Yeah, it sucks. The word last in the title should able to be coloured red.
Anyhow, I land at our base hospital around 0400 and head over to dispatch after refueling the bird. I'm almost to the door when I hear this faint, "Help! Help me!" My first thought was that some construction worker showed up to work early and got hurt in the new wing of the hospital they are building, so I called dispatch on the handheld and informed them about the calls. Security shows up and they start wandering around trying find the source of the yelling.
I end up towards the parking garage because the echoes can be confusing with all the concrete structures around the campus whereupon I see this guy laying facedown on the ground. It seems he missed the ramp as he was driving his motorized scooter out of his minivan and it tipped over with him underneath it. I could see he had both his legs amputated off about three inches below the crotch and the first thought that popped into my head was...
"Lieutenant Dan! You ain't got no legs!"
I just about bust out laughing right there standing over top the guy, but I managed to quickly cover my mouth and hide my grin. Fortunately, he was staring at the oilstain on the floor beneath him, so he never saw me silently convulsing with laughter. I prolly am headed to Hell thinking these kind of things. Working in a hospital sure exposes you to some funny **** on occasion.
Totem
Edited, Aug 17th 2006 at 11:53pm EDT by Totem