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AITA for going against my grandmother's wishes?
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Made some tough decisions today and I would like an opinion from an outside perspective.

My grandma who is in her late 60s ended up busting her lip stepping out of the vehicle. While I was not with her at the time, the next set of events are a bit foggy and the info is from the perspective of those with her at the time of the incident.

-Drinking alcohol excessively to the point where she was stumbling and needed help walking straight

-Face planted into the concrete driveway busting her lip and losing what I would say is at least 1/4 of a cup of blood based on the scene left at the driveway.

-One witness reports she was unconscious for a couple of seconds after impact while another is saying she was still conscious during the whole ordeal.

-After impact to the head was handled by someone there and dragged to her bed (I'm thinking the possibility her head was probably moving around the entire time).

-Arriving 10 minutes after the incident, as carefully as we could get her in the car. At the scene she had a visibly big bump on her cheek, a little bit of dried blood from a swollen busted lip, but she was conscious, responding well and refusing to go to the hospital. Started vomiting. And after careful consideration made the decision to go straight to the hospital.

Here's where the situation gets tricky and might be a bit foreign for those outside of the USA.

She is an immigrant, that has no social security and I assume the refusal to go to the hospital is a lingering fear of going into crippling debt entering an emergency room since she does not have health insurance and afraid of paying out of pocket, but I am not 100% sure.

Now I tried getting help from her two daughters (my mom and my aunt) both in their 40s. One was with her at the time of the incident failed to call 911 at the time of impact or ask for anyone's help due to everyone else being asleep). The other was away from home, unable to leave to check on her due to personal reasons.

That left me, to drive 10minutes away from home to find her in that state and make the decision to take her to the hospital, against her own wishes. It's an overall shitty situation and currently I'm sitting in the waiting room contemplating whether or not I even made the right decision since no one else seemed to want to man ship of the situation. Thankfully two of my best friends alongside her roommate all came to a consensus that it would be best to take her in and not immediately call 911 based on her reactions and consciousness to past events (remembering her birthday, what day is it, etc...).

All in all we were at the hospital within 30minutes and while I regret not immediately calling 911, I am concerned whether or not I was overreacting in this case or an asshole for going against my grandma's wishes to remain home and "just ice it".

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