Heh. I have had to call an ambulance only once in my life, I had heart arrhythmia (turned out to be a basically non-dangerous, if unpleasant, variety). The two paramedics were both women, one older, one pretty skinny younger one.

Now, I'm afraid that I have gotten pretty fat in my old age. Considering my weight, I highly doubt those two women would have been able to get me on the stretcher and into the ambulance by themselves if I had actually been having something like a serious heart attack and had collapsed on the yard before they got there. As it was I could climb inside the ambulance all by myself so no problem, but the thought certainly occurred to me, wondering what they would have done if I had been unconscious and lying on the ground. Well, maybe they would have been able to do it, but what is pretty certain it would have taken them way more time than the same job would have taken for two men, or even if just one of them had been a man. When I was younger I got some personal experiences trying to get mostly unconscious and almost totally limp drunks inside a car, out of a car, into the house, into a bed or at least a sofa, and yes, even when it's a skinny person when they go totally limp they can be surprisingly hard to lift or drag. When it's somebody with more weight, damn near impossible, and I even used to be pretty strong for a woman (I have always liked lifting weights).

Heh. I have had to call an ambulance only once in my life, I had heart arrhythmia (turned out to be a basically non-dangerous, if unpleasant, variety). The two paramedics were both women, one older, one pretty skinny younger one.

Now, I'm afraid that I have gotten pretty fat in my old age. Considering my weight, I highly doubt those two women would have been able to get me on the stretcher and into the ambulance by themselves if I had actually been having something like a serious heart attack and had collapsed on the yard before they got there. As it was I could climb inside the ambulance all by myself so no problem, but the thought certainly occurred to me, wondering what they would have done if I had been unconscious and lying on the ground. Well, maybe they would have been able to do it, but what is pretty certain it would have taken them way more time than the same job would have taken for two men, or even if just one of them had been a man.