Anon is gonna carry that weight for a long time
Posted by Donovan_MC_DAB@reddit | 4chan | View on Reddit | 235 comments
Posted by Donovan_MC_DAB@reddit | 4chan | View on Reddit | 235 comments
teleologicalrizz@reddit
Imagine a man being afraid of driving.
Komplexitaet@reddit
most zoomers are
teleologicalrizz@reddit
that's fucked
Komplexitaet@reddit
i wonder what causes it
Sir_Celcius@reddit
Isolationism and never leaving comfort zones.
DeepExplore@reddit
Bruh if you ain’t a little scared of a few tons of steel and aluminum doing 90 a few feet beside you, quite frankly you aren’t sane
Komplexitaet@reddit
i dont drive though
CRCMIDS@reddit
Speaking as an emt, I can’t say he was in the wrong or in the right. Strokes and brain bleeds can be a matter of seconds. I can’t fault people for being scared in these moments. Most people will freeze up. Especially with family. There is no guarantee that him driving her would’ve made a difference. Even if she survived, the prognosis probably wouldn’t be the best.
Qualiafreak@reddit
It's not a stroke, those don't make you pass out and it's unlikely she would have had one. He called it a "blood cog" so he likely meant clot. Anon is on 4chan, he's likely 20s-30s, so likely his sister is too. Much higher likelihood of pulmonary embolism in that age group. Then it would have to be one that caused enough cardiac burden to cause her to pass out from a heart attack, which would be a massive segmental pulmonary embolism. Are there things you can do for that? Yeah. Do they work? Extremely small chance, but in absolutely optimal situations, like she was literally already in the hospital when this occurred. If she passed out from it at her house then there was absolutely no chance. Zero. It's not his fault.
Poor anon saw an absolutely horrific thing and there was nothing he could do. I'm sorry Anon. You will feel that guilt, it's human nature. It's not your fault.
VigilantCMDR@reddit
second this - hate being that guy but my career is in this. even if she was in the hospital when it happened there is MINIMAL chance she would've lived. we're talking 0.000001%. they'd have to find it before it clotted whatever but who randomly shows up to the ER for no reason? even lower chance they do a chest scan to find that clot after she shows up for no reason.
sounds just like one of those tough situations where we realize any of us could die any second and to be thankful for every moment we have and live everyday like its our last
Qualiafreak@reddit
Exactly.
MeowMeowMeowBitch@reddit
If his sister wasn't a whore, she'd still be alive.
WhenTheHahaFunni@reddit
This is why I love 4chan. Unlike reddit, people actually speak their minds.
Omgazombie@reddit
Has to be a Canadanon if the ambulance is taking 3 centuries to arrive. My buddy gnashed his hand open on a machete a few years ago and by hour 3 he called me to fucking drive him
Canada is a poor ass joke of a 3rd world country masquerading as 1st world
ThisSongsCopyrighted@reddit
I broke an arm when I was 12, fell off a wall. My parents called an ambulance and sat me on a bench as we waited. And waited. And waited. 50 minutes under the scorching sun, I could see my bone sticking out of my wrist.
We ended up taking a taxi to the hospital (which was TWO STREETS AWAY) and then they made us wait an hour. In emergencies. I sat there, with my arm broken and my leg bleeding, and the medics just walked by like "damn"
at least we got ice cream
LibertyPrimeDeadOn@reddit
Lots of places in the US are just as bad. Emergency services seem to be fucked in a lot of places, which does not reflect well on local government. If I can't rely on you guys to show up and save me from a heart attack, the fuck good are you?
oby100@reddit
Most ambulances in the US are random private companies with no association with any hospital. It’s really stupid because not only can they just charge you whatever they feel like and refuse to accept insurance, but if they fuck their business up and close up then whole areas can experience sudden ambulance shortages.
Some services are too important to leave to the free market and ambulances are one of them. There’s no guarantee any ambulance will ever come in the US
TalbotFarwell@reddit
Huh, that must be a different part of the US then. Where I live, every small town has their own volunteer ambulance company. Smaller cities usually have a professional ambulance company, while the county has a professional fire/rescue service with ambulances and fire trucks, etc. Bigger cities will have multiple ambulance companies, both volunteer and professional. All public, too.
The only private ambulance companies in my area usually exist to shuttle people between hospitals, or they take elderly people from their home to doctor’s appointments and routine hospital visits.
nicklor@reddit
We might pay a ton for it but my EMS in NJ will be there in less than 5 minutes
LibertyPrimeDeadOn@reddit
I'd be happy to pay for EMS more than pretty much anything else that the government does. I'd venture to say it's up there as one of the most important services offered.
