Round up!

I have just come home from hospital, for the past 4 days I have been getting pains which some of my crew mates thought might be Appendix related. (They have been so bad I have had to stop what I was doing with my patient to wait for the pains to ease.) It's not appendix and the hospital staff don't know what it is, they have given me some tablets and suggest I come back if it gets worse. Fine by me as I hate being in hospital for myself, much better taking others in.
For the last two nights I have been at work, both were so busy, in fact last night we went to almost every hospital in the county! The first night we only saw three patients but were out all night on cover in different areas. Where as yesterday we had loads of patients and fewer cover moves. One of our jobs was a 999 call in progress, to our local area, but the call takers could not understand the man on the other end of the phone, who was clearly in distress! we travelled up and down the 3 mile road they had managed to decipher, and although we had our blues strobing (due to the time, 3 am, we couldn't put the two tones on) nobody made themselves known to us! Jobs like this get to us a bit, clearly someone needed our help but was unable for one reason or another to make their problems, or whereabouts known. We were stood down eventually.
Yesterday I received my replacement phone, as the one I had was freezing up, the battery was over heating and the phone would cut me off mid call! not very helpful, hopefully this one will be better.
I had a letter yesterday which worries me, I "foster" three children, with Plan International, I have been doing this for about 11 years, I have one girl in Bangladesh, a boy in Egypt and a girl in Honduras. The girl in Bangladesh I have been fostering for the longest, (11 years) and so it was a big shock to receive this letter telling me she has disappeared! I know I have never met her, but all those years of letters and gifts, you do get a bond with the children. Plan have said they don't know where she has gone to and have given me a telephone number to call to talk to one of their team.
(If anyone is interested in Plan International by the way I am more than happy to give details.)
Yesterday and the day before I again made the cous cous cakes which have been my obsession lately, Wednesday I made the bread pudding style one and yesterday the lemon one. Unfortunately due to my shifts I haven't been to fat club for a few weeks so I don't know how much weight I have lost. Next week will be a surprise! A positive one hopefully.