other branch instructors get to wear).
@@pennym1056 Air Force (unless the Coast Guard calls them TIs as well). I think this would have been a week one or week two if the person was allowed to just come back and rejoin her current flight. That's also assuming the docs decided it wasn't a serious enough problem for a medical discharge. If it was week 3 or later she would have been recycled (sent back a week) or discharged depending on the severity. Granted, without the lack of details I'm speculating based on what I know (I was in the Air Force, but I'm an Army brat who lived with his grandfather during high school...grandfather was a Marine) so I call it boot. What I know is also based on when I was in (1999-2003, Honorable Discharge, "politely" (politically) encouraged to separate). When I joined I had planned to go career.
My mom had epileptic seizures while my sister and I were growing up and I can assure you they were incredibly distressing to witness, and incredibly distressing for my mom to experience. I can’t imagine anyone willingly faking this disorder. Edit: For the people nitpicking my wording in the comments, I guess what I really meant to say was that I couldn’t imagine anyone in good consciousness faking this disorder. Like, where is their shame?! Thank you to the rest who understood what I meant.
You can’t imagine people who’ve never seen nor experienced a true seizure to use that as an excuse to get out of anything? Really? Students used to say their grandmother died to get out of class!!
I've had a couple seizures myself and while I agree they're scary for everyone who watching, from the perspective of the guy on the floor, you just kinda wake up groggy and confused like you took a long nap. Wasn't really scary
My stepdad used to have a kind of seizure where he wouldn't shake like what you think a typical seizure would be, but would like go completely out of it, blank stare, no response, sort of pass out, then foam at the mouth and eventually come back like he just woke up or something still dazed. It completely freaked me out when I first saw it, but he came back to before I got to the point to call 911
We had a frequent flyer in our district ho would fake seizures to get out of paying his restaurant tab. One day I’d had enough and while he was “seizing” I took three times the amount of the bill (which he always carried several hundred dollars in cash, it used to freak us out transporting him with that money so we’d always have a cop take the wallet) and paid the check. When I whispered in his ear that he just gave the restaurant a 200% tip his seizure stopped and he resumed normal cognitive function immediately. No post-ictal state or anything. Medicine is awesome!
I’d just cut him a deal, when the boss man comes back pretend you gave him something, he insists on refusing transport, and you recommend he take it easy the rest of the day and get a follow up appointment with his PCP
@@Starlance_There’s usually a lot of ems where I live, so I wouldn’t worry about other people. But than again he called an ambulance to get off of work and may need a psychology evaluation with that boneheaded decision.
That's very humane. Most of us know what it's like to spend most of your life at work, only to be treated like a slave/property instead of like a human and our outside life ex. Family, leisure time, proper rest would prevent a lot of the mental breakdowns, anger/violent moments that have been happening alot lately. Faking an emergency is not the best way to get it, but imagine our stressed you have to be to go to that extreme for a well deserved break and not just two weeks out of the 52 weeks in a year😢🙏🏽
@@katiesmith2985 And still more reasonable and better than this people who fake an emergency so they get an (cost-free, Europa here) drive to an Doctors appointment in the hospital, because they feel not like getting there by public transport or call a taxi 😅
My father who was a paramedic for almost 30 years told me a story similar to this, about a kid at a high school who allegedly fainted and my dad was completely aware the whole time, so they brought the kid into the ambulance and my dad warned him that he can go ahead and pretend to be unconscious, but he will be disqualified from getting a driver's license due to randomly fainting. And the kid just *magically* wakes up.
Sad yet funny story but my brother has vasovagal syncope and his doctor has cleared him to drive. He can feel it coming on so he pulls over if need be. I always worry what will happen though if he's in the middle of a busy stretch of highway or driving a narrow mountain pass. Maybe put his hazards on? Idk.
Lol, something similar happen with my grandma from her living. She actually experienced real epileptic seizures, but sometimes she pretended to have them to draw attention to herself. At one point, she pretended to have a very violent seizure, and the paramedics were called. While she was on the stretcher, in the midst of the seizure, she suddenly exclaimed, "I forgot my handbag." She got fetch it and then she returned back on the stretcher and get back to her "seizure". I didn't witness it myself, but my mother and step-grandfather told me about it. Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me because whenever we had good times as a family and she wasn't included, she always did something to redirect the attention back to herself. She was quite a character, may she rest in peace.
You know, I hated landscape work, but I would never take time out of first responders who are severely needed elsewhere just to call it a day early for me. Not to mention if costs you everything you made that week.
@@NOWABOmusic if all of them don't have enough brain cells to not use it all the time and only for emergencies like Europeans is the reason why it costs money and it's not free in the first place, let alone $800
If I disappointed my father and he just sighed and said "This is the world we live in", I don't think it would traumatize me, but I would never forget it.
that would be horrible if that happened i am close to my dad we still spar after work outs. i would not trust any other man for life judgement besides the other brothers at a blue lodge or any mason lodge. @@andrewlance3898
His acting is amazing. Even when I try to remind myself that every character is the same guy, it’s hard to imagine. If he doesn’t have an acting partner off camera to react to in real time, but rather is doing each shot independently, I’ll be even more amazed.
Here in Quebec (Canada) it's CA$125, +$1.75 per km. For non-residents, it's $400 +1.75 per km. No fees for seniors. The State pays the balance. And in the event of a road accident, (SAAQ insurance pays for that)
My mom has had chronic back pain since I was 6 and i was diagnosed with chronic migraines last year. I would never fake an illness or health issue because I've experienced first and second hand of the problems that come with it. Something my mom always says is one day your faking it the next day it or something worse has happened.
You got me crying I laugh so much watching your videos!! Just when I think I'm done seeing your videos in my shorts another comes on and I'm laughing my a** off again. Thankx for the videos.😂💕
@@pbear7814 Black covers all sins, according to Hollywood and the democrats. Even quoting FBI statistics from the past 50 years regarding race and violent crimes get you banned on most of the internet.
i mean i dunno, 800 dollars for the ride sounds like decent enough accountability...pretty sure whoever owns the ambulance/paramedic service would be thrilled if more people did it
I could almost imagine that the following happening: "Right, better inject a muscle paralytic so that we can transport him. Might need to zap his heart a couple of times on the way though..." "No wait, I'm alright!"
as a cook who does catering i understand that man, fuck a 800 joyride to the hospital feels so god damn tempting vs a god damn dirtbag screaming at me or dealing with more entitled assholes
Unions are interesting. Originally they did a lot of good, helping people fight against big companies. Now, however, most unions are political monsters of their own who are in bed with the politicians and are controlled opposition working with the big companies while demanding employees MUST be members. Unions are no longer a good thing. I would never join one. And if required to, I'd find another job. And if a guy is willing to pay $800 for a few hours break, maybe he should find another job, too. But union? No.
Seriously, man. Your videos are pure gold. The cinematography, the characters, the heart. And you do it all with what, one other person? One of the best on the internet!
