Real medical need or bid for attention?

I care for my 87 year old mother. I’m in my mid 50’s and we live in a metro area and the hospitals are full of covid patients. They have restricted surgeries to only medically necessary/emergency cases. When the outbreak first started I had a very blunt conversation with my mother about her being hospitalized or medical emergencies. My mom does not have dementia or Alzheimer’s, she has been screened for both. She does get what I call “locked in” when she’s facing any problem. Her solution (sometimes dangerous) that first pops in her head is the only solution. Any conversation about any other solution will be ignored and you either help or she becomes furious and charges full steam ahead, consequences be damned. The most recent example has me baffled and I can not tell if this was a legit medical need or bid for attention.
About two weeks ago she developed a sore that would not stop bleeding. She has to have surgery to fix the problem. A few days ago she called me in a panic and needed to go to the ER. She had started bleeding again and it would not stop. I told her that because I was at work it could take me longer to get there and I asked if she needed to call an ambulance. Her reply “should I just drive myself and you meet me there” I recognized the tone of her being “locked in” So I said “My point is that you might faint before I can get there, don’t drive yourself. I’m on my way” So I get there and knock on the door. No answer, I open the door with my key I hear her scream “I’m in the bathroom”. I walk in and stand in her front room I ask “are you ready”, “I’m dressing I took a shower before you got here”. So I stand there and I wait at least 10 minutes. She comes out. Not pale, looking okay, shaken but not panicked and fully dressed. I ask her “do you have everything you need, ID, house keys, medical directive, etc. in case they admit you?” her reply “Are you ready to take me the ER and anywhere else they might send me”. So we get in the car and start toward the hospital which is about 6 minutes away. Her cell phone rings and it’s a neighbor. She has a tense short convo and hangs up. She then explains that she had defrosted meat that morning to cook for her lunch and she called the neighbor to come get it because “she didn’t want it to rot and she had no idea where we would end up” I just keep driving. After 1.5 hours at the ER they get her bleeding stopped and discharge her and tell her to follow up with the surgeon. She gets in the car and I get a sermon all the way back to her place. She is furious with me, everyone at the hospital, her Doctor and generally everything and everyone. She ends with “Well that was a complete waste of my time, the next time you have to take me to an ER you aren’t taking me to that one”. I get her home and she has been stable since. I have been grinding off and on about this since it happened. I’m confused did she expect to be admitted and wheeled into emergency surgery? Or was this an ill planned bid for attention. Given her behavior I’m uncertain. I would appreciate any input.