Ambulance

[NotMyCat]

New series starts tonight I follow it as it's my old colleagues and job!

It's on!

I'm a bit behind. Just seen the neighbour refuse to do Cpr...

It honestly baffles me how many people wait hours for an ambulance. If you can wait hours for an ambulance its obviously not that much of an emergency and you could have taken a taxi or got a lift to hospital. I know people will say not everyone can afford a taxi but I have never known any taxi driver refuse to take an obviously injured/ill person to hospital.

Bit behind...
What did the COPD patient say when the paramedic asked if he was into football?

He said no it was his pet hate

@FatPatsCat he just said it was his pet hate, but he used to be into trampolining.

Ahh thanks both!

An old lady in our village slipped over and had a swollen arm and leg. She waited thirteen hours for an ambulance. I had lunch with a friend today who sat and waited with the lady.. They took her away and three days later discharged her home against advice and two days later when the carers were there she slipped off the sofa and broke her hip and had to go back to hospital again!

Oh gosh that baby not breathing... 😔 😔 😔
Not quite the same but ds2 started fitting at 2 weeks.. GP arrived and told us not to wait for an ambulance. DH drove us to hospital I grabbed DS and ran in screaming for help.. A doctor took DS and ran with me following.. He was in hospital for four days... Really scary...

The pregnant lady with covid, she was worried about baby’s heartbeat.. it looked like the nurse at the hospital just used on board equipment to check the baby’s heartbeat… if so why isn’t it enough for the paramedics to do this and save all the driving and waiting time?

@Hellocatshome

It honestly baffles me how many people wait hours for an ambulance. If you can wait hours for an ambulance its obviously not that much of an emergency and you could have taken a taxi or got a lift to hospital. I know people will say not everyone can afford a taxi but I have never known any taxi driver refuse to take an obviously injured/ill person to hospital.

I've wondered this too. You'd just get yourself there under your own steam.

Same. Just get in a bloody taxi!!!

I heard the bit where they said the 37 year old was on a ventilator. Did they say if he survived or not? 😕 I know they don’t always say for every case but wondered if I’d missed it

No they never said unfortunately.

I can foresee myself being one of these in the future that waits hours (but I am having counselling so hope not). I have ASD and I find social interaction hard, particularly if there is no structure to the conversation. When I hurt my ankle I know I needed to go to hospital. (Dislocated so definitely couldn’t walk on it, which is very painful but definitely not a priority compared to heart attack/stroke/not breathing.) I called an ambulance because I didn’t feel able to speak to anyone. It was going to be about 5 hours. I did call my parents because I just haven’t managed to make connections to the people I live near to or friends to ask for help and they managed to get me to hospital with help from a neighbour they talked to. (The ambulance call easier as it is very structured.)

I’m so pleased for people diagnosed young as they learn scripts to use and social skills training but I was diagnosed as an adult.

What happened to the man who fell?

Think he was ok.

So lovely of the dispatchers to collect all those clothes.

Very thought-provoking last night, and so sad at the end when we were told the troubled man died afterwards.

@Clawdy I missed the end, which man died?

The one who's hurt his foot at the station.

Yes, the one who sat very quietly in the ambulance and talked about his troubled life, he was only early forties. So sad.

Ah thats so sad

@clunt it was a midwife using a sonicaid. Ambulance crew don't carry them and also aren't trained in interpreting the heartbeat (rate/variability etc). Did seem odd that they took her to the hospital then just took her back home, I thought they were going to admit her to a medical ward. If there hadn't been a heartbeat then obs she would have needed to go to labour ward.

@FakeTanandProsecco I was surprised she went home. She seemed quite unwell.