Six Feet Under had an episode with a death like that. Iirc the woman seemed to have no friends but Ruth the mother insisted on going to her home to pick up personal things to dress her up in.
Call for an ambulance like any normal person. It's not like your SO is going to do anything else unless you happen to be with a medical professional or something.
People seldom "suddenly fall sick in the middle of the night" without their body warning them ahead of time. Even the rare case of food poisoning will start with tummy rumblings indicating something bad's about to happen.
But if it did... Depends. How sick are we talking? If it's dumping your stomach in the toilet sick, then I'd get to the bathroom and hug the throne until it's out of my system. If it's appendicitis or heart attack sick, I'd call an ambulance. My phone is always at hand - I literally have it in my pants pocket at all times because I live alone.
Living alone isn't scary. But living alone and being sick can really suck.
I drove myself to the hospital when I had appendicitis, and I drove myself home after the surgery. I couldn't justify the expense of an ambulance. I considered this normal, but friends were aghast when I told them about it. Heh.
Years ago I had to walk myself to the ER at 3am in the middle of winter because my eyeball started swelling. I literally thought I was going to go blind if I didn't get help immediately, and the ER was the only option. Luckily I lived down the street from a large hospital at the time.
When it feels like a life-or-death situation, people might be surprised at the survival instinct that kicks in.
LOL, I'd like to think I would be tough enough to drive myself to the hospital. But, a) my dumbass would wait and wait and wait, hoping the pain would go away, until it became too late 😫, and b) my Mom was a firefighter and she banged it into my head that it's worse to try to drive, get in an accident, and possibly hurt someone else, than to call for an ambulance. 🚑 Most insurances cover ambulance bills if it's an actual emergency.
I usually just Grubhub or Doordash what I need from Walgreens. If I’m sicker than that, I’ll Uber to an urgent care or emergency room. Both of which are like five minutes away by car
It’s not that scary. You aren’t going to fall so sick that you can’t even lift a finger to order food through apps. If you do, muster all your strength and call 911
Ride that shit out solo. If need be, call Uber to Urgent Care during business hours or die at home because emergency rooms aren’t even a last resort to me.
Too expensive, usually too long of a wait as well. Medical debt is no joke and the costs associated with ambulance rides and/or emergency room visits is not worth it to me.
I say that whole heartedly. I have been in situations where I questioned whether they warranted a visit to emergency services or ride it out and wait for urgent care to be open… I took my chances with waiting. Worked out in the end and if it hadn’t…
It’s not the worst outcome.
Brain stroke, heart attack, choking. When you are alone, your chances are lowered 😖. When I was younger I was afraid of not even having the strength to call my parents for help.l if something like that happened.
With their assent, I text my two children individually every evening, sometimes several sentences of news, etc., mostly just a single meaningless character. This is my "I'm alive" message.
If a day passes textless, they will look into the cause and take the appropriate action.
Call work, tell them I am sick. Eat food from my freezer (I batch cook so it has a weeks supply). If too ill to cook with a microwave I am ill enough I will not be able to stomach food anyway. If I am worse than thatbitnis time to call doctor.
Live less than 5 minutes from the nearest hospital and I'm almost certain my insurance covers ambulance costs. Last insurance didn't, those bastards!
My gf and I are working hard to be close together though
If I can, calling "SOS médecin", a service here in France that send doctors to your home (from 10min to a few hours depending of the gravity and how busy they are), you pay a more than a regular doctor (about 80€ at night, 36 during the day) but get reimboursed.
This is great for when you can't wait for your doctor to be open or can't got out but you're not sick enough to call an ambulance.
Also, I live near my family so they could be there is less than 30min.
About a choke or something I would try to go to the apartment next doors, both of my neighbors are kind and often presents.
Woke up one day with a 105 degree fever. Walked 2 blocks to the clinic. Tested positive for Influenza A. Got transferred to the ER 4 blocks away in an ambulance. Got treatment. Was back home that night.
I also once slipped in the shower and cut my neck open when my chin slammed into the corner of the bathroom counter. There was a ton of blood, but I managed to get dressed and walk to the ER for treatment.
