10. The floor was covered in streaks of ground-in feces and urine. It burned the eyes and lungs to go into the apartment.
“We had a lady that called the ambulance 3-5 times a week for a while. She was in her 40s, morbidly obese (>400lbs) and never cleaned anything. She had food delivered once a week which sat in rotting piles all over her tiny apartment, she was too big to pull herself up when she fell, so she’d be home from the ER for a few hours, fall down and be unable to get up. So, she’d just scoot around the floor for a day or so until she decided it was time to go back to the hospital. During her time on the floor she’d just ‘go’ whenever and wherever she had to. The floor was covered in streaks of ground-in feces and urine. It burned the eyes and lungs to go into the apartment. The last time we encountered her, we had to call the Fire Department to come with their air packs because we couldn’t get further than her door without being overcome. She was hauled outside on a tarp, where we had to decontaminate her with a garden hose before she could go in the ambulance. She was involuntarily committed to the state’s care after that. They had to completely gut her apartment.”
11. The house is a hoarder house with rotting food waste, trash, dust, cat urine and feces, and cockroaches everywhere.
“I’m a paramedic/fireman and we have a patient that calls almost weekly for falls. The patient is about 400lbs. The house is a hoarder house with rotting food waste, trash, dust, cat urine and feces, and cockroaches everywhere. The patient’s legs seep slimy fluid and look like they are rotting due to the obesity, heart failure, and diabetes. The patient doesn’t shower due to mobility problems and can’t clean after bowel movements so is covered in fecal matter and just foul body odor. We have to pick the patient up off the disgusting floor, the fluids and shmeg gets on your arms and chest as four big men deadlift the patient off the floor as the roaches crawl all over our feet. The smell as soon as you walk through the door is nauseating, literally makes my eyes water, and I have been in EMS for 10 years. We have filed multiple APS reports, but there is no law against living in filth so nothing can be done. The patient has caused multiple injuries at my department from trying to lift the fat ass off the floor. Very frustrating and repulsive. Worst of all a family member at the house enables the lifestyle by feeding the patient fast food all the time.”
