Second night of the new roster.

And what a busy interesting night it was.
Much more to my liking.

Highlight for the night was our first job.

61F - Medical Centre, chest pain. It's one of our local centres and the Drs do commence treatment before we arrive (I'm sad to say that a few don't), ECG, Aspirin, GTN, Oxygen.
A block and a half transport, MI confirmed, thrombolised, off to the Cath Lab and she crashes at the end of it.
Peritoneal haemorrhage! Rushed to surgery.
How awful. Just popped over to visit her son, felt sick, goes to Dr, bang bang bang in surgery with life threatening condition she knew nothing about. Tread softly and enjoy each day!

68M - Odd behaviour per hostel staff. Had been discharges back to this aged care hostel today after an alteration to his schizophrenia meds but of course it will take a day or two for them to take hold. This was explained and they (staff) were happy.

?30M - Pissed Backpacker, sleeping in someone's enclosed front yard. Nearly made it to his dorm just around the corner. We walked him there.

25F - Drink spiking, well something had been ingested 'cause she was pinging off the walls. Unusual location though, restaurant with a large party of friends, pt occasionally has social drinks so pill popping is not her thing???? They took her home to stay with her for the night.

54F - Psychiatric case, the story kept changing but enough to say pt had run out of meds for the last week, was hearing dead relatives call her to them and was so sick of it that she wanted to throw herself in front of a train. As we were at Central Rail Station we took her away.

18F - Another one who almost made it home. Woke her up and walked with her the extra 100 metres/yards to the front door.

23M - What was needed here was a very large suppository of 'Toughen the Fuck Up' maybe with a repeat dose for the few scratches on his face. What a big girls blouse.

54F - Psych transfer. Yes that's her, the same one. While she has been Dr shopping over the last week with presentations at various hospitals with a similar story, nobody but our guys stopped to look further and actually treat. She was a little ticked off about the fact that I had put a Mental Health Section on her and not told her, she didn't think Ambos could do that. Little did she know.

23F -Your pissed and stoned what do you want?
For your friends to take you home and care for you!
So we let them.

?22M - Want a be, gangster, Wog Boy. Fell over after an argument with G/f and his mum called us because his arm hurt. On arrival he seems to have toughened up and puts a show on for us. Shoulders rolled forward like they do when they trying to look tough, rapper talk, grabbing his crutch (these types must have really small penises to have to check that it's still there so often),
posturing. It would have been funny if he hadn't believed his own hype.
We left him there, not even our worst hospital deserved him. Last seen still feeling for that small willy.

22F - French student, went for an after midnight skinny dip in a pool in a local park with a boy she had met that night. Yes the pool is fenced off and after security arriving and them trying to climb the fence to avoid them she received a large soft tissue laceration on the underside of her upper arm. The pair got away with a warning from the Police and she got a dozen stitches.

To close the night down a 71M with urinary retention.

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

Taz