RedOtta019@reddit
Nah man. You have no idea how worse it could be.
patstoddard@reddit
Our ambulances get to you fast, you’re just homeless afterwards
LibertyPrimeDeadOn@reddit
I had to call an ambulance just last night and it took 45 minutes
Vegetable-Money4355@reddit
Must’ve not been a dire emergency then, or you live very far from wherever they were dispatched from. If you were at real risk of dying they’d have gotten there much quicker. They get a ton of calls from druggies, the mentally ill, and welfare recipients for non-emergency issues, most of which are triaged behind real emergencies.
rkoy1234@reddit
this is entirely state and county dependent.
last time I called 911 I couldn't even get a person on the line for 20min.
I resorted to driving my very drunk ass and my hurt friend to the emergency room instead.
korc@reddit
Every time I’ve gone to the south it just kind of makes me sad
LibertyPrimeDeadOn@reddit
There were literally no ambulances in the entire county available for 30 minutes. I live in an urban area.
Vegetable-Money4355@reddit
That’s sad, but I guess it will probably start happening more now due to the drug epidemic and mass immigration. Just go to an emergency room at any given time, all you’ll see is tons of street people, drug addicts, and immigrants overburdening the resources.
BatmanBrah@reddit
Everybody knows America is a land of disparity and you're going to have shitty services living in nowhere Mississippi. It's not good, it should be better, but it's been that way for a long time. But in Canada you can see it coming apart at the seams in just about every major city in the country.
PM_Me_UR-FLASHLIGHT@reddit
Not every county in my state has an actual hospital and in a lot of places all they have are walk-in clinics open from 8-5, but I'm sure some places don't even have those. While they might have an EMS call center and a couple of ambulances, you're looking at a half hour journey to a nearby hospital at an absolute minimum, assuming they're flooring the gas pedal.
Diesel_Drinker1891@reddit
Just as bad here, in the UK. Can take half a day for an ambulance to tip up.
mwmwmwmwmmdw@reddit
the UK seems to love small narrow streets even in the middle of nowhere. i cant imagine what a nightmare it must be as an ambulance driver there
Diesel_Drinker1891@reddit
Not just that. It's the fact that they're seriously overstretched. The NHS wasn't designed or created for the times we're living in now.
1Hunterk@reddit
Man you silly. Depends heavily on WHERE you are and whYs happening in the area already. You could love 20 minutes away from your FD. Or you could like next to it, but they are already entire to the hospital with other patients because of a car crash.
Use your head, ding dong.
x111raptor@reddit
Could be Ireland too, exact same, only we haven't figured the arcane technology of basic public transportation.
TwoFingersWhiskey@reddit
Some countries are so poor that they don't even have proper hospitals, meanwhile in Canada we can fucking text or email 911. I think we're doing fine comparatively
Omgazombie@reddit
Atlantic canada is so poor they don’t even have proper hospitals, almost 20% of the Nova Scotia is without a family doctor, despite paying some of the highest taxes across Canada, I had to wait 12 hours in the ER while I was having a fucking stroke. LOL “I think we’re doing just fine” my ass
This country is actually a joke
I gotta wait in a Soviet era looking ass line multiple hours before walk in clinics open to even have a possible chance of seeing a doctor, and sometimes even that isn’t good enough because there were too many people ahead of you despite being 4 fucking hours early.
Maybe in cushy la la land Ontario where all the fucking tax dollars go it’s fine but fuck Nova Scotia, on top of all of this, they can’t even afford to fix the roads or change fucking street bulbs, provincial highways have been lights out for almost a fucking month, and even better they can’t even afford to put reflective paint down so when it rains you can’t see shit. It’s so fucking pathetic.
I’m living in a third world ass province despite living in one of “the richest” countries in the world
TwoFingersWhiskey@reddit
I'm in rural BC and also disabled, have experienced long waits etc. I still think we have it better than like, Zimbabwe or something
RedOtta019@reddit
Spoken like someone who lives in Ontario.
TwoFingersWhiskey@reddit
I live in BC
Magistricide@reddit
It really depends on if you're in rural or city area. If you're in rural, gl lmao. If you're in city that shit gets there in 10 minutes.
Batmanpuncher@reddit
Someone’s never left Canada lmao
Omgazombie@reddit
I have, the healthcare system here is just falling apart, especially in the Atlantic provinces which surprisingly pay the highest taxes
Ssyynnxx@reddit
that's true here for sure but it's bad as fuck everywhere else as well, failing industry
Kingofcheeses@reddit
Why didn't he drive himself? He's probably from Ontario or some unfortunate shit like that.
