Trying to write something that we consider funny but others will say " you're sick for laughing at how that person died" sure was hard. Took me 2 days of going over events. Here's one about hoarders..........
While working OT for another crew we had a choking call at night. As we pull up, I see BIG piles of dog shit all over the drive way and a Rottie mix barking at us on the stairs. With that many landmines we all had our flashlights on and I grab the O2 bag to keep the dog occupied while one of the guys goes around and shortens his leash. We get up to the door and the sight we see just is AMAZING!
Food, rotting food, rotting plastic grocery bags sticking out from the continuous pile, clothes, roaches, flies, canned food, something that resembles vomit oozing out of the pile. This pile runs the length of her living room, around the corner and disappears. It's frickin' as high as my chest and none of us can walk through unless we turn sideways and shuffle in. That's a good sign that she goes outside, at least. Or someone comes and visits.
I've seen the "Hoarders" show on TV, but nobody did what this lady did. She had her bedside lamp plugged into an extension cord that was bread tied to the wall, across the ceiling over the pile of crap, and somewhere in the kitchen it ended.
As we started our medical baseline she was talking a little so that meant whatever she was choking on came out. As one of the guys asked, "what were you choking on maam?" CHICKEN BONE was her reply. I look down at the ground by her daybed..........................
So many little chicken bones on the ground by her feet you could build at least a couple of chicken skeletons! Kid you not.
I had to blurt out, WHICH ONE?
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The guys were holding in their laugh or looking away faking a yawn just so they wouldn't be caught laughing out loud and she was still disoriented from that episode so she never really answered. She declined the EMS and we packed up our gear thinking, If this house catches on fire, there is NO WAY she's getting out! So much fire load in there, it would actually be a funeral pyre for her.
I've seen other hoarder living rooms, some very clean and organized but none like this lady. Wonder if they ever found her husband?
well that's as PG rated as I can make it. If you make a contest on how small a space a body can fit in a car wreck I may have a contender story.
Or if you get a "jumper" their ID never really looks like them, hmmmm.