When my crew mate and I logged onto the ambulance last night we got a message on the in cab computer (MDT) saying, "just for your information its bad out there".
Oh joy!! fifteen minutes later we got our first job, an elderly man whose legs had given out and he couldn't get up again.
From the minute we entered the house he was rude to us and swearing. My crew mate Dave, put his hand up and said "hold on a minute sir, did you ring for us?"
the man nodded, "Do you want our help to get up off the floor?"
again he nodded
"Well I suggest you stop verbally abusing us and let us help you, if you swear at us we can just leave you know"
This is when the wife interjected "We are both over 80 you have to come out if we call you"
"We don't have to stay and be abused however old you are, so I suggest you stop being so rude let us do our job and then we can leave!"
When asked who their doctor was the wife said, well actually we are not happy with our doctor we are going to change to a different one.... well theres a surprise!
We were then sent on to a woman who was vomiting blood (Haematemasis) when we got there she said "well I can't get back from the hospital unless you bring me so I won't go unless you will"
We explained that this wasn't an option and gave her a few suggestions, she went in to hospital.
We also had two patients one male and one female who had the flu virus but told us they certainly couldn't manage to walk down stairs. (even though in both cases they had walked up them and the male had his bathroom downstairs. (two cases of dying swan!! never mind our backs. The male patient was an overtime job which made us an hour late off!! Grr.
All the time these and our other jobs were going on it was snowing, Woohoo!! I love snow and was all excited to see what Mouse would make of it when I let her out this morning....... I live 31 miles from my ambulance station (Through choice) and as I was driving closer to home the snow was less and less when I got home they hadn't had any, how very disappointing, still all the taps had defrosted!
Now I am off to bed, I wonder if tonight will be any better surely it can't be worse!!
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