Omgazombie@reddit
Didn’t have his license or a car at the time, we were youngin’s, somehow years later and the system is in an even worse state of disrepair
Clack082@reddit
You'd have this same experience in a lot of places in the US as well, emergency services really depends on how far you are from a city or large town.
Triage is a big factor when you have limited resources you gotta consider there might be like two ambulances for a region and they're both tied up with life threatening emergencies, or has to be cleaned because the previous patient projectile vomited all over, there are a lot of factors. A hand wound is unlikely to lead to death, especially if you have the person administering first aid and they have a phone connection handy.
I live in the US and I keep a widget to route me to the closest ER on my home screen of my phone because if I am conscious and capable of driving it is always faster to drive myself.
It's also a good idea to have a tourniquet handy for a real emergency, you can buy them on Amazon for like ten bucks and stash one in your car and one in your bathroom or garage.
Limpopopoop@reddit
Thats what you get voting for the spawn of a cuck
xbbx@reddit
Boy....
Alkeryn@reddit
I don't have a driving license and i'd drive anyway to save my family. What a failure.
DeepExplore@reddit
Yeah, you should call the ambulance champ
Alkeryn@reddit
depends of the urgency.
i know how to drive a car, i just don't have the license for it.
DeepExplore@reddit
Your not qualified to even have an idea of what the “urgency” is. Call the people who do it for a living, unless your in bumfuck nowhere, then fair
Alkeryn@reddit
you do not know my qualification, and there are cases where this would mean the difference between life and death.
i may not assess urgency in all situation, but there are situation where i could assess with 100% certainty that it is an urgency and that the ambulance would not get on time.
and yes, i live in bumfuck nowhere lmao, though not the most remote i've been, i've already been to place where the closest hospital was a 1h drive away.
though the futher away i've been your best bet would have been to call an helicopter at that point if you could get network (ie in the middle of nowhere in the alps with no cell network).
DeepExplore@reddit
If you can’t drive a car your probably not an emt, sorry bro, how it goes.
If your in the middle of nowhere in the alps bring an inreach, the euros are good about helicopter coverage
Alkeryn@reddit
those two things are completly unrelated.
and i already told you that i can drive a car, i just don't have a license yet.
p4th_m4k3r@reddit
This is a level of weakness that is hard to believe. Anon should honestly go find a cave somewhere and live there like the worm he is.
DeepExplore@reddit
Ok p4th_m4k3r, Sorry I only listen to the first guy to get the name not the 175th or whatever
p4th_m4k3r@reddit
I usually never click on somebody’s name and look at their profile and chastise those that do when they then bring it up, but I accidentally misclicked twice and went there
dude lol you wrote a poem and then submitted it for feedback lol
What the fuck lol
DeepExplore@reddit
Aww I’m that special to you <3 well what’d you think 🥺?
p4th_m4k3r@reddit
Pretty fuckin lame
amir1234560@reddit
You're so wrapped up in the shitposting you are incapable of judging this(most likely fake) story rationally. Calling the ambulance and hoping for the best was the optimal course of action for him in that moment. He already can't drive for shit, and would probably get lost and it would take EVEN longer for him to get to the hospital than waiting for professionals, considering the stress and urgency of the situation. If he actually sat behind the wheel but then failed to get to the hospital in time, he probably would've already killed himself by now due to the sheer guilt.
DastardlyDachshund@reddit
Hey Google navigate to the hospital.
Imagine being to regarded to do this
amir1234560@reddit
melange_merchant@reddit
He has a license. He knows how to drive. Follow google.
Was him being afraid of changing lanes worth his sister’s life?
Croc_Chop@reddit
Ambulances have sounds that make others move out of the way.
eviljello1168@reddit
you'd be surprised
gman8686@reddit
You really think this limp-wristed 4channer is going to be able to drag his unconscious sister all the way to his car? He did the right thing and knew his limitations.
SpecialistParticular@reddit
Clearly he didn't do the right thing seeing as how she died.
gman8686@reddit
Bro, people die. I'm a paramedic. Sometimes there is nothing anyone can do. This is probably one of those.
rkoy1234@reddit
right decision in hindsight /= optimal decision in the moment.
This is such an easy concept to grasp. Why do people always get confused on this?
