Busy Night.

Called on early for an assist load.

Elderly gent with recent hip replacement slipped in the bathroom and looks like he popped it out. It was a tight spot so the crew on scene called for extra hands. It was a dislocation we found out later.

25M - Intentional OD on booze and pills. Very likely normal for him but the Men's Shelter will not accept you with this on board if you the slightest bit drowsy without a clearance letter from a hospital. Anyway we got called off it for!!!!

17F - Near drowning, well immersion really. IP going out on a harbour cruise stepped to the edge of the wharf to vomit and fell in. Police were already there and jumped in after her and dragged her out. Thing is did she hit the pontoon six foot out from the wharf or not and how did she get the lac on her chin????? Mechanism is enough to throw the works at her.
Hospital said she had aspirated some salt water,,, well dah! everyone who swims does a little and as pissed as she was I bet she gasped as she went in. Lungs were clear and equal with me and I was more concerned with her level of intoxication and cervical spine injury. Blood tests later showed a BAL of 0.26,,, five times the legal limit to drive a car.

Payphone job, someone threatening suicide. I'm not being callas but the ambulance was parked 25 metres from the payphone. I was sitting at a street cafe having a coffee in plain view of the payphone. Someone was yanking our chain. Unable to locate.

?50M - called by a Christian Youth group who were running a soup kitchen like van to an IP street dweller who gave us a mouthful and them when we arrived. He could tell me the shop door he was going to sleep in tonight and had no need of me or so I was told.

64M - IP, a bad case of wobbly leg syndrome. A very pleasant gent who was still sleeping it off five hours later in the small hospital in the city.

14M - Abuse Hx, foster homes, temper control issues, ADHD, called to him at the train station.
Had cut his hand on a bottle when in a rage, the choice was Police cells or hospital. He absconded as soon as we arrived. A very sad story.

57M - Asthma, felt an attack coming on and couldn't find his puffer and called us straight away.
Even after two NEBs his peak expiratory flow was only about 360 or 60 below the 75% mark for his age and height. Hospital we go.

60M - PR bleed. And what a good one it was. Some thing's sprung a big leak in his GI it was running out of him.

74M - whilst at the Gym yesterday doing weights he thought he felt a twinge in the lateral aspect of his neck. He calls at 4.00am when he couldn't sleep from the pain. Have you taken anything for the pain? 'No'. Christ it makes you wonder. Simple analgesia supplied and instructions to see his GP tomorrow or today as it was then.

831 jobs/112 shifts = 7.42 average

See you at the big One.

Taz