As some of you may know, earlier today my Father suffered what appeared to be a seizure.

Since about 7am, he had been feeling very ill, with all the signs of the stomach flu. I was taking care of his needs through out this, and he had asked for a Soda so I got him one, turned out he wanted a water bottle, so I came back with a water bottle and less than a minute later (I'd of not been there if he hadn't said the wrong thing mind you) he yells in pain, grasping one of his hands with the other, and fell back on his bed and the seizure began.

He's had no history, but my Uncle died from a Seizure, to be more precise the lack of proper treatment - his children didn't know what to do so he ended up on his back the whole time and choke to death. Luckily I was there because he did vomit but I had him on his side.

The good news is as of right now he's fine, it was definitely not a fun experience which leads me to "Why the @ title!?"

The fucking paramedics were the biggest assholes I've ever met, condescending and rude the entire time. I explained to them the situation, and they immediately accussed him of overdosing merely because he had a baggie of weed. Who the fuck cares it's a little weed for his pain. One of them said he likely swallowed most of the pills in a bottle (as he has alot of empty bottles) and I explained that no he didn't I watched him he only took his directed medication.

After taking multiple times to get the information written down right which was down right pathetic, 3x to get our phone number? And you can't even get the fucking area code? What the fuck is that? They finally take him - to the wrong hospital - when we told him that he's insured here anywhere else would produce an incredible bill we couldn't pay - and it's CLOSER. And they STILL took him to a different hospital. AND to add insult to injury, they didn't even explain to my father what happened they just said he od'd, and when he attempted to explain what happened they literally walked away and ignore him. They signed him to be a junkie and treated him like shit. I really don't believe it - I've never been so disgusted with anything in my entire life so I had to say something somewhere. That's just out right pathetic.

The hospital did actual tests, and confirmed it was NOT caused by an overdose. I don't know yet what it was caused by, likely the illness he has contributed, but they do not believe he overdosed at all and found he had an increased white blood cell count and a fever - aka he's fucking sick.

So to all you Paramedics out there, I have the greatest respect for you, your job is hard and what you do helps many people - but fuck the ones I dealt with today!

/Rant