Shift swap today.

I'm working at my old station so someone can go to a wedding.

86M - 15min of lower left quadrant pain at midnight. Another lot at 6am. Decides to go and see his LMO at 9am. Rings a friend to tell them he'll be out and they convince him to ring us to check him out first. He was going so well with his self care. In the end we decided that him taking himself off to the LMO was a much better use of his time.

73F - Assist to feet after a stumble. Uninjured and entered into our falls research study.

65M - 2/7Hx of headache unrelieved by analgesia, no trauma, no motor/sensory deficit. Transport for more tests.

88F - Vitalcal alarm activation, no voice contact. Cancelled en route by a relative.

75F - Syncope in a bookstore. Uninjured declined transport.

69F - Right back pain. May have been from a fall but hard to gauge as the pt suffered quite severe Parkinson's and Dementia. Transport for X-rays.

48M - Winded himself after a fall at a soccer game. 30min later he asks the St John's volunteers to call us as he is still very distressed and having a hard time breathing. They have been giving him O2 I think there is a decrease in breath sounds on the right as well as less chest inflation. Transport for a chest X-ray.

80M - Severe haematuria, flying in from a country hospital. Probable complication from a TURP he had 2 units if blood before departure, 2 more in flight and looked like shit when he arrived. His BP dropped 10 points during road transport with us and I jumped 2 crews waiting for triage due to his deterioration.

Last pt was the sickest and there was nothing to do but get to hospital quickly.

See you at the big One.

Taz