A different one most nights or so was said. There was a 3rd party there, probably a sister of the patient who had smartly called 911 when she recognized that “aura” type stare on the patient’s face when he went silent mid-sentence. This young epileptic man fell into a full tonic-clonic seizure. It ended after about 45 seconds. For a worried mother, this was probably an eternity. I’m assuming that it was during this short time that we got the call to respond. Someone had informed this mother that what you do next is stick an object like a pen or… her finger… in the patient’s mouth to take control of his tongue. Well… unfortunately, he went into a second seizure and promptly bit his mother’s finger off, unwillingly of course. Long story short, both parties get appropriately treated and safely transported to the hospital with the finger on ice. Tongs were used to fish the finger out of the patient’s mouth. I will explain later why this is very lucky. “But they will swallow their tongue!” No they won’t.
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