RTB

RTB, this is one of our favorite things to see appear on the MDT (cab computer), as it is control telling us to Return To Base, But in the title here I mean it as I am going back to my normal station to work today.
We had a slow start to the day, I was attending to the patients for the first half of the day while my crew mate Tepic drove then at 1pm it was all change.
We had an interesting if not a rather shocking job, when we were sent to a patient with Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease, CJD, we had been out to this patient about 6 months ago, then we just had to assist the patient into bed as they had fallen over. This time however the patient could not communicate, walk of even hold eye contact, it was all very sad, and to top it all the patient was now fitting, so it was a trip up to the hospital with the live in carer as the patients partner was at work.
On both occasions we found the family members (who met us at the hospital) to be extremely unforthcoming with information, last time we were called out we weren't told what was wrong until we pushed for information and this time it was pretty much the same. When the hospital has stopped the patient fitting they were allowed home as they were only receiving palliative care.
Our last patient of the day had fallen in a nursing home and was one of the happiest patients I have been to for a very long time, also one of the loudest and..... one of the rudest! she was 84 years old and was pleased to see us chatting non stop and telling the regular members of care home staff to go away in some very colourful language, she had us all laughing. We left her at the care home to have some supper as she wasn't hurt just needed helping off the floor.