Aetherflaer@reddit
Why do you assume she would be alive if he drive her?
melange_merchant@reddit
OP himself is implying it in the post. Why do you think he’s regretful?
totally_not_ace@reddit
People can experience guilt or regret for a loss even if there is literally nothing they could have done. I knew someone who drank himself to death blaming himself for the death of his wife from cancer even though he did everything he could do as soon as he learned about it.
SpecialistParticular@reddit
Why do you assume she wouldn't be? At least he would have actively been helping instead of sitting on his ass while she expired.
Aetherflaer@reddit
He called trained professionals. Do you know the distance he would have had to drive to the hospital?
SpecialistParticular@reddit
Do you?
I live within a few miles of a hospital. I would absolutely be able to drive there faster then it would take for an ambulance to come and find me. You call me weird but you're oddly invested in defending this random anon.
Aetherflaer@reddit
TIL posting two comments is being oddly invested.
Inventor-of-GOD@reddit
I have my license but I cant drive too I just got lucky with test lol
dr_tel@reddit
Very encouraging to read
sax616@reddit
F agg cope
Dragoncat99@reddit
Unironically, I have an autistic brother who cannot wrap his head around google maps. He had to pick me up from someplace and I gave him the name of the hotel to put into maps and he got mad and told me to “just give him directions”. My brother in Christ, how am I supposed to tell you where to turn if I have no clue where you are??
indiefolkfan@reddit
Seriously, I have a terrible sense of direction. Like it took a few months of using Google maps to get to work after I moved to get the route down. But nevertheless anytime I've had to suddenly drive somewhere new all it takes is a quick Google search.
MainCharacter007@reddit
Yeah but most ambulances have medics and stabilisers onboard. That should’ve given her a higher chance of survival than lying at the back of a car.
Notmydirtyalt@reddit
Literally the instruction from emergency services dispatch will be to stay where you are and have them locate your location or address, they do this so that you can render first aid, reported the condition of the patient for relay to EMS and to ensure in a high stress situation you don't make things worse.
Anon is the big R-slur for not being able to drive, but frankly the matters here are two independent issues.
Also the fact anon wasn't told by EMS to report his sisters condition to them, and wasn't told to stay in one location rather than trying to drive to hospital means this story is fake and about as straight as the people reading this (Not at all).
GreeceZeus@reddit
He's probably also afraid of driving in bigger regions. I live in a smaller area where driving is rather easy but I try to avoid driving to the larger city close to me. Definitely not THAT much that I wouldn't drive my dying sister, but I do understand where Anon is generally coming from.
jesuselchingon@reddit
Fuck people like this are so irritating. I had to drive my roommate to pick up his car a few days ago. He wanted me to lead the way back while he followed me. I said fuck that you have a map (the place was 2 hours away). He said he didn't wanna get lost or take a wrong turn or some dumb shit. Bro if you can drive decently, and have a goddamn phone with a map on you at all times and you get lost, that's completely on you. Idk how people can be so regarded sometimes.
As an extra note, when we were about to leave the place, he asks me what the nearest gas station is. Mf I've never been to this area before how tf should I know! lol
RedOtta019@reddit
I give much thought to why many people are directionally challenged, I think its laziness? It takes effort but its pretty important to independence. Maybe its people who’ve gone all their life being told what to do and how to do it?
didnt_read_the_title@reddit
It's the same reason a lot of people my age don't remember phone numbers. As a kid I remembered a few, now they're in the phone. You gotta make an effort to break a dependency.
When it comes to directions, my friend and I unintentionally became an interesting anecdotal case study. We both moved out to LA in his car. Since he drove around, I took public transit. While I'd sit on the bus or train, I'd need to know where to get off and what streets to look out for. By the time I got my car, I knew the map like the back of my hand and he still uses GPS to get pretty much anywhere. He says it's for traffic which I get in some instances, but if you took the phone away he'd be lost.
RedOtta019@reddit
I only remember my moms number cause of her memberships 😝
Yah I use my google maps to check for traffic and ETA (speed traps too lol) but after being a passenger to some of those kinds of people, they are kinda dangerous to drive w/ and sometimes they really shouldn’t be following their gps at times.
U-Botz@reddit
Not everyone has google voice activation.
Imagine being too regarded to use the correct spelling of “too’
DastardlyDachshund@reddit
Of course I'm regarded its a condition of entry here
daemon-of-harrenhal@reddit
Holy copes batman
RedOtta019@reddit
This is definitely toxic masculinity, but I absolutely believe this is a case of not manning up. As a man you are responsible for the people around you.
When I hear of young men not getting their licenses, something increasingly common, I think of situations like this.