A couple weeks ago I had a horrible migraine at school to the point I couldn’t see out of my right eye, and I even forgot my mother’s name for a few seconds. It all felt so weird, but I eventually felt okay, but the school decided to call an ambulance even though my mom was already there and she could’ve just taken me. My mom told them we didn’t need it so they called off the ambulance, but we almost had to pay 800$ for something my mom could’ve done faster 🤦♀️
@@testsubject5990 I'm saying it's not going to cost you $800 to spruce up your resume, so you don't have to fake a seizure to get out of working a job you hate.
Yo, EMT guy.
I lived with grand mal seizures for 7 years. You guys have been the first thing I see when a seizure is over on many occasions.
I just want to thank all you first responders out there. You guys and gals are awesome.
Thank you.
Samme, 12 years of generalized epilepsy tonic clonic seizures. I had one hiking alone with my service dog (stupid decision but my dog found someone) and the fire department took me half way down the mountain on an ATV once I was conscious enough. Much respect for the fire fighters/emts/paramedics disturbingly underpaid. I've had too many interactions with them and the majority of the time I don't remember it, it's a badass gig wish I could do it.
That's amazing that your dog found someone! Did they bring them to you? ❤
@@mindybunny yeah she's technically not even a service dog either, she's a shelter dog that I tried to train as a service dog. She's seen a lot of my seizures but she honestly doesn't know how to do much she's mostly Shiba inu, they've got their own agenda. She is devote though, the reason I had a seizure was cause id taken a turn onto someone's personal trail and got lost so I started to panic. I'm guessing from her hunting DNA she's good at navigation and she wasn't lost so she managed to get back on trail and ran down to some people we'd passed on the way up who were working on the trail. They then followed her back up to me. It was amazing, definitely could have died from a fall when I tried to get back up if it wasn't for her. I'm always trying to get somewhere before I'm fully conscious and I was on this rock so I can only imagine the mess that would have resulted. At the very least I would have been even more confused with no way to contact help.
Most of my life with Grand Mal epilepsy as well. I couldn't have said it better myself. Paramedics do not get the appreciation they deserve.
I've been diagnosed with epilepsy and I get grand mall seixures. I've had it for 51 years.
Worst part of the job: The people.
Underrated comment
Worst part of any job.
Nah, worst part of the job is all the people we transport as a direct result of insurance bullshit.
No doubt about that!!!
In actuality, the bosses.
“Exhaling violence” is going to be my new favorite phrase. I’ve never actually heard someone explain this feeling so accurately. Thank you.
🤣🤣🤣🤟
“Exhaling violence” is my new fave therapeutic technique 🔥😂😂😂
Awww, aren't you edgy. Probably listen to black/death metal too. So cute, feel like you're scary? 🥺
@@tupakkaonhyvaaOh, get off your high horse.
@@tupakkaonhyvaa sorry, not sure who you are talking too? Who’s attention are you trying to get?
Had a situation like this once. Boss was pissed off we kept stopping to drink and refill our water bottles and threatened us with write ups. I just stopped refilling my water. Within an hour and a half I was waking up in the back of an ambulance hooked up to a banana bag. I sent him the bill with my resignation and a legal threat.
In any democrat state water breaks are a protected legal right.
I live in a state that has outlawed feeding homeless ppl, no abortion past 6wks, waitresses make $2.13/hr, made being homeless a criminal act, squatters have rights, a guy is suing his ex gf for gettin an abortion when she left him due to domestic violence, you cant get a divorce if you are pregnant. ... Plus many more.. my state is ghetto
So this main comment makes me feel like it happened in my state cause they be acting like drinking water while on the clock is a crime.. it can get up to 113° heat index right now..
Wow, America sounds like a 💩 country to live in.
@@Voland1871 Really shouldn't need a party to keep that up. It's also a human right to stay hydrated
www.un.org/waterforlifedecade/pdf/human_right_to_water_and_sanitation_media_brief.pdf
The fact that he'd rather pay 800$ than work another minute is concerning in itself.
How much do you have to earn for that being fine, instead of just quitting and getting another job.
@@KityKatKiller There are loads of reasons to stay, the main one being the lack of other viable options paying as much as the one you currently have.
The days of abundance are over, grandpa. Wake tf up lmao
I'd pay 800 for an Ativan drip lmao, shit is pure bliss you'll never feel better in your life
Yeah the fact that people hate work so much is definitely not going to pan out in humanity’s favor
@@GreyPunkWolf Lol I'm 25 my dude xD. Not really a Grandpa. Not even dad. I'm just saying if this is more than a one-time occurence it does majorly cut into your finances.
That's no seizure, my man became a worm.
Fr
Xqc style
hahah
My thoughts exactly.
Thats what i thought in the beginning
I recently fell on my longboard and ruptured my spleen. It was the worst pain I’ve ever felt, and I couldn’t breathe, but I refused to call 911 because I’m on Medicaid and I thought the ride to the hospital was gonna be like $5000 or something. So a lady who had seen me fall drove me to the hospital in her pick up. Because I didn’t come in the ambulance the hospital didn’t take my complaint seriously, they actually said that since I was talking that meant I could breathe fine. Meanwhile I was bleeding out internally and was told by a doctor who did the surgery later that I would’ve died if I had stayed at that hospital. My dad drove me to a better hospital, they did a CAT scan and found the internal bleeding, and then they rushed me to an even better hospital. South Bend Memorial Hospital saved my life, and the surgeon who did the operation was pretty furious that the first when I went to was just gonna let me die
Did you go tell the first hospital their mistake?
@@rryase well I was intent on going in there myself as soon as I was able to stand up for an extended period of time again. But my dad said that the surgeon said he was going to personally deal with that hospital, and he was furious. And he’s a very respected surgeon in the area, so I’m guessing his actions will have a much greater consequence than mine. I’m also thinking about suing them because a girl I work with had a little brother who went to the same hospital for the exact same injury like either a month before a month after me. Same thing they ignored it, sent him home, and he almost died. The hospital is terrible and has a reputation for refusing to treat people. They act like they’re just some family doctors office that can’t really do anything for you, despite the fact that they are a full fledged emergency room, open 24/7 with ambulances and everything. Something’s just horribly wrong there
The prices are disgusting and make zero sense. Purely a ploy to bleed you. Although obviously you can and it is recommended to get medical insurance.
Thank god I'm in the UK and we have the NHS (even if it is falling apart and also rigged and corruption. Aka they buy toothpaste and its back charged ar 10quid for a small travel size tube...when its a quid anywhere else in shops.)
@@orderofmagnitude-TPATP
I feel that, we (US) get charged $34 for asprin, or $18 for an IV tube. They gouge the insurance and the insurance gouges us, it's a vicious circle.
@@Shteven that's insane. 34 dollars for aspirin?
No doubt the NHS probably buys it for a similar price,when in the supermarket its anything from 0.79p for a generic version, but up to 2.99 for a brand name....
A far cry from 34dollars!
I was fully expecting him to be pretending to be a worm😂😂
He's probably telling the truth about the boss, considering the boss continued to work instead of keeping an eye on the guy on the ground.
We just had a situation, not too long ago where the manager set the employee can drive himself to the hospital. He was having a heart attack.
@@becky3484"Hey hey hey we don't need 2 guys on 1 project. You go over there."
@@becky3484 Some in fact do.
