Yes it’s another Friday night, and another Friday night on control for me.
So lets run a bit of a book on the types of calls I will be receiving tonight. So let me start.
With in a 10 hour shift I think it will go something like this.
5 assault, 10 falls (from either elderly people or drunks), 2 RTCs, 3 chest pains and at least 2 hoax calls
So see what you can come up with, I will keep count during the course of my 10 hours, you can guess and I will update you tomorrow!
My night shift consisted of a serious assault by persons unknown with weapons on a pensioner…a lad who had been glassed in the face by a girl…a MS patient with abdo pains…a 95 year young woman with LVF in a home that did’nt know she was poorly…a young lad who fell off a 15 foot wall onto his heels…a 2 year old male febrile convulsion…other various routine jobs and the obligatory middle aged woman with depression, drunk who wanted to talk to someone at 4 in the morning!
That was me (and my crewmate) on one ambulance with everyone else at our station and all the other city stations doing an average of 9 jobs each.
So all in all it was a fairly quiet night for a change!