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06 August 2011

Now it's work coming out the Whazoo!

Change in the roster first I'm teamed up again with my partner from the last shift for three weeks.

74M - One of our regular dialysis pts. We're late and he's going to be pissed off. We get called of for a higher priority just short of his address.
25M - Fell off his skateboard and cut his head open. Bleeding had stopped and in looked like a simple scalp wound that he didn't want to got to hospital for. He's decision.
38M - Agrivated a known back issue five weeks ago. Has been doing everything he can with specialist appointments, physio but it's now included a numb foot so off we go with the only analgesia I'll give for the whole shift, not for the lack of trying.
45M - Been bite by a human. Called off for a higher priority.
Unconscious M at the train station. As we arrived on the platform he was pointed out to us getting on the train. Not so unconscious.
81M - Assist off the floor with no injuries. Can stay at home.
84F - Sat down on a wall to rest a little on her daily walk and enjoy the warm weather we're having and somebody called an ambulance for her. She didn't want one! She didn't need one!
6M - At home with an epistaxis. As we pulled up out the front they decided that an ambulance was not needed.
49M - Unconscious in a park. IP woke up with gentle urging from me and we gave him a lift to his hostel.
81M - Hospital to Hospital transfer with foot cellulitis.
84F from a hostel to a hospital with bilateral lower leg cellulitis.
48M - A fellow cyclist who was involved in a multi-bike stack. # clavicle.

My partner was starting to wilt with three hours to go.

See you at the big One.

Taz

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