My uncle had a bit of chestpain as he put it, went to the GP, GP told him to lie down and called an ambulance. Uncle was like no no I will drive myself. Doc: You either plant your ass there and stay put, or I call all 3 of my staff to hold you there, tie you down if I must. No, you are having a heart attack. "I can drive myself I feel okay enough."
He got tied down that instant.
The boss was not working and was literally looking at the dude on the ground.
Boss was with him waiting for EMTs lol. He left to get his ID. Also notice how the guy on the ground says, "leave early" vs "leave on time".
Honestly if someone is willing to pay $800+ just for a break from work they probably need it 😭
Or very lazy.
@@BuckJackson-kc8pb lazy people wouldnt put in that much effort lmao
@@deylackbro it's construction if he cant stand the heat get a new job, also being lazy takes effort sometimes, the whole "lazy people wouldn't put in that much effort" is asinine.
they're just lazy, too lazy to find a new job....
@@H4L0GUY117you think everything is so easy
It's called find a new job or you can file a complaint with the Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission which normally results in you taking them to court, an if not settled later results in investigation especially if other workers attest to the allegations.
If bro was working in the heat for so long then I’m pretty sure he is legally required a break. That shit is dangerous.
You would think but lots of people get away with exploiting the people who work for them.
Depends actually if said person works in Texas then it's not legally required anymore. House Bill 2127 passed the state Legislature and Gov. Greg Abbott promptly signed it into law on June 14. The bill, which goes into effect in September, strips construction workers in Austin and Dallas of the right to water breaks every four hours and time to rest in the shade while on the job.
@@Darkness5423 that... thats really sick
@@Darkness5423that’s psychopathic
@@gothic_ace2037it's definitely gonna kill people
My husband had a seizure last year. We still don't know why. It was terrifying. Once he saw the out of network ambulance and hospital bill, he stopped following up and said "Next time just let me die" :(
Thanks for all you do.
I've got seizure disorder. I'm sadly in agreement with your hubs. My partner usually drives me if I have one longer than a minute or have a grand mal (I normally have absence seizures). Just ain't worth the bill.
I have epilepsy. So so so rare to die from one. The hospital can’t do anything for you once it’s over. I asked my neurologist because my family and work insisted on taking me to the hospital every stupid time. He said I only have to go if I injured myself badly or it lasts over 5 minutes (the shaking part, the very start to finish cam last hours, but the shaking is where you lose oxygen to the brain). If I’m lucky enough to come to before I’m in the ambulance I just reject it. Saves so much money.
@@katherinemurphree6858but this also depends on the situation. If someone randomly had a seizure they should follow up to see what it is. But maybe I just feel that way because I’m not American.
I also faked a seizure once but instead of calling an ambulance my mom slapped the shit outta me
yoooo this 😂😂😂😂
Slapping cures seizures
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Cool painting.
OMG LMAOOOOOO!!!!! I can’t I can’t I just busted out laughing IN CHURCH!⛪️ OHH MY MY OH MYY …. It was the pinching the nose try to hold it in but couldn’t. Thank GOD 🙏🏼 that is was during the greeting and I already sat down for the last 2 minutes 🤦🏻♀️ OOMG!! Pray”Lord I apologize, what had happen was … well… well you saw it” 🤣
The “exhales violence” gets me. That’s when you’ve been around long enough to not put up with other people’s BS. And also paying $800 just not be in the heat? Either he’s making a lot to shrug it off or he just really hates his job.
Or he figures he'll just stiff them on the bill
Or both.
He could get an inside job. I do data networks. I've worked outside less then 10 days in the last five years.
Or he has good insurance. I legitimately had to call 911 and have ambulance transport three times last year. Even though I was death warmed over and the paramedics couldn't find my pulse, I was still apologizing for needing them. I haven't received bills for the transport or the three weeks-long hospital stays I had.
lmao you are taking this way too literally
See this is what happens when you don’t have adequate worker protections or vacation days.
California has 3, and it increases to 5 this year
@@seanhartnett79compared to 30 like other countries
@@seanhartnett794 weeks per year PTO is the lower limit in Germany.
@@seanhartnett79Finally, California catches up to the rest of the world
Nahhhh fam. 👉🏼 *This is what happens when you are on state funded medical care.*
The last ambulance ride I had costed me closer to the $1300 range.
And how much of that bill have you paid out of pocket to this day? Likely $0.
@@abingham3747 the $1300 was my out of pocket cost
@@That1SupportiveFriend What did your insurance cover? I'm having trouble believing this. I work in ambulance billing and I've never sent a $1300 bill directly to a patient. We bill insurance, insurance pays off their portion, they might not cover all of it but if they don't we "write off" the remaining balance and send the patient an explanation of benefits after settling in insurance. If you were asked to pay a $1300 bill you are definitely the exception and not the rule.
Some bosses never let you take a break...
That would be highly illegal in any reasonable place. Either move or sue your boss.
In all fairness…landscaping is brutal and the landscape bosses are exactly like this.
That does not justify what he did..
I texas they banned water breaks this year 32 people died last year from dehydration and heat exhaustion in texas
Are you a stupid millennial or a stupid zoomer?
When a ride to the hospital sounds better than working with somebody, different questions need to be asked.
Edit: Apparently I stared a comment war, and I have no idea how.
He's doing it to beat the heat
I once quit a job because the day was too pretty to work through. The people were great, I'm just a millennial who realizes how easy it is to get another minimum wage job when you get sick of one 😂
@@gilwen13that's privilege. Some people can't find a job at all.
@@magicdawn1973 then they need to rework their interviewing and application skills. I'm socially backwards, have had many jobs for short times, there's nothing special about my qualifications, and I have still managed to always find a job when I need. There's no "privilege" needed when you have common sense and modest presentation of yourself😉
@@magicdawn1973that’s not privilege. yk how hard it is to nail interview after interview? just because someone can succeed at something better than you doesn’t mean it’s privilege.
edit: grammar
- "It's $800 for the ride to the hospital."
- "So? I didn't call you. Charge him."
That's not how billing works. Especially since the employee is agreeing to the ride to the hospital.
@@themadkatter technically the employee wouldn't be agreeing to the ride of the hospital if they're having a seizure.
That would be a nightmare if the people calling for help would have to pay.
😂😂😂
@@tumultuousv Implied consent
😂 as an epileptic I wish I worked a job that allowed me to afford a ambulance.
I had to keep fighting the ambulance rides off, because they were useless and expensive.
Same!
Fr same😂😂
I think my last one cost me like 15€ or something.
But then they wanted 800€ out of my pocket to test me, no support from the government, as if getting a licence wasn't expensive enough.
Still can't drive a car in my late 20s. Thanks for nothing, Germany.
Still feel shitty about this being a factor for you. It really shouldn't be *_that_* expensive. :/
If a boss makes someone this desperate, they're an abusive boss.
Or maybe it’s a lazy worker
@@valurimist9861 Lazy people would find that too much effort.
@@qwandary Why?
No such thing as lazy, except people being too lazy to try understand the underlying reason for a behaviour so they call the person “lazy”. If there’s a lot of “lazy” people around you, you might be the abusive boss in your life, think about it.
@@chelseafisher6881 Thank you!
