today's theme -medical mayhem. Appropriate enough, cuz I've been hella sick this past week [apologies if i I haven't returned notes here or elsewhere. Mostly better now. ]
Passed a sign on my way to work:
"We repair or replace diabetic machines."
Shortly thereafter, got off a full bus to wait for an ambulance with a passenger who'd passed out & hit his noggin earlier on the bus platform. He came back to conciousness after a minute or less and got on the bus with us, but was turning greener by the minute. One fellow passenger called 911, convinced the driver to stop & let the guy out to puke his guts out on the roadside. Seems to me nobody else budged, but maybe I'm mistaken. I can't have been the only person on that bus who saw what he was going through on the curb, and I can't have been the only one who knows what it feels like to be suddenly sick among strangers. Toronto has more of the 'cautious around strangers' vibe going than any place I've been, even more so than places where the citizenry are packing serious heat.
Sad when that caution gets to feeling a little callous.
Passed a sign on my way to work:
"We repair or replace diabetic machines."
Shortly thereafter, got off a full bus to wait for an ambulance with a passenger who'd passed out & hit his noggin earlier on the bus platform. He came back to conciousness after a minute or less and got on the bus with us, but was turning greener by the minute. One fellow passenger called 911, convinced the driver to stop & let the guy out to puke his guts out on the roadside. Seems to me nobody else budged, but maybe I'm mistaken. I can't have been the only person on that bus who saw what he was going through on the curb, and I can't have been the only one who knows what it feels like to be suddenly sick among strangers. Toronto has more of the 'cautious around strangers' vibe going than any place I've been, even more so than places where the citizenry are packing serious heat.
Sad when that caution gets to feeling a little callous.