Not a question. I am interested in your thoughts and feelings about what a friend of mine told me to do last week.

He was visiting here the day before Thanksgiving, and had..."an episode" of some kind. He passed out after I got him onto my office chair, I rolled him (on the chair) over to the bed, and I had to lift him onto the bed. I hurt my back pretty badly. He lost control of himself, and had no memory at all of my moving him.

I thought about calling 911, but I didn't because I knew my friend would be really angry.

He assured me later that he would have been very angry if I had called 911, and that he never would have forgiven me. He said if it ever happens again, he is a DNR but he wears no bracelet advising EMTs that he is a DNR.

I have begun to worry about my legal liability. Another friend told me that it may have been a TIA or small stroke.

If my friend had died, I believe I might have been legally liable for not dialing 911 but I don't know for sure. And I am not authorized to convey any sort of DNR information to the EMTs if such a thing should happen again.

I am interested in hearing your thoughts.