I love that he’s just doin’ a jig on the ground like that 😂
The fact that an ambulance ride costs _anything_ is its own separate problem
How so? Fuel and maintenance requires laborers and their efforts. The time and skills of the paramedics should be compensated.
Even where it is "Free", it is not, it is just not coming immediately out of your pocket, but it is coming from your taxes, and more than $800.
@@trapjohnson I could see and justify the ambulance ride costing money if the average wage in America was insanely good and household debt was at an all-time low while the stock market was soaring.
The problem with people like you is you only see economic units instead of human beings. The "everything has a price" mentality only works when the economy is booming and people are paid fair wages. Otherwise you are just defending a broken and corrupt system that is sucking the life out of people through their wallets. Such systems can be accurately described as debt slavery systems.
Again, I could agree with you that the ambulance ride and other medical care expenses should cost people money if earning money was as easy and profitable as it by all means should be considering our level of technology and social development. Instead it isn't, meaning that money is being siphoned somewhere else (but to where? And by whom? you might ask yourself, were you a thinking man). So if the government and other institutional powers are engaging in corruption or allowing our national wealth to be stolen from us, the least they must do is see to our health and well-being. After all, if we are slaves (and we are) doesn't it seem like a good idea to keep us "in good working order?"
as californian our taxes should more than cover ambulances but that’s not the case big medical is just a business and it’s sad
@@marcocruz6210 pro tip, leave california.
@@trapjohnsonwe easily pay enough taxes for ambulance rides. I should not be paying fucking 800 dollars for an ambulance ride...WITH INSURANCE. Mind you insurance already subsidized by my taxes. Nah man. The medical care in the US is absolutely dog shit.
You basically triple pay on medical shit in the US. You pay taxes to the insurance company, you pay monthly to the insurance company, And you pay out of pocket. No. You pay way less per capita in a country where the health care is "free" and anyone telling you otherwise is lying to your face
The struggle of trying to leave work early is real. Sometimes, you just can't catch a break.
In Germany you pay like 10 bucks for the ride to the hospital and then 10 additional bucks for every day you stay at the hospital. Its law there for everyone to have insurance.
It's law here in the US for everyone to have health insurance, too. That doesn't mean it covers anything without paying $10,000+ out of pocket first. (I have the best insurance in my area and we have to pay $4,000 before insurance even starts paying anything, and then once we hit $6,000, insurance covers a lot of things, but not hospital stays, ambulances, surgeries, or procedures. We pay 20-40% depending on if we're at an in-network hospital/company. And even 20% of $60,000 is $12,000, so it's still super expensive for even a single day in the hospital.
Again, best insurance in my area.
EDIT: the law regarding needing to have health insurance has been rescinded
And this is why I wanna move to Germany.
@@HmmmmmLemmeThinkNoa quick google search says 8.4%, or 27 million Americans don’t have any form of health insurance. So… are they breaking the law or…
How do the destitute pay?
@@yrureadingthisname yep!
Yes, paying 800$ for a RIDE is indeed "the world we live in".
I mean, you're paying two highly trained experts who- what am I even saying, they get paid 1/10th of that even including the whole team and their benefits (like use of the ambulance) and rounded up. Charging 3 or 4x is normal, but 10x is extortion.
"the world we live in" let me correct this. "The country you live in" because in my country it's free.
The america you live in . Nearly no other countries have such a shitty system
more like $2000 lol
@@na2ifwell you pay through taxation but we understand the spirit of what you're saying.
When you don't care about an 800 dollar bill to the hospital is when you need to quit your job 😂😂😂
Doesn't that mean you should stay in your job? Since it pays so well that you dont care about 800 dollars?
@@LostOnceLefthanded you might be right 😆
„Yea that COULD be a seizure.“ lmao
And yet the most absurd part is an ambulance charging $800.
should look up how much it costs to give birth at a hospital, makes the ambulance cost seem like nothing.
Try 4× for absurd, Cali for ya
That’s cheap💀 I’ve have to get ambulance rides many times before cuz of my seizures (even tho we live just a few blocks from the ER) and it was up to 2-3k for the ambulance ride
32% income tax where I live, sounds stupid but hey, shit like this is free.
@@MrMonnyWe have similar tax rates in the US, maybe even worse if you're unlucky enough to live in California or New York, and it all goes into the pockets of politicians, who say that in order to get the services that other countries manage to pay for with much lower taxes, we need to raise ours to levels that make the Soviet Union seem tax free by comparison
My epileptic ass was going through the first half of this short like 'the man worked for the fire department for god knows how long and *this* is his seizure impression?' and the second half hit and it suddenly made sense lol
My sister is epilepsy so I've seen a lot of seizure in my life. So I was going through pretty much the exact same mental thoughts.
Also epileptic and had the exact same thought process 🤣🤣 I'm like bro isn't even gasping or clenching, come tf on now.
For the sake of knowledge, hope you know there are many types of seizures.
@@raizan5946 very much aware as I have multiple types myself (tonic clonics and absence)
@@kaitlynnetanner2811 my message was directed to the main commenter. But I'm glad that people know, and sadge that you have it. Hope your treatment is great.
you know if a guy is willing to pay 800 bucks minimum to get out from his job maybe there's something seriously wrong with said job's working conditions.
I was thinking the exact same thing. This isn't normal.
Or said person's work ethic. He literally said he wanted to leave early.
@@Kelly_Ben I think early means on time nowadays
That's because after insurance that $800 bill becomes $0.
@@abingham3747In what country do you live where insurance pays for ambulance transit in full? Certainly not the U.S.
The subtle wiggle/sqirm!🤣🤣🤣
Honestly, the cost of an emergency ride to the hospital is the most outrageous part of this video.
Here in Australia, I've needed an Ambulance to the hospital several times in short succession. (Necrotic Gall Bladder) The bill was $150.
Yeah the fact that it's only 800. Where I live that would be at least 1500 bare minimum.
Oh my hell, it is outrageous! I drove my own ass to the hospital with stomach paralysis, just to have the hospital pass it off as a stomach virus. They gave me an IV and charged me $3k!
I arrive at the same hospital 4 days later because I haven't been able to keep anything down for 2-weeks now and am still throwing up solids.
Finally they took me seriously and diagnosed the stomach paralysis correctly. Gave me another IV and some meds and left with a second $3k bill!
If they had just listened to me in the first place I would have only been stuck with one $3 bill, but instead they passed off what I was telling them and got screwed for $6k 😭 The system is fucked, doctors refuse to actively listen to patients, and the cost is unmanageable
You know free healthcare doesn't sound so bad doesn't it American? -Me a European who has to pay €35 In costs.
Ikr? I wonder where he lives that it's only 800. It's generally between 2k and 10k before insurance in the US.
Some days while working, I think to myself, if I shoot just one nail through my hand, I can go home.
If you turn the nail gun around, you can stay home all the time. 🤷🏼♂️
Crazy how a shit job will have you considering maiming yourself for some time off.
I've definitely weighed up the pros/cons of "accidentally" chopping the tip of my pinky finger off more than once 😂
@@Deffectedit's almostvloke corporate doesn't give a damn about people unless they are working. Because them if they aren't working when they are supposed to then they care
Therapy.
