...Is a man who has been accidentally stabbed in the arm by his wife. She has run from the house, the police are in attendance and there is a distinct smell of 'herbal' cigarettes in the air.

A pleasant patient and an easy last job.

Nighty night.

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A medal for my crewmate please...

We picked up one of our... Erm... 'less fragment' frequent flyers. She stunk, as is usual with her, to high heaven.

I'm driving, my crewmate is in the back of the ambulance with the patient.

The people at the football at West Ham are just emptying out.

It takes us *43* minutes to travel around 500 yards weaving through traffic that often leaves me a credit cards thickness of space on either side.

My crewmate doesn't complain at all and just makes conversation with the patient - something that I wouldn't have enjoyed.

We arrive at a hospital to find another crew in the same situation 40+ minutes in transit, only their patient has drunkenly urinated all over the floor of their ambulance.

This is exactly the sort of job that we don't get the recognition for.

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Lets see if this one disappears into the Aether, the two posts that never arrived will get turned into 'proper' blogposts at a later date...

We got called to a lovely old lady who has had a bit of a 'funny turn'. The non-specific symptoms mean that we will did all the tests that we can (to rule out anything nasty). Then we toke her to hospital because they have much more comprehensive tests.

The patient is very brave as she is agoraphobic and hasn't left her house in five years. I spoke to her daughter on the phone and she seems very nice as well.

Due to being taken out of the house she was very anxious, something that we did the best to minimise.

I hope everything works out alright for her.

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Update: The nurse at Newham hospital was extra-special nice to the patient and gave her a cubicle to herself. Then the patient's daughter arrived and that calmed her down a lot.

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I've just been told to 'F**k off' by one of our regular abusive alcoholics.

She then tried to push me over.

She's 75.

I'm 6'1"

Funny how we can laugh at these sorts of things. She's been left at home, no doubt someone will be called back to her before the night is over.

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A word of warning to everyone in my patch. There appears to be a guard dog on the loose in the Forest Gate to Ilford Area. It has already bitten one man (our patient) on the hand and under his arm. It is described by our patient as 'large, brown' angry and with a lot of teeth'.

We've informed the police and I suspect that they will be calling out the dog support squad to help catch it. The problem is that in this area there are a lot of small children who play in the streets. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that we won't get another call to the area, this time with a savaged child.

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