Hi everyone,

The last set of nights while providing some mildly interesting work did not provide anything that I wanted to share with you apart maybe from the little Asian girl who had consumed lots of whisky and half a cow, or that's what I estimate from the vomit on the footpath, in the back of the ambulance, and even in the triage area and just before transfer onto the hospital bed!

With reference to a previous entry this vomit did not smell like garlic!

I would also like to note the passing of a fellow blogger.

I have never read her blog and became aware of her death via the media.

Olive Riley passed away last Saturday in a nursing home aged 108 years (three months short of 109). Olive was acknowledged as the worlds oldest blogger and lived in Woy Woy on the Central Coast of NSW here in Australia.

(http://www.worldsoldestblogger.blogspot.com/)


On a Mental Health issue (no not mine!). There were some very significant changes to the Law last year with increases in the powers of Ambulance Officers in search and detaining of patients believed to have mental health issues.

There has been delays in the roll out of these powers, with the necessity of each officer to undertake an additional days training that includes Mechanical Restraint Devices (MRDs) that we in the city trialled two years ago.

Well the pendulum has swung and I got a call from Sector Office about my interest this morning. So ten or so of my fellow officers will do this and get the much needed extra powers to do pretty much what I do now but by a different route.

Now if they would sign off on the analgesia issue,,,,,,,,

But that's for a different post.



Be careful out there and I'll see you at the Big One.

Taz