Do it, no one cares. 😂
He didn't even piss himself. 0 level of commitment 😂
That's not entirely true. Sometimes they do sometimes they don't. My ex was prone to seizures, had multiple when we were together and not once did she piss herself.
@devanbahnmiller5644 ... I'm aware. My 12 year old has a tumor on her brain, epilepsy & ESES. It was a joke, not a diagnosis. Thanks for the entirely unnecessary "well akshually" though. Hope it made you feel better.
Not once did I say "well actually" you're making fun of someone with a potentially dangerous lifestyle. Don't feed me with that sincere bullshit about your kid. Doubt it's true due to the lack of care you express. What you said about "0 commitment" was extremely unnecessary
@@devanbahnmiller5644as someone who has had epilepsy most of my life I agree with you
@@devanbahnmiller5644bruh you're taking this too far lmao 🤣 everyone knows you didn't say 'erm actually' it's just that you did something that type of person would do. Just chill bro
This is the best channel I have found yet!!!!!! I love your stories.
"People don't quit jobs, they quit bosses" said someone who is smarter and completely correct
Absolutely. Most of the jobs I've worked, I loved the guys I worked with, but management made it completely unlivable. Not just my direct boss, but random people in executive positions just sticking their noses in and making everything worse for no reason
"He never lets us go home early. Trust me, I've tried EVERYTHING I could think of and neither idea worked".
"We tried nothin' and we're out of ideas!"
Shit your pants. What are they gonna do?
“Actually, we’re gonna do a quick test to see if it’s a real seizure.”
*Picks up the shovel*
*ding*
So, there is an actual test like that. You hold the person's hand over their face and drop it. If they're completely unconscious, it'll land on their face. If they're conscious, they'll instinctually drift it away from their face so it doesn't hit them.
My ex-wife would stick an ammonia inhalant in each nostril and do a sternal rub. If that didn't snap you out of it treatment would begin. Great nurse but terrible bedside manner.
@@RachelDoesntknowi will let it hit me. ive let my hand hit me. but if you tickle me-
My late partner (who was a nurse) would take the cap of a pen and gently (but firmly) press it into the cuticle of a finger, not enough to damage anything, just like pushing the cuticle back for a nail job. It's slightly unpleasant, and it gets a reaction every time out of someone who's *not* having a seizure.
Interestingly enough, she developed the trick on me because I have absence seizures, and thought I was pulling her leg at first.
Aye gods I miss that fiery Brit...
Last time I rode in the ambulance I needed it. I have Cerebral Palsy and I was running to the neighbor friend to show off my floating Bluetooth speaker. Near her house I tripped over my bad foot, which turns inward when I move. And I fell and hit my head on the sidewalk so hard I cracked my skull and had internal brain damage ( hematoma or something?). I stayed in the hospital for 3 days. Spent most of my time asleep.
This is the world we live in because there are many bosses who expect humans to behave like machines.
Depressingly few correct takes in this thread. Employer abuse like this literally costs employers money, to say nothing of the greater costs to society. But many bosses can't be convinced of that because of the obsessive sadism required to become a boss in the first place.
They have figured out that we are the closet energy to perpetual energy. Make us make 50 cheeseburgers to afford 1 for yourself, build 50 homes to barely afford 1 for yourself, answer 100s of calls so you can afford a device to make few personal calls. Most people believe it to with the way they think they are divine are some forever conscious energy .
You can convince humans they will die if they don't be productive in mass production.
Meanwhile, even literal machines need downtime for maintenance and repairs.
I worked under many abusive bosses, so I wanna sympathize with this guy, but he did say "boss never lets us go early". Like, you expect to get paid for not doing your job? I do close up early if I get everything done. I have had many abusive bosses, but also many coworkers who abused the system too.
Even machines can't function in excessive heat 😅
Toxic workplaces can make you do crazy stuff!
“Can I still get that shot of Ativan tho?”
Fr... he should've kept quiet til after the Ativan 😜
😂 came looking 4 this comment
😂😂😂😂😂
@@jhnldr-mrn4562same lol
He would have forgot to go back to faking it
I like that most of the upvoted comments show solidarity with the worker and believe the intransigence bosses can have with them ❤🖤❤️🖤
$800 is a small price to pay to get away from some people.
…. not for your god damn living expense. Christ don’t humor this
Under rated comment. No idea why this comment only has 33 likes while another one saying some bosses never let you take a break..... has 10k
@@fionnbarrcasey5247funny
comment’s definitely passed the vibe check. red flag boss!!!!
800 dollars for a ride to the hospital, i was charged 3k and didnt even use the ambulance lol
Def depends on the region! My dad's neck of the woods, it's a couple hundred bucks. Where I've lived the last 35 years, it's between 7 and 12 hundred, depending on the provider
Always in shock hearing that as a german.... here its free o.o
@@shoutade9508 i dated a chick from africa and she says the ambulance wont even come until they get paid first
@@shoutade9508naja umsonst ist das nicht 😅
Es bezahlt halt die Krankenversicherung aus unseren Beiträgen.
Als Privatpatient zahlt man so ca. 450 Euro, wird halt dann erstattet.
Well, i guess im lucky to live in poland
$800 only?! The insurance billed my Dad $2500 to be transferred across the street from one side of the hospital to the next while his heart was failing because they couldn't take him through the hospital connector. His blood pressure kept dropping due to cancer pushing on his heart. He died 4 days later, and the insurance man on the phone said he didn't care. Someone was going to pay.
“And this is the world we live in” I could never pay for an ambulance bro, better tape an alarm clock on a car and drive me 😭
I just spit out my drink I-
😂😂😂 that's about the only way I'll be travelling to hospital as well. 😂😂😂
Tape an alarm clock on a car and drive me 😂
@@juliakrasinski Have you ever made something an idol, used God’s name as a cuss word, dishonor your parents, murder (God views hate as murder), lusting, stealing, lying, wanting something another has that isn’t rightfully yours?
Doing so we violating the law, which is sin, and because of sin there is a punishment…If a serial killer like Ted Bundy tells a judge of all the good things he’s done for society do you think the judge would let the serial killer off free? The same is with us; we’ve committed such crimes against God that we are separated from God forever; we are punished by suffering Hell for eternity, a place with no hope for us.
But God loves us so much and with all his heart that he gave his only Son, Jesus Christ, to this cursed world to be crucified on the cross. (John 3:16-17)
Now anyone who accepts Jesus Christ, God’s Son, as their Lord and Savior and believes he rose from the dead the third day will be saved from eternal damnation in Hell and live in Heaven in paradise with him forever.
Many will choose to follow Satan, whether it be because they think they won’t succeed otherwise or won’t have any joy or friendships, but he will soon reveal himself as a murderer and a liar as he was since the beginning and he will curse all his followers as he cursed God and all of Satan’s followers will be cased into ever burning Hell. Don’t believe this lie I too believed in! Our God is a loving God full of compassion, yet he is a righteous God with righteous judgment. (Matthew 13:41-42)
"And this is the world we live in." Damn I felt that on a spiritual level
"And these are the hands we're given.