Colonel_Potoo@reddit
Not really.
DastardlyDachshund@reddit
Men in the 50's had that attitude and now we have feminism
RedOtta019@reddit
Its not about women, id say the exact same thing if it were a brother. Its about being there for people at their most vulnerable.
DastardlyDachshund@reddit
Damn this really is a christian forum
RedOtta019@reddit
Im not Christian, but why write it off as such? I have heard much more idle behavior encouraged than anything else from Christians.
DastardlyDachshund@reddit
You're not very good at jokes are you?
Also you could shorten all of that text down to, don't be a cbomb
RedOtta019@reddit
It do be kinda hard to read tone on text 🤷♂️
Yabboi_2@reddit
Being a man has nothing to do with it. An older sister would be responsible for the younger brother if he was sick. Get out of your bubble
RedOtta019@reddit
In my experience women don’t typically need to be told the obvious
BBQcupcakes@reddit
You'll get there
RedOtta019@reddit
Then you accept yourself as a selfish responsibility.
Mudbandit@reddit
Tech savvy enough to shitpost on an imageboard but cant use google maps?
newbreed69@reddit
Also ambulances can move faster cause they can go above the speed limit and also the traffic moves out of the way for them.
And paramedics are trained to treat blood clots.
Even if op was competent in his driving skills, it depends on a few other various factors.
BBQcupcakes@reddit
Not judging him for this action specifically, but for not developing the necessary skills for emergency situations. This was just the manifestation of his inadequacy.
sillyyun@reddit
He can drive, he has a license
LightninStrike312@reddit
Lol its easy to sit there and hyper analyze everything after it happened. At the heat of the moment your little sister is dying and you're literally too afraid to drive, thats on you and you alone
DefinitelyNotPine@reddit
Plenty of women are too afraid to drive
Limpopopoop@reddit
Plenty of women who have never driven would have had the balls to drive anon to the hospital.
Anon is a piece of shit. Bet votes Kamala
Hideus_Ex@reddit
Rent free.
Limpopopoop@reddit
Wot?
Aetherflaer@reddit
Not sure why you are assuming this person is so intelligent.
centurio_v2@reddit
this creature does not vote
PeterFechter@reddit
Probably scared of a voting booth.
Fisherman_Gabe@reddit
White Dudes 4 Harris' strongest warrior
Plus_Garage3278@reddit
Happy cake day 🎂
__cum_guzzler__@reddit
being too afraid of mundane tasks to save your loved one is a trait that should filter anon's genes out of the pool. i mean it.
if you are useless in a crisis, who the fuck needs you?
DefinitelyNotPine@reddit
Another characteristic they don't have. I was stopping my dog's bleeding while my mom was supposed to call the vet. I stayed there 10 minutes with the smell of blood piss and shit, went around to look for her and she was washing the blood off the floor. The bleeding stopped (nothing serious, a small surgery cut opened) so I just drove it to the vet
NotAnNpc69@reddit
If he knows he cant drive for shit, no point risking it and crashing (on top of his sister already dying on him) and maybe even taking a few more innocent lives along the way.
leastemployableman@reddit
Anon did the right thing. Paramedics would 100% get there faster than Anon would've. Even more so if he lives in a Metropolitan area. Cars will move for an ambulance but aren't so likely to move for some fucko in a car. At least if the paramedics got there quickly enough they could've mitigated the harm done, also him being on the phone with 9-11 while waiting for the paramedics means that they can give him instructions on how to handle the situation (chest compressions etc)
LewdDarling@reddit
Did you miss the part where the ambulance took a long time to get there? 2nd grade reading level huh?
If it was a time of day where there was lots of traffic then sure, ambulance gets there faster. But when it's not busy then lights and sirens only save a few minutes, it's better to drive yourself since you can leave immediately instead of waiting for the ambulance to get there.
doodwtfomglol@reddit
It's honestly crazy how cripplingly afraid of driving some people are
Not having a license by age 21 is a huge red flag
doxenking@reddit
Spoken like a true psychopath.
Diesel_Drinker1891@reddit
If it's real, he's going to suffer for the rest of his life, as it'll always be there in his mind, somewhere, no matter what.
ElderChildren@reddit
have experienced similar personally, and he absolutely did the right thing. there was very very little chance of saving her, if any at all, from the beginning.
Neku_Sakuraba@reddit
I never get it when people say shit like they'll get lost trying to get somewhere. It's fucking 2024. Literally every modern phone on the market has some navigation at this point, it's inexcusable to claim that you'll get lost. After emergency services were a no-show for like 10-15 minutes he should have driven his sister to the hospital.