Happened to me. One night at 2 am I woke up and it took me seconds to throw everything out from my stomach because I was food poisoned by the chicken I ate 4 hours prior. It was the worst night of my life. I threw out 4 times in a row on a carpet, then my mouth was so dry that I tried to drink a glass of water only to throw it out with a grand stomach pain. I could call an ambulance but I chose to walk to the hospital which was 25 mins away on foot. It was difficult to be alone at the hospital at that time. I threw out once in the hospital and some stranger handed me over a tissue to clean my mouth. I went everywhere on my own with no one actually supporting or helping me. Eventually I cried on the bed when they gave me a serum, not because of any physical pain I had to bear with, but because I felt lonely.
I live alone with two special needs children. When I get sick I have to push on because I have them to take care of. It really sucks having to try not to get them sick while prepping their food you’re not going to eat, or having to cater to them when you feel like death.
In these situations I wish I lived alone.
Well, I will probably call 911 and tell them that the world as we know, is about to come to an end. That should put them in a hyperactive mode. They will then come to save me after tracing the call asking the reason for the apocalypse that I was talking about, to which I will reply, "Global warming and Global Idiocy"!
I would die. I’m ok with the logic of it.
In the end, it doesn't even matter.
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And wait it out.
Screw the getting sick part, I had a close call with choking to death when I was in my early 20’s. That’s way scarier.
Six Feet Under had an episode with a death like that. Iirc the woman seemed to have no friends but Ruth the mother insisted on going to her home to pick up personal things to dress her up in.
Try to go back to bed. Either I die peacefully or I wake up feeling good
Call for an ambulance like any normal person. It's not like your SO is going to do anything else unless you happen to be with a medical professional or something.
I’m a 71 year old widower with some experience with this kind of situation and found out that a Moon Pie or Milky Way will cure just about everything.
Die.
I don't know about illness, but I do have fear of choking on food when I'm alone.
That's why I learned to perform the Heimlich manoeuvre on myself. And yes, it does work.
idk suffer alone I guess
My pets have been given permission to eat me if I die.
People seldom "suddenly fall sick in the middle of the night" without their body warning them ahead of time. Even the rare case of food poisoning will start with tummy rumblings indicating something bad's about to happen. But if it did... Depends. How sick are we talking? If it's dumping your stomach in the toilet sick, then I'd get to the bathroom and hug the throne until it's out of my system. If it's appendicitis or heart attack sick, I'd call an ambulance. My phone is always at hand - I literally have it in my pants pocket at all times because I live alone. Living alone isn't scary. But living alone and being sick can really suck.
I drove myself to the hospital when I had appendicitis, and I drove myself home after the surgery. I couldn't justify the expense of an ambulance. I considered this normal, but friends were aghast when I told them about it. Heh.
Years ago I had to walk myself to the ER at 3am in the middle of winter because my eyeball started swelling. I literally thought I was going to go blind if I didn't get help immediately, and the ER was the only option. Luckily I lived down the street from a large hospital at the time. When it feels like a life-or-death situation, people might be surprised at the survival instinct that kicks in.
Yeah, our ancient "deal with all the shit, all the time" ancestors are still in us somewhere. :)
LOL, I'd like to think I would be tough enough to drive myself to the hospital. But, a) my dumbass would wait and wait and wait, hoping the pain would go away, until it became too late 😫, and b) my Mom was a firefighter and she banged it into my head that it's worse to try to drive, get in an accident, and possibly hurt someone else, than to call for an ambulance. 🚑 Most insurances cover ambulance bills if it's an actual emergency.
I usually just Grubhub or Doordash what I need from Walgreens. If I’m sicker than that, I’ll Uber to an urgent care or emergency room. Both of which are like five minutes away by car
It’s not that scary. You aren’t going to fall so sick that you can’t even lift a finger to order food through apps. If you do, muster all your strength and call 911
I live too far out for any place to deliver food to me.
Canned and ready to eat food is your best friend
Ride that shit out solo. If need be, call Uber to Urgent Care during business hours or die at home because emergency rooms aren’t even a last resort to me.
I'm curious. Why emergency rooms?
Too expensive, usually too long of a wait as well. Medical debt is no joke and the costs associated with ambulance rides and/or emergency room visits is not worth it to me. I say that whole heartedly. I have been in situations where I questioned whether they warranted a visit to emergency services or ride it out and wait for urgent care to be open… I took my chances with waiting. Worked out in the end and if it hadn’t… It’s not the worst outcome.