Use them and let's start trying
to make this a world worth living in."
As a former EMT i've seen this so many times. Normally when some one's in trouble with the police. This or chest pains .
Good ol incarceritis.
Case of jail itis is what we always called it out here. Lol😂
@@acherem13 Acute incarceritis is our go to field impression for most trips to the jail. Either that, or it's an OD because they ate all their drugs when they got pulled over.
@@acherem13translate popped up and changed your incarceritis to imprisonment lol 😂
@@Whitecroc 99% of the time, the person is an asshat that is trying somehow to not be jailed for something they are imminently guilty of doing. I have never been to an LE call where LE was in the wrong. If anything, they call us too often to "just check out" someone at crime scene if the person even looks questionable.
It must be fun being your neighbor or just someone randomly passing by because they get to see you record these videos
I remember the first time seeing my friend have a grand mal seizure, we were walking back to his apartment from the store just laughing and joking in the parking lot so it was cement, he just looked up, started walking in circles and dropped and slammed his head and started seizing, I had to take my shirt off to make a pillow and then had to call an ambulance and I was so shook seeing my best friend like that I started crying idk why but I couldn’t help it, I was shaking myself. Seizures are no joke and until you see a loved one or a close friend have a grand-mal right in front of you, don’t do this. It’s disturbing and not much pisses me off but knowing that people fake them as much as they do makes me sick bro. I won’t forget that day. I think we were 22 at the time so it’s been 11 years and he still has them a few times a week.
I had a grand mal seizure on my friends couch & fell directly into her lap. I dont remember it at all but later she told me it scared the absolute shit out of her. Thankfully it wasnt my first because she at least was somewhat prepared. I like to joke that the seizures are more stressful for the people around me than they are for me, cuz I'm not the one who has to witness it 😅 Ive never witnessed one myself, but my parents once caught video footage of me after i stopped seizing and as i was sort of "coming to" and it was super freaky to see because I was trying to talk, but what i was saying made no sense and i have no memory of it or what I was trying to say
@@slitheen3 Dang bro im sorry you gotta go through it! And yea that was one of the first ones I seen my friend have but it was never that bad, and every time after that one, once he came to, you could tell he didn’t know what happened, where he was and why people were around him. Sadly my friend HATED the medics and having to call the ambulance (it’s too expensive for sure) but he would get pissed and then check himself out of the hospital AMA as soon as he was fully out of it. I panicked when I called an ambulance for him that time but he wasn’t mad at me, he was literally more worried because he heard how upset I was because it happened right in front of me and I was shaken up for the rest of the day and he spent that day trying to lift my spirits. It’s definitely sad to witness one especially if you are close with that person like a best friend or family member. I think that’s why I cried and even though I tried my hardest to stop the tears I could not help it, it was watching a friend almost die in front of me.
@@-BUGZ-the first time my mom ever had a seizure she was in her late 20s & my dad was scared shitless. He described it the same way; like watching the person you love dying.
Bruhhhh.
The " looked up and started walking on circles"
That's so fucking me. Like we all see the twitching and shaking but you never really hear about the minute before that can just be rediculous things seizures have us do
Yea happened to my with an ex bf I was 18 and he was driving through the taco bell drive through in my car and started seizuring from low blood sugar he was diabetic omg it scared me I work with animals but humans are scary
i did this once in the 6th grade to try and go home early, I walked in the bathroom and waited for someone else to come in and started acting like i was gonna pass out he ran and grabbed his teacher they called 911, paramedics and fire fighters showed up took a little while to check me out and they took me to the hospital to try and figure out what happened all to go home early… I didn’t get home till 7:00 that night.
My parents would nuke me off the face of the planet lmao
@@TiktokBurnedMyCrops my dad still thinks it was real 😂😭💀
My dude... just make urself throw up or something...
My friend showed me a video from Saw... the one with the face trap full of nails... I musta been in grade 3... so maybe I was 9?
We were watching it at lunch and the suspense was too much, I got sick and barfed all over...
Then got to go home...
Anytime I wanted to go home after I'd just... get sick lol
@@jaybee8862 lmao i know exactly what scene your talking about! 😂 although the sick excuse was played out by this time so had i called sick they would’ve told me to get over it 😂 honestly should’ve just sat my ass down for the rest of the day like a normal kid 🤣😭
I used to get nose bleeds out of nowhere all the time and whenever that happened the teacher gave me permission to do anything. Never went home though, that just meant more work the next day or for the entire week to get caught up.
I have epilepsy. I'm only alive because of firemen and emts. Thank you for doing what you do. Sorry for people like this. Some offense taken
That's completely understandable. I work in the ER and they drive me up the wall because they take valuable resources from those who need them.
I promise you that real seizures stand out a mile. I suspect people fake them (& seeing fakers is a daily occurrence for EMTs, firefighters, police and ERs) because it's a serious enough condition that we will react to it like an emergency, but they don't have to actually stop breathing/hack off a limb/ etc. They stand out a *mile* though. Most have never seen a seizure, so it looks nothing like a real one. They also don't realise that we have to find out the cause... The sheer number that miraculously "wake up" and are completely lucid and full of energy when I stand next to them and describe the tests I'm ordering is always a good indicator. I'm sure I don't need to explain why to you, but please know that we really can tell the difference and will always do our utmost to make sure that the muppets never impact your care.
Hope that your condition is under control and that you're doing well 😎👍
@t-and-p i appreciate the understanding. Thank you for doing what you do. I'm controlled but still have auras and sometimes those are just as bad. I had to be put in a coma to get the seziures to stop. The hospital left me alone in a room and i fell holding on to tailing and broke my shoulder bad. Years later and I'm still in pain. Moral of the story is don't stop your meds cold turkey.
@@ryangriffith1500 I'm really sorry to read about your experiences. That fall sounds painful! Sometimes we try and put patients into rooms for privacy, but it reduces our ability to keep a close eye on them. It's a tough one to get the balance right on and I'm really sorry that the facility got it wrong.
Definitely don't *ever* stop meds cold turkey - especially anti-seizure medications. It can be really dangerous. If that decision was made by the hospital, someone needs their backside handing to them...
Sorry to read about your shoulder. It's difficult to give any proper advice without seeing the injury, but were you ever given physio once the break had healed? Just thinking that it might be worth trying a heatpad on it and, if it makes a difference, then it'd definitely be worth getting hold of some physio exercises 👍 Dependent on how long ago it was, you might be getting a bit of arthritis in there, so supplements that support joint care might give you some relief and improve your range of movement. There isn't a huge amount of evidence out there, but a study a while ago suggested that glucosamine (a very common joint care supplement) can help those with epilepsy, so it might help you on both fronts.
Have you let anyone know about those auras? The fact that you said "sometimes those are just as bad" makes me think they're not stable (eg they come and go, and vary in strength). That could indicate that your medication needs tweaking, so it's definitely worth letting your physician know. Sometimes little changes can make a world of difference.
Hope that helps 👍
Same here
Be careful telling people that online though, they may not take you seriously, and then post a gif with lots of light in them
I thought he was going to say “who said i was getting a ride to the hospital?” “Just tell’em we need to leave early!”
