Just When You Thought You Were Safe (make sure you read it with a dramatic movie voice)

So, I have to tell you about one of the calls we had last night.  It was very memorable and a lot of fun.  Initially I didn't think of it as anything special, because it was dispatched to us as a "traumatic fall".  When we get calls dispatched as falls it is usually for drunks or geriatrics (old people) falling and it's usually not that exciting.  This call, however, was a little different.

As soon as we realized that the complex was a sort of retirement community I started thinking through the possible causes of a fall in an older person (cardiac problems, stroke, Alcohol, etc), none of which were even close.  Fire had arrived before us and as we approached the apartment we heard a woman yelling for help and some very loud banging, which turned out to be the fire department breaking down the woman's door.  Several security guards were also present and I started wondering if we had some type of domestic abuse going on.  When we walked into the room, however, we found only one person; a heavier set woman in her night gown, but she was not simply laying on the floor.  She was trapped under her power chair, with her night gown wrapped up on of the wheel.  

Apparently, she had been driving around as usual in her chair getting ready for bed when her new long gown caught up in the wheel.  Before she realized what was happening she had been pulled off the front of the chair and right into its path of the monster.  It rolled over her left leg, pinning her just, luckily, just inches from here purse.  After retrieving her phone from her purse she decided to call her son (in florida) so he could get her an ambulance, since she had forgotten the number for 911.

After rescuing her from her attacker, we checked her out and everything turned out to be totally fine.  No real injuries, however, we did take her and her chair to the hospital just to be safe.  She was a really funny lady and we laughed about the whole thing all the way to the hospital, but she was a lucky one.  Let it be a lesson to all to watch your backs, you never know when technology will turn on you. 

Me and the culprit