Thanks to those of you who contacted me recently to complain (I mean, express concern) about my recent lack of posts. I haven’t gone anywhere, but there are two things that have been keeping me away from the computer. The first is the fact that I’ve just been too damn busy to sit down and write anything. The second is that just lately I’ve hardly done any shifts on call taking. Most nights I’m up on the dispatch desks doing the radio. This is probably more enjoyable for me, but it doesn’t make for such interesting blogging as I only get the stories second hand. Try as I might, though, I can’t quite bring myself to ask for more shifts on call taking simply because it can be so stressful — not because of the harrowing nasties that you hear, I can deal with those, but because of the rude people and the timewasters. Some of the people who only work upstairs might feel antagonistic towards ambulance crews but personally I’d much rather have “are we the nearest?” and “haven’t you got any green trucks?” than “hurry up, never mind the address, just send the ambulance, he’s DYING” and “You won’t send me an ambulance for my blocked nose? You are a ****** ***** ****** and I am going to sue you and murder your family!” Crews are not allowed to say things like this to us, even if we send them four miles for a patient with flu five minutes before their shift is due to end (which, incidentally, is something I try never to do, because if everything goes to plan one day I will be a crew and karma will come back to haunt me).
Anyway, the point of all this was to say that I am going to put in for some overtime for the next couple of months in order to get some good call taking stories for the blog, but in the meantime, I’m going to try to find some slightly different ambulance-related stuff to write about. Is there anything you lot want to hear about?