As an epileptic myself I really need to thank the paramedics who save me every time, though I do have to say that it has saved me from work I didn't want to do 😅
As a fellow epileptic… I don’t know if it’s okay for me to laugh at this-
@@hockeyboys61The way people in history have treated epileptic individuals is just Heartbreaking. I'm not an epileptic, but I'm glad you can find humor in it.
@hockeyboys61 100% okay. As another fellow epileptic, it's an awful situation. But, being down and dwelling won't make it better. Make jokes, find a silver lining, you can still be serious about the topic when the time comes, but don't be upset. It took me a few years to learn that lesson. Was diagnosed at 13, I'm now 22. And sorry for the long comment, it's nice to hear from others
@@classypeanuts3352 no need to apologize for the length of that comment, because honestly, you summed up my thoughts on this. Because I always tried to take it as a joke, be funny about it, but every person who has seen me during a seizure, is terrified of this, and is unable to laugh at those jokes. Everyone who hasn't seen me during a seizure thinks it's just harmless fun, and so when I'm after a seizure, they don't really take it seriously. Basically it's very difficult to find people who fully understand what it feels like, and how I can be afraid of a seizure at all times, but also make fun of it at all times, so it's good to hear from fellow epileptics who do understand this feeling.
Wow so many epileptics
“Exhaling violence” 🤣🤣I should not have laughed as hard as I did.
Don’t worry I left hard as well!
I was in basic training, and we were all making our beds. A girl slipped and hit her spine on the bed behind her. Momentary pause, and then she threw her arms up and went into a full-blown seizure. It was the craziest thing I had ever seen. Couple of us yelled at other girls to get the TI's, and I yelled at a couple of girls not to touch her. She came back a few days after being in the hospital.
Was she allowed to stay in the army? What happened?
@@pennym1056 Sounds like Air Force BMT, and if she came back (and it wasn't just to pack up her stuff), they probably let her stay in.
@@pennym1056 You can tell what branch somebody's talking about based on the terms they use. If they say "boot camp," that's Navy or Marines. "Basic" is Army or Air Force, but "BMT" is always Air Force.
The names for the guys that yell at you for several weeks is another big indicator:
Drill Sergeant = Army
Drill Instructor (or D.I.) = Marines
T.I./M.T.I./Military Training Instructor = Air Force
R.D.C./Recruit Division Commander/Red Rope = Navy (fun fact: they're the only ones that don't get to wear the big Smokey the Bear hats all the other branch instructors get to wear).
@@pennym1056 Air Force (unless the Coast Guard calls them TIs as well). I think this would have been a week one or week two if the person was allowed to just come back and rejoin her current flight.
That's also assuming the docs decided it wasn't a serious enough problem for a medical discharge. If it was week 3 or later she would have been recycled (sent back a week) or discharged depending on the severity.
Granted, without the lack of details I'm speculating based on what I know (I was in the Air Force, but I'm an Army brat who lived with his grandfather during high school...grandfather was a Marine) so I call it boot. What I know is also based on when I was in (1999-2003, Honorable Discharge, "politely" (politically) encouraged to separate). When I joined I had planned to go career.
She probably fell because she had the seizure.
EIGHT HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR A BLOODY AMBULANCE!?!?!?
It costs more in some areas. As an American, $800 for an ambulance ride sounds like a low estimate.
Freedom! The freedom to go into infinite debt because you tripped!
Credit where credit is due. At least the guy knew not to scream "Help! I'm having a seizure!"
People like this are wasting emergency services time and resources that could've been better spent on someone that actually needs it
In the US you waste your own recourses when you call 911
Shouldn't cost $800 for an EMERGENCY
I don't understand why this isn't illegal and an arrestable offense
@@Partywithtoms Depending on jurisdiction, misuse of 911 is an offence.
@@mihajlo6489 Well yeah, but you still waist the emergency services resources as well, so it's double stupid.
My mom had epileptic seizures while my sister and I were growing up and I can assure you they were incredibly distressing to witness, and incredibly distressing for my mom to experience. I can’t imagine anyone willingly faking this disorder.
Edit: For the people nitpicking my wording in the comments, I guess what I really meant to say was that I couldn’t imagine anyone in good consciousness faking this disorder. Like, where is their shame?! Thank you to the rest who understood what I meant.
Is she doing okay now?
You can’t imagine people who’ve never seen nor experienced a true seizure to use that as an excuse to get out of anything? Really?
Students used to say their grandmother died to get out of class!!
I've had a couple seizures myself and while I agree they're scary for everyone who watching, from the perspective of the guy on the floor, you just kinda wake up groggy and confused like you took a long nap. Wasn't really scary
My stepdad used to have a kind of seizure where he wouldn't shake like what you think a typical seizure would be, but would like go completely out of it, blank stare, no response, sort of pass out, then foam at the mouth and eventually come back like he just woke up or something still dazed. It completely freaked me out when I first saw it, but he came back to before I got to the point to call 911
@Sevem7m those are absence seizures, I have those and a couple different types.
We had a frequent flyer in our district ho would fake seizures to get out of paying his restaurant tab. One day I’d had enough and while he was “seizing” I took three times the amount of the bill (which he always carried several hundred dollars in cash, it used to freak us out transporting him with that money so we’d always have a cop take the wallet) and paid the check. When I whispered in his ear that he just gave the restaurant a 200% tip his seizure stopped and he resumed normal cognitive function immediately. No post-ictal state or anything. Medicine is awesome!
"just put it on the boss's tab, don't worry about it!"
I’d just cut him a deal, when the boss man comes back pretend you gave him something, he insists on refusing transport, and you recommend he take it easy the rest of the day and get a follow up appointment with his PCP
Sod that, guy's wasting EMS time. I'd be telling his boss exactly what just happened.
You shouldn't be recommending people to use PCP. . . :P jk
@@Starlance_There’s usually a lot of ems where I live, so I wouldn’t worry about other people. But than again he called an ambulance to get off of work and may need a psychology evaluation with that boneheaded decision.
That's very humane. Most of us know what it's like to spend most of your life at work, only to be treated like a slave/property instead of like a human and our outside life ex. Family, leisure time, proper rest would prevent a lot of the mental breakdowns, anger/violent moments that have been happening alot lately. Faking an emergency is not the best way to get it, but imagine our stressed you have to be to go to that extreme for a well deserved break and not just two weeks out of the 52 weeks in a year😢🙏🏽
@@katiesmith2985
And still more reasonable and better than this people who fake an emergency so they get an (cost-free, Europa here) drive to an Doctors appointment in the hospital, because they feel not like getting there by public transport or call a taxi 😅
My father who was a paramedic for almost 30 years told me a story similar to this, about a kid at a high school who allegedly fainted and my dad was completely aware the whole time, so they brought the kid into the ambulance and my dad warned him that he can go ahead and pretend to be unconscious, but he will be disqualified from getting a driver's license due to randomly fainting.
And the kid just *magically* wakes up.
Sad yet funny story but my brother has vasovagal syncope and his doctor has cleared him to drive. He can feel it coming on so he pulls over if need be. I always worry what will happen though if he's in the middle of a busy stretch of highway or driving a narrow mountain pass. Maybe put his hazards on? Idk.
