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When You Don’t Have an Emergency Contact Number

Who are they supposed to call?

Iva Ursano
3 min readApr 7, 2019
Image by Peter H from Pixabay

If there was one thing my ex was really good at it was dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s. In everything. Work, life, finances, family, you name it, he made sure he had all his shit covered.

Unlike this girl, who generally coasts through life with rose coloured sunglasses on, sprinkling pixie dust and hoping things work out in the end. Ironically enough, they usually do.

Anyway…

One thing he made sure of was that I always had an I.C.E. In Case of Emergency Contact Number.

At the time I wasn’t too concerned. Can’t they (meaning the paramedics if I happen to get in a car accident and die) just check my phone and call some peeps on there to let them know I’m dead?

Apparently that’s not how it works. Very well.

My ICE people.

So I added a couple of names and numbers in my contact list as ICE people. My son being one obviously, and a sister (I have 3). I also had his (my ex’s) name in that list too.

Looks like I’m covered. But then this happened…

So that was quite a few years ago and I’ve probably gone through 5 phones since then. Also in that time my ex’s number was removed from that…

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