Two very different shifts

Friday.
Today was my first shift back at my own station since doing jury service, I was working with Denise, and the day started slowly, we got a short spell of cover which was 20 miles from our station then we returned. for what we thought would be our meal break.
We both microwaved our food, (as this is the only method of heating it other than the toaster!) and began to eat, the red phone rang, as we thought to give us a meal break but no it was a job! The master of the hunt!! or what ever he is called had fallen from his 18 HH horse whilst jumping a fence, I would like to point out that this was not a fox hunt, it was a scent hunt, I personally don't like hunting, I can think of better quicker ways to kill a fox if "vermin control" is needed and feel that having it torn apart by a pack of baying hounds in the name of "Sport!!!!!" is a pathetic and wicked thing to do and I am sure many disagree, Oh did I mention that they then wipe the blood from the fox on the face of any new members to the hunt, "oh the sheer joy of having that done what a proud moment" puke hurl chunder!
Still this gentleman was in some considerable pain, and had a hard impact with the ground so we collared and long boarded him before taking him off to the nearest receiving hospital for xrays and tests, he was a very polite and funny man and fortunately he hadn't done himself too much damage. I would like to make a note at this point on the weather, it was a lovely sunny morning, until that is we booked on scene at the job, which was in the middle of a field, then the heavens opened and we all got extremely wet!, Oh yes then just as we got the stretcher onto the back of the ambulance ..... the sun came out again!
That was, to my memory our only job of the day.
Once back home I got changed and waited for the blonde bird to arrive as we together with some other friends were going to hit the town! Watch out town. We all met in the bar and had a few drinks and chatted before I had to go as I was working the next day, en route we ( the blonde bird and I) got a pizza which was really nice, although she picked all the jalapenos off and put on mine haha.
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Saturday.
The night crew told us they hadn't used anything so the vehicle was just as I had left it the day before, but how different the day was going to be!
We got our first job at 0810 to the next village as their ambulance crew had refused to sign on! I would never get away with that, half way there we were stood down as the other crew had eventually signed on.
After this we didn't get back to base until our first meal break which we got at 2.30pm. All the jobs we got were real jobs, the first being to a concussion with vomiting, the slight problem we had was this patient had an odd condition whereby when ever she vomited she stopped breathing and her heart stopped, I thought mine was going to a couple of times that was a scary trip to hospital I can tell you! Next we had a cyclist who was on a club cycle ride going at about 30 mph when he hit the curb and went over the handlebars onto his head up against a tree, splitting his helmet into two pieces (as they are made to do to dissipate the impact) he had lots of back pain and was clammy his obs weren't too good.
Unfortunately (oops did I say unfortunately?) Helemed was dispatched to this job also so having begun to control the job the Hems doctor, paramedic and pilot arrived asked for a hand over and promptly took over! completely, well after certain procedures had been performed I made it clear that one of them would have to travel in the ambulance as I was not going to take responsibility for it, I think he had already decided he would come with us anyway.
Once we had him safely transferred onto a hospital trolley in the resus department, I booked myself in as I sustained a crush injury to my right hand thanks to someone who was on the last job! I am not referring to my crew mate here either.
Straight off to the next job, thanks control I'm fine thanks for taking the time to ask, or even see if my crew mate was single manned. Oh you didn't silly me of course you didn't.
A lady with brittle bones tripped over her dog and thinks she has broken her ankle, it didn't look too deformed or bruised, but judging by the amount of pain she is in and the condition she suffers with we use a vacuum splint and entonox gas and get her downstairs and onto the ambulance. It turned out that she hadn't broken it but soft tissue damage to ankles can be more painful than a break sometimes.
Time for a meal break, and our only time back at base all day! then we are off again, this time to a young man who has fallen from the top to the bottom of his stairs, backing up a car paramedic as this lad needs to be collared and long boarded, then a fall in the street an elderly man, who really did look unwell we bundled him up and into the ambulance and took him up to hospital then we were sent back to base for the end of our shift, we were followed onto the station by the night crew, thanks for coming in in good time guys, have a good night shift.