New Year’s Resolution
… I will update my blog more often!
Sorry. I’ve been so busy! At the moment I am in the middle of a hellish block of shifts: Friday, Saturday and Sunday days, Monday night, then Wednesday day! By the end of it I won’t know if I am coming or going. I am gritting my teeth and thinking of the Christmas Attendance Bonus…
A little piece of Christmas cheer for you. Two days before Christmas, we had a call in to a man in his early fifties who, by the sounds of it, was having a heart attack. Just as the crew arrived, he stopped breathing and went into cardiac arrest.
The crew got out their drugs and zappers and whatever else they use on the euphemistically “suspended”, and thirty minutes later, we got the following blue call (well, not quite, I’ve substituted the medical terms for ones everyone can understand!):
“H701, blue to Chase Farm, with a fifty-something year old male, post cardiac arrest. Now has pulse of Very Good, oxygen saturation of Perfect, blood pressure of Not Bad and a GCS of Fully Conscious and Having A Chat With My Crewmate In The Back”.
Hooray for Christmas miracles!
on December 31st, 2007 at 4:18 pm
Jobs like that make it all worthwhile.
Have a cracking New Year and all the best for 2008.
I,m on Foxtrot-Oscar One tonight so I might be a tad busy.
Kingmagic.
on January 1st, 2008 at 2:26 am
Loving your work, Mark + colleagues.
All the best for 2008,
Mousie xxx
on January 1st, 2008 at 4:32 am
Glad that job ended well
Wishing you a happy new year mate - and looking forward to you keeping your resolution
on January 1st, 2008 at 9:46 am
Yay, on two counts - obviously for the poor guy who is, I’m sure, very glad for quick dispatchers and Nee Naws…
But also for your New Year’s resolution! I only recently found this blog, and I liked it so much that I immediately started reading through the entire archive of posts (yes, I’m that lame). I’d only just finished the other day, and I was hoping you hadn’t fallen off the face of the earth. Thanks for all the hard work, and the rad blog too. Keep it up and so on.
on January 1st, 2008 at 1:28 pm
Happy new year Mark.
I will not work long hours this year, but will spend time with the family.
The Driving Instructor
on January 1st, 2008 at 2:33 pm
hurrah! I like happy stories
Good luck with that shift pattern, it sounds bloody horrible.
Best wishes for 2008
on January 2nd, 2008 at 12:49 am
Great stuff! What a day to save someones life!!
on January 2nd, 2008 at 8:34 am
Good to see you back! I’ll look forward to reading much more in 2008.
on January 2nd, 2008 at 11:50 pm
Ah….. but was it really a succsess? Did the crew make it there in 8 minutes,…….
on January 3rd, 2008 at 1:33 am
Nice ‘translation’ I might have to borrow that idea in the future.
on January 3rd, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Regarding Arabel’s comment earlier - I don’t think you’re lame at all. This is mainly because I also read through the whole blog in about 3 days!
Congratulations Mark - its very interesting to hear about things from your point of view, and how it affects both the casualty, and you.
Well done!
on January 14th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
Hi Mark.
A bit late with this reply but. Been reading for quite a while and think your blog is great. Its great when results of calls are good and people say thanks.
It also feels good when people say thank you. I am a Community First Responder in Barnsley. I was on call xmas day. Got called out to a chest pains (turned out to be Flu). While waiting for the Ambulance I was talking to the patient. When he found out that I was a volunteer and on call xmas day he called me a hero. I didnt feel like one but a little comment like that does make you feel that what you are doing is worthwhile and making a little bit of difference.
Keep up the great work.
on January 16th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
Keep up the blogging, I don’t think I’ve commented much, and if I have, it was probably under a different name
I love reading the stories, so please keep blogging!
Happy 2008! (I can still say that… it’s not THAT far into the new year
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