DeepExplore@reddit
This dude doesn’t go places with no signal lmfao
Neku_Sakuraba@reddit
Yeah right? Genuinely no excuse on his part
SlaveOne2020@reddit
I think most anyone would call 911
DigitalCoffee@reddit
How tf to people get lost with phones? They literally make it so a monkey can operate it.
DeepExplore@reddit
Phones require signal, some people live places or have to drive some place without signal. Gps can pinpoint you but good fucking luck if the map doesn’t load
0oozymandias@reddit
Anon rationalized, in a panic, it would be best to rely upon the people known for fast patient extract instead of getting lost because he didn't know the way to the hospital and people here are acting like he deliberately let her die.
BRVL@reddit
Is google maps not a thing? Who gets lost nowadays?
Dark_Pestilence@reddit
You do realise what sub you're on right?
SolasilRysotho@reddit
r/4chan
Dark_Pestilence@reddit
You do realise what sub you're on right?
SolasilRysotho@reddit
r/4chan
Dark_Pestilence@reddit
You do realise what sub you're on right?
SolasilRysotho@reddit
r/4chan
CplKangarooHaircut@reddit
What do you think the odds are this English speaking person, posting on the internet, does not have a gps in their pocket?
CagataySarp@reddit
its a loose loose situation.
CplKangarooHaircut@reddit
Yea your right I guess the alternative was definitely better
CarlotheNord@reddit
Ya. My take away from this whole shitshow is that he tried to pick the safest option in a bad situation. This just as easily couldve been a story of "I tried to drive my little sister to the hospital but I got lost instead of just calling an ambulance."
Ideally he would know the way to the friggin hospital, and he is in desperate need of some balls, but he didn't really make the wrong choice per say.
Adiin-Red@reddit
It could also have easily been a “I got in an accident trying to drive my sister to the hospital, her blood is on my hands”
sillyyun@reddit
He was sorta justified in not calling them, but his guilt is justified tbh
placeholder-123@reddit
Yeah it's infuriating. They're acting from the safety of their keyboard that, for sure, THEY would have taken the right decision, which might not even be the right decision anyway. If anything it's the hospital's fault for taking their sweet time.
ProstheTec@reddit
I was an EMT... I didn't trust most of my colleagues and it is one of the main reasons I quit. The amount of incompetence was astounding.
halo364@reddit
I was also an EMT for a bit, and tbh I'm not sure how much a standard ambulance crew would have been able to do in this situation (other than - hopefully - driving competently). Maybe if there was a medic on board they'd be able to do something about it but for a sudden and severe stroke the most a basic EMT can do is give some O2 and get them to the ER ASAP (+maybe some baby aspirin but I'm not sure if I'm remembering that right)
ProstheTec@reddit
True.
JessHorserage@reddit
Oh totally, but anon doesn't know that, esp when panicking.
ProstheTec@reddit
In all honesty, the average person is even more incompetent.
JessHorserage@reddit
People are fine, ProstheTec.
Dragoncat99@reddit
Anon has a phobia, full stop. If you have a fear so intense that it negatively impacts your life or ability to function, that is borderline mental illness. And ngl, it bugs me that a lot of people here are making fun of him as if he has control over that.
iAmDriipgodd@reddit
Why is his little sister getting blood clots at such an early stage in life?
Dragoncat99@reddit
The reasons others mentioned are probably it, but I’ll also bring up genetic predisposition, since I’m a victim of that myself. I inherited an MTHFR gene mutation from my dad that increases my chances of having blood clots. My dad’s on constant blood thinners and still had a pulmonary embolism.
Atomh8s@reddit
Triple vaxx3d
c__man@reddit
Birth control, smoking and obesity is the trifecta of huge clot risk in younger women. Obviously don't know the whole picture here though.
Qualiafreak@reddit
^ This is correct. Virchow's triad.
Donovan_MC_DAB@reddit (OP)
In the original thread they gave answers as to why and I’m sure you know what the answers were.
tinrooster2005@reddit
She'd of died either way, ambulances also take forever, have poor availability.
CEQQQNT@reddit
If I know I'm useless behind the wheel I don't see why I wouldn't beg my neighbors to drive my family member to the hospital. I'm positive a complete stranger would drive us to the hospital. Were they also scared of asking a neighbor for help??
tokcliff@reddit
Wow people here have no empathy
mwmwmwmwmmdw@reddit
or know how much it burns to say 'yea you fucked up' in a situation like that.
this isnt like 'shitting your pants and ruining the birthday party' kind of fucking up
CorruptedFlame@reddit
Aren't ambulances literally meant to be faster than driving yourself because they can ignore most traffic laws to go fast?
why43curls@reddit
You can ignore most traffic laws yourself if you have the balls. Anon didn't.
