Blood, Sweat & Tea, page 39 by Tom Reynolds
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n't actually a boat, the reply was, 'Yes, do you have your water wings?'. So we ended up going a couple of miles out of our way to cross the river.
The call was a faint, probably from the heat that is roasting London at the moment - at least the women are wearing revealing clothes, which makes our job of cruising through the street a bit more enjoyable.
Picked up two psychiatric drug-using patients in a row who were drunk and lying in the road perhaps 500yards away from each other. Some children were poking one with a stick...
Then there was the 51-year-old 4-foot-4 Asian grandmother who, upon seeing her husband's car being stolen jumped on the back and hung onto the rear windscreen wiper. She was flung off and, thankfully, not seriously hurt - mainly bruising and gravel rash. Unfortunately, the car that was stolen also contained her house keys and bank books. The A&E was so busy they had to put her out in the waiting room - something that annoyed me no end, especially as the nurse that put her out there had annoyed me earlier in the day by suggesting that I didn't know what the symptoms of bulimia were.
Now to eat/sleep... then lather/rinse/repeat tomorrow.
Sunday
Sunday alone in my flat, no work, no stress, some decent stuff on telly =Good.
No chocolate in the fridge, uniform to be ironed, work tomorrow =Bad.
Phone call from Occupational health telling me my blood values are back to normal =Excellent (Only HIV/HEP test to go now).
Eight... Nine Down
Our complex is EIGHT ambulances short today, so it comes as no surprise that we are running around like the proverbial blue-arsed fly. Control keeps broadcasting jobs for which they have no ambulances, this means that a lot of crews are more unhappy than usual, as Control hassles us about 'greening up' quicker. It doesn't bother me, if I'm busy doing jobs it makes the shift go quicker.
As I'm typing this an ambulance has had a blow-out on the fast lane of the A102 - a very busy road. Th