Quote: Since I was the one who was there I looked at the situation and could clearly see it was NOT a medical emergency. She was high and being irrational. Taking her to an emergency room would have created complex LEGAL problems for no good reason.
You are very lucky then...because I'll share a story similar to what happened to your W...the night that my exH and I got married we were out partying (yes partying)...before we went out I had dinner with my boss and his wife. I got very, very and I mean very sick. Heart palpitations, sweating, dizziness...my exH thought perhaps that we had partied too much and was ALSO trying to get me to calm down...we DID end up in the emergency room that night...and believe it or not, I almost died...it was not related to the partying, although his fear was the legal issue too thus why he DIDN'T want to take me either..I had discovered that I actually had a bacterial reaction to shellfish.
If she scared the !@#$ out of you as you said...then what constitutes a medical emergency...to you? As you said your friend weighs 350lbs and this was not normal for her...it was a chance to be there for her, a chance to be a knight in shining armour...well thankfully she is okay.
