So, I'm sitting there in my office today and I hear something outside. It sounds like a bird squawking. I don't pay it any mind.
But it continues. I try to ignore it, but it keeps coming back. I look outside my window to see if I can see a bird. Something is not right.
I stand up and look out the window again and I see a wheel-barrow with a woman kneeling behind it. At first I don't think anything of it because I saw the landscaping crew working earlier. But then she starts to scream: it's the noise I've been hearing.
I run from my desk, out the back door, to where she is. "Don't touch me!" she says to me immediately. She is leaned over her wheel-barrow which is half off the curb she was trying to get up at the time she pulled her back. "Are you okay?", I ask. "No," she says "I've pulled my back. Can you get my supervisor, John?" She points in the direction where she thinks he is and I take off running.
You must understand I'm not a very physical person but I ran around the corner and did not see a soul. So I ran to the next corner toward the front of the building. No one there, either. I finally spy one of the landscapers and tell him that his co-worker has been hurt. He's off like a shot and I'm running behind him trying to keep up. He checks in with her and then runs to find this "John" person.
I hail one of the women I work with and ask her to bring me water for this woman. She brings a cup of water with a straw and the woman wolfs down the water pretty quickly.
I stay with her, holding the wheel-barrow from toppling over. She's in a precarious position but she says it's okay as long as she doesn't move. They decide to call an ambulance.
Now, I didn't time the arrival of the ambulance but it was fast.
She ended up rising to her feet (with the EMT's help) and getting on a stretcher.
I probably won't end up finding out what becomes of her. I'll keep watching the landscapers.
But it continues. I try to ignore it, but it keeps coming back. I look outside my window to see if I can see a bird. Something is not right.
I stand up and look out the window again and I see a wheel-barrow with a woman kneeling behind it. At first I don't think anything of it because I saw the landscaping crew working earlier. But then she starts to scream: it's the noise I've been hearing.
I run from my desk, out the back door, to where she is. "Don't touch me!" she says to me immediately. She is leaned over her wheel-barrow which is half off the curb she was trying to get up at the time she pulled her back. "Are you okay?", I ask. "No," she says "I've pulled my back. Can you get my supervisor, John?" She points in the direction where she thinks he is and I take off running.
You must understand I'm not a very physical person but I ran around the corner and did not see a soul. So I ran to the next corner toward the front of the building. No one there, either. I finally spy one of the landscapers and tell him that his co-worker has been hurt. He's off like a shot and I'm running behind him trying to keep up. He checks in with her and then runs to find this "John" person.
I hail one of the women I work with and ask her to bring me water for this woman. She brings a cup of water with a straw and the woman wolfs down the water pretty quickly.
I stay with her, holding the wheel-barrow from toppling over. She's in a precarious position but she says it's okay as long as she doesn't move. They decide to call an ambulance.
Now, I didn't time the arrival of the ambulance but it was fast.
She ended up rising to her feet (with the EMT's help) and getting on a stretcher.
I probably won't end up finding out what becomes of her. I'll keep watching the landscapers.