Brain stroke, heart attack, choking. When you are alone, your chances are lowered 😖. When I was younger I was afraid of not even having the strength to call my parents for help.l if something like that happened.
Ill either die or call an ambulance
Get up and grab some water + Tylenol.
With their assent, I text my two children individually every evening, sometimes several sentences of news, etc., mostly just a single meaningless character. This is my "I'm alive" message. If a day passes textless, they will look into the cause and take the appropriate action.
This sounds so wholesome ❤️
Hopefully I'll just die alone and be forgotten.
Try get help, otherwise just die. Someone smell my body and police will settle it. People making too big of a deal of dying alone.
Call work, tell them I am sick. Eat food from my freezer (I batch cook so it has a weeks supply). If too ill to cook with a microwave I am ill enough I will not be able to stomach food anyway. If I am worse than thatbitnis time to call doctor.
Live less than 5 minutes from the nearest hospital and I'm almost certain my insurance covers ambulance costs. Last insurance didn't, those bastards! My gf and I are working hard to be close together though
I walk half an hour to the nearest ER
"Help! I'm about to fall down and won't be able to get up!"
Id call my mom and talk to her, its gonna ease somehow :)
Get up and take meds or call 911
My sister-in-law lives 10 minutes away, and I also have neighbors I can rely on.
had covid while living alone. netflix, hot coffee, whiskey and chicken soup sorted everything out in its own.
If I can, calling "SOS médecin", a service here in France that send doctors to your home (from 10min to a few hours depending of the gravity and how busy they are), you pay a more than a regular doctor (about 80€ at night, 36 during the day) but get reimboursed. This is great for when you can't wait for your doctor to be open or can't got out but you're not sick enough to call an ambulance. Also, I live near my family so they could be there is less than 30min. About a choke or something I would try to go to the apartment next doors, both of my neighbors are kind and often presents.
Call a friend
Try to call 911, or my brother or sister-in-law. If that doesn't work... well, guess I'm fucked. 🤷♂️
Woke up one day with a 105 degree fever. Walked 2 blocks to the clinic. Tested positive for Influenza A. Got transferred to the ER 4 blocks away in an ambulance. Got treatment. Was back home that night.
I also once slipped in the shower and cut my neck open when my chin slammed into the corner of the bathroom counter. There was a ton of blood, but I managed to get dressed and walk to the ER for treatment.
I live 2 streets down from the EMS station so they'd get to me quick if needed. If I were too sick to even call an ambulance, I guess I'd just die.
Water, turn on the fan, take some medication, and hope things will be better in the morning.
Craft a med-kit using random stuff in my bathroom and heal myself.
What do you have in there ?
Alcohol and gauze.
What's the difference between of falling sick alone or being with your head of HR wife? What is she gonna do that an ambulance and medical crew can't?
Umm..call the ambulance in time
So your question is what's my plan if I get a brain aneurysm or a catastrophic stroke that prevents me from even making a phone call?
Get some medicine and go back to bed.
Assuming I’m too sick or too out of it to drive myself to get help…whatever happens, happens.
Call 911
Pop some nyquil and try to get over it.
Happened to me. One night at 2 am I woke up and it took me seconds to throw everything out from my stomach because I was food poisoned by the chicken I ate 4 hours prior. It was the worst night of my life. I threw out 4 times in a row on a carpet, then my mouth was so dry that I tried to drink a glass of water only to throw it out with a grand stomach pain. I could call an ambulance but I chose to walk to the hospital which was 25 mins away on foot. It was difficult to be alone at the hospital at that time. I threw out once in the hospital and some stranger handed me over a tissue to clean my mouth. I went everywhere on my own with no one actually supporting or helping me. Eventually I cried on the bed when they gave me a serum, not because of any physical pain I had to bear with, but because I felt lonely.
Your story broke my heart. I'm so sorry hun. (I'm allowed to say hun. I'm a grandma)
Thanks granma <3
I live alone with two special needs children. When I get sick I have to push on because I have them to take care of. It really sucks having to try not to get them sick while prepping their food you’re not going to eat, or having to cater to them when you feel like death. In these situations I wish I lived alone.
Well, I will probably call 911 and tell them that the world as we know, is about to come to an end. That should put them in a hyperactive mode. They will then come to save me after tracing the call asking the reason for the apocalypse that I was talking about, to which I will reply, "Global warming and Global Idiocy"!