Girl Stops Her Own Grandmother from Coming to Prom, but Suddenly Gets a Call from the Hospital Story of the Day
Posted on July 18, 2024
This story revolves around a teenage girl named Liza who is very concerned about her peers’ opinions. She decides to prevent her grandmother from attending her prom, fearing it would be embarrassing. However, she soon receives a call from the hospital, which makes her realize how wrong her priorities were
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Liza, a typical teen who cared deeply about fitting in with her peers, unwittingly hurt her grandmother’s feelings by rejecting the lovingly crafted dress she had made for her. Focused on impressing her friends at prom, Liza went as far as preventing her grandmother from attending, believing it would spare her embarrassment. However, as the evening unfolded, Liza began to realize the emptiness of her priorities and the depth of her grandmother’s love and sacrifice.
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin marathon was halted Sunday after several runners and walkers experienced heat-related problems and required medical attention.
Bethel Police Capt. Robert Cedergren is instructed by Matthew Cassavechia, director of Emergency Medical Services at Danbury Hospital, on the application of CAT tourniquets to control bleeding, Thursday, Sept. 30, 2010. Cedergren will instruct area police officers on the technique.
DANBURY — With heart attacks, the rule is simple and straightforward: Get medical help as soon as possible. Call an ambulance. Don’t attempt to get to the hospital on your own.
But in cases of sudden cardiac arrest, when the heart goes into arrhythmias and stops pumping blood to the body, that time element becomes enormously compressed.
But getting defibrillators, and the people who know how to use them into the community, is difficult. The machines are expensive, and the people who are trained to use them must be on the scene.
But Danbury Hospital employees are on the case. The hospital’s Family Campaign — funded by employee donations — has given $210,000 this year toward a campaign that will, among other things, put 70 defibrillators into the community, and train people to use them. The hospital is trying to choose where to place them. Groups can apply to the hospital to receive a defibrillators until Oct. 15.
“We want to put them in the best place,” Cassavechia said. “The best fit is high-use places, like schools, community centers, senior centers.”
The state Department of Public Health has recognized the entire region for its efforts to educate people about how best to respond to a heart attack.
Last month, the state declared the 10 towns of the Housatonic Valley Council of Elected Officials a HEARTSafe region — the first time an entire group of communities has won this recognition.
Dr. Andrew Keller, chairman of cardiology at Danbury Hospital, said the hospital is trying to educate people to call an ambulance if they think they’re having a heart attack.
“If you stop people on the street, everyone agrees: You call an ambulance,” Keller said. “But it turns out that when people are having heart attacks, only 50 percent do that.
The reasons people give for driving themselves to the hospital reflect thrifty thinking and wallets.
“People say they don’t want to bother the EMTs,” Keller said. “They say they’re embarrassed to have an ambulance in their driveway. Worst of all, they worry about the cost.”
Calling 911 would save lives, Keller said. The defibrillators, which can be used on the scene to shock people’s hearts back into action, will do so as well.
“Every link in the chain has to be robust,” Cassavechia said.