Blood Test came back Negative.

Such is life.

Tracy and I are very disappointed.

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

Taz

A very quiet first night with more refused transports than anything and then we missed out of the really big job of the shift that made it into the papers about the Navy diver attacked by a shark in Sydney Harbour.

Second night brought more work two notables being a very disturbed Mental Health patient with extreme paranoia, delusions and mania.

We also had a very lovely elderly lady who took a tumble and did a hell of a job on her humorous. The elbow was pointing towards her ear. I had to force analgesia on her because she didn't want to be a fuss. You've got a luv 'em.

Had the pleasure of another group of attendees for another lecture from the Ambulance about Road Traffic Trauma for the Traffic Offenders Intervention Program again with six or so coming up and thanking me or sharing their experiences.

We have a blood test tomorrow for the IVF????? We'll see what happens there.

And Mum leaves us tomorrow to travel up the coast to visit one of Dad's sisters.

The bush fires are still burning down south in Victoria and the northern state of Queensland is flooded but here in New South Wales we are having very normal weather.

I'll wrap up this post with a picture of a visitor I saw on station last night, a baby possum.

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

Taz

I did get to watch Mum at the Dragon Boat races and she was very pleased to have me there in uniform and my big Ambulance.

That afternoon we were busy as and managed to finish on penalty rates due to having no lunch break.

No interesting work all very run of the mill.

Got a reply from my phone company too, all the contacts and calender info is lost. I have been going around fellow staff and getting numbers but if you don't see me and think that I would like you number drop me a note on taztheambo@gmail.com .

Mums arrived now at our place,
the Dell man didn't come today,
the work roster has me missing out on working Mardi Gras night.

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

Taz

Big Last Day Off.

Well I seem to have my Dell back to how it was and have found a lot of my contacts but sadly are still missing the calender items, looks like their gone for good.

Thank you Dragonfly for your comment but even MACs get glitches so this is just a reminder to me to back up such data.

My Mum rang this morning, as I have posted she is in Sydney this weekend to compete with her Breast Cancer Survivors Dragon Boat crew at Darling Harbour tomorrow.

Part of their trip usually involves doing a show at one of the theatres here and they were going to Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story and had a spare ticket, would I like to go?

Tracy and I have been many times to take in musicals such as Dusty - The Dusty Springfield Story, Priscilla - Queen of the Desert and JOK - The Johnny O'Keefe Story. So I took up the offer and spent the afternoon with Mum singing a whole lot of Buddy Holly songs.

I had a great time and so did she.

Tonight Tracy and I were to attend a friend of hers Sixtieth birthday.

Well it turned into a wedding with her long time (Thirty Seven years) partner which nobody knew about. We were very honoured to have been invited to such a momentous and significant event.

Congrats Sue and Bob.

So with a heavy belly of food and wedding cake I'm off to bed.

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

Taz

Bloody Computer.

The graphics card or driver or something has decided to play up so after attempting to correct the fault myself with the directions on the DELL site and it not getting fixed I gave them a ring.

Four and a half hours combined telephone time (on their toll-free number).
Four different people with accents trying to be Aussie.
I have wiped the system clean, saved as much as I could but lost all my phone contacts and calender from Outlook.

It's still Fu&^%d.

So a real tech is coming over to home Monday or Tuesday.

The problem, it won't play DVD's

Now on the lucky side, I still have the old laptop and although I dumped a lot of the programs outlook is still running all be it with no new contacts since Aug 07.

I'm waiting on a reply to an email to the phone support dudes to see if the phone might have something like a rollback function to retrieve the newer contacts???
With my luck these days off, not a chance.

I worked last night and although the work was poor and I did nap for an hour or so I have been up and either on the phone or trying to fix this shit of a thing since I got home so I'm either going to crash big time later or work through the night heading for forty eight hours!!!!!!!!

That would be impressive for and Ol' Fart like me.


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

Taz

Lucked out on the work on night shift.

The most interesting case for the two nights was one I didn't treat.
A Mental Health Patient.

We were hearing about stigmata, religious delusions, political conspiracy, time travel and many other disturbing things.

Straight to the rubber room with a schedule from me just in case the medico's missed the juicy stuff.

And that was it.

Had a sleep during the day and then did a presentation at a PCYC for the Traffic Offenders Intervention Program. I had five or six of the attendees come up and talk to me about their experiences and what they had gotten from my presentation, really good for the soul.

So what's coming up?
My Mum arrives in two days for the Dragon Boat Racing on Darling Harbour as part of the Chinese New Year festivities.
Mum paddles with a Dragons Abreast team from Tassie. She's a breast cancer survivor.

The racing is on Sunday, my first day shift so I hope to be able to ask comms if I can hangout around there, work allowing.

It's reportedly going to be a stinker of a day with high 30's so an Ambulance down there might prove to be a good thing?????



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

Taz

Despite the heat!

It's been a bit quiet and today followed until the end of the day.

Having calmed and settled a hyperventilater up at Bondi Beach the partner and I are heading back to station to change over to a night crew when an MVA is given to a single responder at an address not that far behind us.

I pick up the mic and ask if we can assist from our current location (he shrugs his shoulders, no knocking off on time today) and around we go back towards Bondi.

Numerous calls are coming in for the job and while not all being the same address exactly their all close and describing the same accident.

A car going down a hill, swerves and clips a tree and launches itself through a steel pole hand rail and over and down a retaining wall (2.2 odd meters high) rolling and landing on the drivers side.

No passenger, driver somehow self extricated, spinal precautions, several minor glass cuts, pop in a line (pleased with that, a portly Asiatic patient not known to have very easy veins to find) a little antiemetic just to be safe and a few really good photo's to show the doctors. They always find it easier with a photo to believe us when we start telling them what, where and how of the car prangs.


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

Taz