Due_Title_6982@reddit
Except other cars won't clear the way and you will probably crash thanks too driving too fast and being under stress
why43curls@reddit
Yeah, I'd do what Anon did in this situation knowing traffic patterns in my area. I couldn't get half the distance an ambulance does if I drove on the sidewalk
Batmanpuncher@reddit
Yup I’d take a reckless driving charge over a dead sister any day
RedOtta019@reddit
Hell, most cops will escort you if you flash your emergencies.
treadmarks@reddit
I ignored all traffic laws to rush a sibling to a hospital once. I ran right into a police detail that pulled me over and made us wait for an ambulance.
YouButHornier@reddit
Interesting. Im pretty sure here in Brazil you are allowed to ignore traffic laws in an emergency. My dad was speeding me to the hospital when i was little, so the cop that stopped us let him go once he knew what was happening
RedOtta019@reddit
What an ass.
RedOtta019@reddit
They have to get to you first
DontYouWantMeBebe@reddit
Yeah, he must've said she passed out or something vague to the operator. If you say someone's not breathing they turn up quick
FnTom@reddit
Very likely not on him. A lot of cities have severely overstretched EMTs. If you look a bit, you'll find plenty of articles about people having a heart attack and waiting 3-4h for an ambulance because it was a busy day.
alepolo101@reddit
This… make sure if something serious is happening that you say it’s serious, ambulances triage. Even if you think it’s nothing but you have chest pain and are getting lightheaded, don’t say oh I feel a bit lightheaded say you have a pinch in your chest… they might triage you very low one way and very high the other way.
Keep the emt up to date if anything changes, don’t be afraid to say too much to them, and always comment on breathing/pulse.
Drapausa@reddit
Plus, when arriving, they can start stabilising the patient, and during the drive, they can also administer help. Ambulance is always the more sensible choice.
HiveMindKing@reddit
It’s actually not talked about enough how fear shrinks your ability to impact the world both for yourself and others. I’m not suggesting people beat themselves up but maybe find ways to overcome their clear areas of deficit.
FullTimeHarlot@reddit
See you, space cowboy.
Lastburn@reddit
Whys anon pretending he's living in the 19th century lmao , just put on google maps on your phone
Amazing_Measurement6@reddit
So he either has to watch his sister die at home or in his car, its a lose-lose situation.
AnalBlast2@reddit
most sane r fuckcars user
Various-Positive4799@reddit
Now anon is an only child like me based ditch that parasite
havenothingtodo1@reddit
I mean I wouldn't be afraid to drive but I would assume that an ambulance would always be quicker than me driving.
Ryanhussain14@reddit
Ambulances are supposed to be quicker than driving, that’s their entire fucking point. The problem is that so many countries have such dogshit infrastructure that ambulances take hours because some parasites keep embezzling the money.
No_Entertainment2934@reddit
Some people don't drive because they're afraid of driving, I don't drive because it's stupid when I can just walk the four miles to work.
Money's tight, and a car's just as much a financial black hole as kids are, you gotta consider gas, antifreeze, oil, window wiper fluid, interior seat covers, a sunshade, a rainy day fund for when it inevitably breaks down in a way that nobody has ever seen, so the mechanic has to consult OTHER mechanics and charge out the nose to fix a part that even a lifelong gearhead didn't know existed, another rainy day fund for tire replacement incase I pop them...Just not worth it when we've been walking places as long as we've been on this Earth.
quasarfern@reddit
It be what it be. Go take a practice drive to the hospital everyday as penance
Youra3p14@reddit
I might actually do this instead of fumbling around with gps when the time comes for it.
TheNewOP@reddit
Typing hospital into Google Maps is gonna take like 2 minutes max. Probably takes longer locking the doors on your way out while lugging someone over your shoulders.
YouButHornier@reddit
Not on my old ass phone. This way its my phones fault and mine if any siblings die ( i cant drive)
TacoMedic@reddit
Balthazar3000@reddit
Yea that's definitely one of the places you need to know how to get to. Or at least an emergency care place.
Telamo@reddit
That’s actually good advice. Seeking his peace while simultaneously overcoming his weakness to become a better person down the line. Can’t bring the dead sister back, but you can at least honor her memory in that way.
