Monday, February 4, 2008

3 Friends and a chest pain.

Kiss the kids, shout to the husband, fall over the dog, phone control and find the car keys!!!!!!
Out the door, usually in about 10 seconds flat.........
"chest pains"
Not an address known to me in my responding days but the road is! Its not well lit and has a reputation for being a "not a nice place"! I arrive and am met by a man out of breathe who starts telling me that his girlfriend had and still is having chest pains.
Grabbing my green bag and defib I follow the out of breath man into the house.
I am led through a cigarette stenched, yellowing white walled lounge and into the bedroom.
I find a young 20 something sat on the bed with laboured breathing. After establising she does not have chest or breathing problems normally I immediately pop on a oxygen mask and administer at peak rate. I start to ask questions..... Have you had this happen before? When did the pain start? What were you doing when the pain started? all of which she either ignored or in my view didn't want to answer? She seemed to be feeling better and her male friend returned to the lounge to join 2 other males. She started to talk in a whisper, she said that she was having a cuddle with her friends (oh no - not friend but friends!!) and afterwards she noticed that her heart beating so fast it scared her, then she noticed her breathing was laboured!!!!!! UMMMMMM!!!
My blushes were saved by the crew walking in at that very moment! Thankfully my hand over was professional and i did try and keep a straight professional face until i finally got back into my car and i laughed all the way home!!

I still don't know if the crew really understood my cryptic handover...........
But I think they knew exactly.................

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I wonder what they where doing perhaps she had just won a game of draughts