I opened the door and entered the Tulelake Health Center, at 498 Main Street, Tulelake and walked up to the sliding glass window and waited for Laura to open it so I could explain to her that I need some help. I needed to let her know it was an emergency and that I needed to see someone real quick to see if they could help me. I haven’t been to the clinic to see anyone in over two years too. The last time I was here was with Dr. Bak, the same day I saw Dr. Jones on the tele-med appointment.
Laura called the male nurse Vincent. She got Vincent on the phone somewhere in the back of the clinic. And a few seconds later, and I mean in seconds Vincent had come out of the door at the other end of the waiting room. As I was heading that way I felt like I was going to heave again. So as Vincent motioned for me to head that direction, where he was standing at the entrance door to the patient’s examine rooms.
When I arrived near the door entrance to the clinic patients examining rooms and the entrance door. By then I had reached close enough to Vincent to shake his hand. Instead I rushed pasted him and I saw the little sink in that first examine room. I headed straight for it and bent over and heaved up more mucus or what ever it was that I had drunk, like the chocolate milk from earlier at the FRC where now it was making an about face and out it came into the sink.
Then I turned around just in time to notice nurse Vincent have a strange look of shock on his face. As if he had never experienced exactly what I had done in front of him, going past him at a fast pace and loosing it all in the sink. Vincent I am sure felt he lost control of the situation as if I took over and I was in control instead of him. Vincent was left standing there helpless, instead of me. Then, I explained what my problem was after I was able to wipe away my mouth that was drooling now.
Vincent said the only thing we can do is have me transported by ambulance to Sky Way Hospital ER in Klamath Falls. And that they would have to do a Trachea to try and get the food particle to go down to the stomach at the ER at Sky Lakes in Klamath Falls, OR. I said to Vincent, “Wait a minute, what is that? Then, Vincent explained. Well, they have to put a tube down your throat to help push it down”. And I said…. “Wait aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa minute. I don’t think so.” The nurse Vincent said, “that’s the only way they will be able to help you get it down.” Vincent said, “We have nothing here in the clinic to be able to help you with it. The only option is for you to go to the ER in Klamath Falls, OR.”
Then, I explained there is another problem I told nurse Vincent, while Vincent was telling me I had no other option or I could die if I didn’t go. Well I told Vincent I had no transportation to take me or anyone I know who would be willing to take me there, either.
And if I went by ambulance, I would still need to find someone to pick me up and bring me back home again, not possible. I have no one that would be willing to do that in Tulelake. Oh, I know a lot of people and lot of people know me but not one of them that I can think of that would be willing to offer their time to take me, less well to go up to Klamath Falls and bring me back home again. I don’t think so.
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