9 below!!!

Last night was my second night and the last shift of this tour.
We had several severe weather warnings come over the MDT (cab comp.) due to freezing flooded roads and burst water mains.
Its strange how our jobs all seem to have a theme sometimes. Last night was no exception, other than one job everything else started with a fall.
One lady we went to was 92, she had been sick gone to get another cover as she was cold in bed too, and then fell on the bed and couldn't do anything. Fortunately for her she was wearing a community alarm button pendant, and was able to call for help. When we arrived she said she was feeling sick again, we tried to sit her up as obviously laying on her back and vomiting isn't a sensible idea. Try as we might she could not manage it so we ended up sitting her on the edge of the bed, even this she needed a considerable amount of assistance with. All her obs were fine so in theory we could leave her at home, which is what she wanted us to do............. When she said she wanted to stay at home I looked at Tepic, my crew mate, and shook my head. We couldn't leave her at home laying in bed in case she vomited again, (she had two episodes while we were doing our obs) we explained this to her and she understood and agreed to go into hospital.
This is when the fun started, she wasn't a slight built lady and we had four storeys to get her down! Oh yeah and there was no lift!! Lets just say I managed to pull two muscles in my left arm. I was waiting for the hospital staff to ask why I had brought her in with just minor vomiting, but when I gave my hand over they all agreed that it was the best thing to do.
We were exceptionally busy up until about 2.30am then on returning to base for a meal break we were able to watch the highlights of both the wild card NFL games and as I had missed them both it was a result!
Every patient we went to had to have an extra blanket round them it was so cold, that is the worst bit about taking elderly patients into hospital in the middle of the night, out of their warn bed out into the cold, and at its worse last night it was -9!