@@nobodyanon well hopefully he knows
@@nobodyanon I hope he's doing fine and hopefully doesn't ever have to deal with an incident at a bad place
@@Incognito_Blazer Indeed . . .for EVERYONE'S Sake ! Admittedly that's a very tall ask, to forgo driving because maybe ... possibly ... might... #LifeIsFatal
theese guys are very hilarious hours of laughter at work watching these guys
Lol, something similar happen with my grandma from her living. She actually experienced real epileptic seizures, but sometimes she pretended to have them to draw attention to herself. At one point, she pretended to have a very violent seizure, and the paramedics were called. While she was on the stretcher, in the midst of the seizure, she suddenly exclaimed, "I forgot my handbag." She got fetch it and then she returned back on the stretcher and get back to her "seizure".
I didn't witness it myself, but my mother and step-grandfather told me about it. Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me because whenever we had good times as a family and she wasn't included, she always did something to redirect the attention back to herself. She was quite a character, may she rest in peace.
That's not being a character. That's clinical Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
Was her name karen
@@fnafplayer6447💀
@@fnafplayer6447😂😂😂😂
You know, I hated landscape work, but I would never take time out of first responders who are severely needed elsewhere just to call it a day early for me.
Not to mention if costs you everything you made that week.
i do agree with him though, sometimes the job is fucking done, just let us go instead of wasting everyone's time
"Would you still love me if I was a worm?"
😂 I knew there was something too slow about that seizure!
The worst part is that $800 when it must be free. Never change America
If it was free, people would be doing this ALL the time.
@@NOWABOmusicit is free just depends on the health insurance
@@NOWABOmusic OMG, IT'D BE HORRIBLE! IMAGINE FREE AMBULANCES, EU COULDN'T EVEN DO IT!
@@TheSpiritedFendron You obviously don't know Americans.
@@NOWABOmusic if all of them don't have enough brain cells to not use it all the time and only for emergencies like Europeans is the reason why it costs money and it's not free in the first place, let alone $800
The way bro says "this is the world we live in" feels like a disappointed dad after kid disappointed him
If I disappointed my father and he just sighed and said "This is the world we live in", I don't think it would traumatize me, but I would never forget it.
that would be horrible if that happened i am close to my dad we still spar after work outs. i would not trust any other man for life judgement besides the other brothers at a blue lodge or any mason lodge. @@andrewlance3898
Truth
He's wiggling. I can't 😂😂😂
His acting is amazing. Even when I try to remind myself that every character is the same guy, it’s hard to imagine.
If he doesn’t have an acting partner off camera to react to in real time, but rather is doing each shot independently, I’ll be even more amazed.
The boss wasn't worried about the guy. He was worried that his business would've been looked into for overworking the employees.
hello
It was a $2,500 ride to the hospital here in California for me. It was a loooong battle with the insurance to get them to cover it.
Essentially a taxi drive, albeit potentially life saving
That's the US for ya
That’s nuts and I thought my husband’s $894.00 ride was bad
Insurance companies when they have to do the job you pay for😡😡😡😡🤬🤬
Here in Quebec (Canada) it's CA$125, +$1.75 per km. For non-residents, it's $400 +1.75 per km. No fees for seniors. The State pays the balance. And in the event of a road accident, (SAAQ insurance pays for that)
The snort he did as he went back into "seizure mode" sent me 😂😂😂😂😂
As someone with epilepsy, and many hospital rides, I see this as an absolute win
same tbh
My mom has had chronic back pain since I was 6 and i was diagnosed with chronic migraines last year. I would never fake an illness or health issue because I've experienced first and second hand of the problems that come with it. Something my mom always says is one day your faking it the next day it or something worse has happened.
As someone from Texas, it does in fact beat being in the heat.
This is the most lukewarm seizure I’ve ever witnessed…I love it
And the Oscar for the weirdest character goes ... to the man on the ground
People wouldn't do this if bosses didn't drive them insane.
“This is the world we live in.”
Truer words have never been spoken 😂
You got me crying I laugh so much watching your videos!! Just when I think I'm done seeing your videos in my shorts another comes on and I'm laughing my a** off again. Thankx for the videos.😂💕
$800? They charged me $1400 and I was 15 minutes away…
1400? wtf. it's free in my country i can't believe someone actually has to pay for that...
Mine is 3500…
Even worse when you realize that all you're even paying for at that point is the gas if they aren't actively treating you or giving you drugs.
You know you’re a bad employer when your employees fake seizures. This man has seen some things
Somewhere there is someone who really needs a paramedic.
Imagine having to pay 800$ for a hospital visit
They should be held accountable for a false call.
Like Jussie Smollett?
@@pbear7814 Black covers all sins, according to Hollywood and the democrats. Even quoting FBI statistics from the past 50 years regarding race and violent crimes get you banned on most of the internet.
He has to pay 800$ for it isn't that holding him accountable?
What's your solution?
i mean i dunno, 800 dollars for the ride sounds like decent enough accountability...pretty sure whoever owns the ambulance/paramedic service would be thrilled if more people did it
IKR
I could almost imagine that the following happening: "Right, better inject a muscle paralytic so that we can transport him. Might need to zap his heart a couple of times on the way though..." "No wait, I'm alright!"
My chief told us a story similar to what you said in training, yup. You know and they always expose themselves
"get the anal thermometer!"
As a landscaper doing 200hrs a month the whole summer, heat wave included, i understand that man...
as a cook who does catering i understand that man, fuck a 800 joyride to the hospital feels so god damn tempting vs a god damn dirtbag screaming at me or dealing with more entitled assholes
The problem isn't the poor worker, but the lack of unions.
Unions are interesting. Originally they did a lot of good, helping people fight against big companies. Now, however, most unions are political monsters of their own who are in bed with the politicians and are controlled opposition working with the big companies while demanding employees MUST be members.
Unions are no longer a good thing. I would never join one. And if required to, I'd find another job.
And if a guy is willing to pay $800 for a few hours break, maybe he should find another job, too. But union? No.
Seriously, man. Your videos are pure gold. The cinematography, the characters, the heart. And you do it all with what, one other person? One of the best on the internet!
This is why I work nights. It's either that or fake seizures every other day.
Clearly, there are only two options.
A couple weeks ago I had a horrible migraine at school to the point I couldn’t see out of my right eye, and I even forgot my mother’s name for a few seconds. It all felt so weird, but I eventually felt okay, but the school decided to call an ambulance even though my mom was already there and she could’ve just taken me. My mom told them we didn’t need it so they called off the ambulance, but we almost had to pay 800$ for something my mom could’ve done faster 🤦♀️
Meanwhile my mom who used to have seizures and multiple medical issues would fake being okay to not have to pay for ambulance fees😭
Y'know, it's cheaper and easier to spruce up your resume, right? 😂
No
Cheaper? yeah. Easier? I'm doing it now and I'm not so sure.
Said only like an NPC who has never once experienced hardship could.
Cheaper and easier to find another job that let you shrug off $800 like it's nothing?
@@testsubject5990 I'm saying it's not going to cost you $800 to spruce up your resume, so you don't have to fake a seizure to get out of working a job you hate.