MagicCitytx@reddit
Depends on how much she weighed, could anon pick her up easily ?
thetyphonlol@reddit
What anon didnt say is they were late because he got topped by the mesics
vitaooman@reddit
50/50
sanghelli@reddit
I hope this story isn't true
Steaminmcbeanymuffin@reddit
It’s not. And everyone getting worked up about is gay
Qualiafreak@reddit
If she passed out the odds of her surviving are basically zero. It's not your fault anon.
ionevenobro@reddit
How do you fuck up a typo that bad. Clot. Cog.
Komplexitaet@reddit
not a typo. She was into blood magic and technomancy
Big_Slop@reddit
Holy fuck. When I was 14 or 15 my grandpa had a heart attack on the way to church so I ended up driving him to the hospital because he’d been teaching me to drive on the Tacoma in a parking lot recently.
I fucking destroyed that clutch ramming the thing through traffic with a heart full of fear and a chimp’s understanding of operating a manual transmission, but I got him there and he lived a long time afterward.
Anon should probably dedicate their life to softening the grief of their parents who lost the better child.
Grand_Caregiver@reddit
How is it anons fault for deciding to call the people you literally are supposed to call in an emergency? Like, the sole reason we have ambulances? ALSO, ambulances are designed not because they go fast, but so that patients can get in-transit care, something we can provide in our cars. So its almost always better to wait for the professionals. Sounds like anon was failed by the medical response system
PutinBoomedMe@reddit
Why is this screen shot so crystal clear and sharp? I've never seen a post that wasn't potato quality on here
UniversityEastern542@reddit
That's a bs response. It depends on lot on where you are, but in developed countries, average EMS response time in major cities is less than 10 minutes, and less than 30 in rural areas.
He also would've had to get her into the car by himself and risked getting pulled over if speeding, wasting further time.
Driving yourself for life threatening injuries only makes sense if you're in rural areas or places with poor EMS response times. EMS is pretty quick, and can administer aid en route.
United-Advertising67@reddit
Sister died because anon was a weak anxiety ridden soybeing incapable of useful action. On brand.
keeleon@reddit
"Free healthcare"
N4PSTABLOG@reddit
Did I spotted a cowboy bebop reference?
DownRUpLYB@reddit
If the same thing happened to me, my first thought would be to call emergency services, who would, naturally, dispatch an ambulance.
Yellow_Shirted_Kid16@reddit
The extremely rare genuinely sad r/4chan post
GrandLadofDelights@reddit
I have a sister and I would speed on the road with no hesitation. OP is pathetic and will never make it right.
SlySychoGamer@reddit
Ok simulation i see you.
A close family friend died of a blood clot recently as well...he however was being a stubborn ass and demanded his wife not call 911 or drive him to hospital.
She eventually tricked him into the car (after hours of vomiting blood and shit) she called 911 and he was unresponsive halfway through the awareness test. He died a week later.
He was very much the 'patriarch' and was very dominant so no one blames the wife, we all knew he was the epitome of know it all stubborn ass, but ya, i mean his family and him even knew he had crazy high BP, but nope, no meds, cause "i don't need no doctors"...ya...
P.S he only drank soda and was in his 50s, never drank water, cause "sodas wet it has water already"
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ConsiderationBasic42@reddit
At least you have the internet
wonderhorsemercury@reddit
Sometimes reddit is the better answer
MichaelScotsman26@reddit
No GPS? wtf???
Davidoff1983@reddit
Driving. One day future bros will laugh like hyenas at out pathetic culture.
Azymtez@reddit
Dedicated passengers are the worst
Frijid@reddit
Heh, sorry sis... my sense of orientation just ain't good enough
CrashCourseInPorn@reddit
This has to be bait, no way Anon can’t use google maps
ptitty123192@reddit
You did, Anon. Live with that burden and make sure you never repeat it
Impressive-Hat-4045@reddit
Unless he has another sister it feels like that situation isn’y going to crop up again.
KamelLoeweKind@reddit
3 sisters to go
zczczvzcv@reddit
Going for that m-m-m-monster kill
zczczvzcv@reddit
Probably out of sisters though.
futuremillionairess@reddit
How are people this pathetic 🙄
smegmancer@reddit
Some people are better off not being.
Urmomsjuicyvagina@reddit
A cowboy Bebop reference
KingMysoFutureHdrx@reddit
you guys are aware that he’s trolling right? 🤣
ghostlikecrime@reddit
Average fuckcars poster
LoadOk5992@reddit
I wonder if anon's family knows it's their fault...