I did a similar email to all my many friends asking them for seven random things after reading your blog. I can't believe the things I found out about people I have known for years. A lot of very interesting emails came back.

And interestingly I had never heard the word monomaniacal, but I think it describes me too. Another education!

And as for you living forever, we would like you to live forever too please. Just in case the wish doesn't come true have you ever thought of writing your own obituary and giving it to someone else to place on your blog sometime in hopefully 100 years time?

Did you even reach a hundred? I thought you got to 75 and kinda stalled lol. interesting 7, living forever sounds cool, but the most likely outcome of that scenario is you continuing to be put on RRU/FRU in your 90s. Still, should keep the blog going!

Good luck with the hundred, take care and continue writing!

On No.2, you sound like perfect boyfriend material to me!

I agree you do a fantastic job and have the abilitly to make everything you write seem beautifull. You seem to have a great sense of humor and to still be a paramedic after treating so many ungreatfull drunks shows u have perseverance. I don't know about anyone eles but they are all wonderfull qualities to me!!!

Tom
I have something i wanted your insight on, totally off topic for your post
First of all just a little background, I trained Merseyside Regional first aid certified 1999-2002, and recently completed my St Johns to be first responder in work (dealt mainly with work related injuries)

Now tonight i actually had to do this for a member of the public (its 18.05 at night train due with 5 mins, takes me nearly 2 hours to get home, is an hour between trains)

Now a gentleman is standing next to me doing crosswords in his paper when he suddenly puts his paper up and back off panic stricken as if trying to fend off a horde of wasps, everyone looks to see what is happening, he keeps going backwards till he hits the stairs and collapse, he then goes into a 'fit' (no flailing limbs, just vigorous tremors) "oh hell" is my first thought, i rush forward and grab his head to stop him hitting the floor, a fellow passenger comes over and i ask him to help me move him flat down onto the floor, i ask another passenger to call an ambulance and tell control that we have a fitting male, (i have to say they are right about those 8 minutes being the longest of your life!!)

I hold the guys had and let him ride out the fit, another passenger tries to hold his legs but i tell him to stop and just let the fit ride out, once the fit has subsided i then ask another passenger to help roll him onto his side (had bitten his mouth lot of blood stained saliva, don't want him to choke) so rather than put him into the recovery position (in case he fits again) i merely roll him onto his side and place my hand under hit head to support it

He then seems to come alive but simply grabs my hand and holds it to his ace, pulls his coat hood over his face and seems to fall asleep, i check his breathing, can see him breathing, then the snoring starts (not my idea of a first date but what the hell!!)

so in total he has fitted for 2 mins and lies asleep on the floor for 2 mins more, then he suddenly comes awake, jumps up and backs away from me as if i am a Thai ladyboy proposing him a naughty night!

He then becomes quite combative, kicking things in a rage, i tell the passengers to move away and give him room (thankfully the station master turns up) now we finally manage to coax the guy away from the edge of the platform, he seem aggressive then confused, he doesn't know where he is, his name or anything,

Now this is what i want to know..
The train pulls up, i have told the 2 guards on the platform what has happened, they are keeping the lad sat down (between his jumping up and trying to run off)
i jump on the train and come home...now i am doubting my call, should i have stayed until the medics arrived and given first hand info or would the second hand info from someone who wasn't there help?

Sounds like a completely 'normal' seizure, you did everything right and to be honest from hearing 'fit' any ambulance person worth their salt will know exactly what had happened.

Sounds to me like you did everything right.

1,2 and 3 - Totally agree with you there!
6 - I'd let you shave your hair, but you might not appreciate my cooking...

A mummy's boy with no sex drive . . . well, who'd have guessed it?

Probably someone who recognised themselves in it?

I'm close to my mum, and am hell to live with, so I knew Reynolds had to have some similar sound qualities!

I also have a near zero libido and a lifelong preference for solitude. But that doesn't stop people from constantly speculating that I MUST be either a pedophile who hangs around children's playgrounds or else someone who leads a wildy promiscuous secret life indulging in deviant acts.

Thanks for making me feel less alone, even though I prefer being alone.

Let's hear it for those of us who love living alone! This article summed it up for me: -

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200303/rauch

It's time to value us as well as the party animals!

Thank you! Now I recognise myself. I lived with an extreme extrovert in my first year at uni and it was hell. Suddenly I understand why.

Introverts of the world - isolate.

Glad you liked it! I keep a copy with me at work for those awful moments when someone mentions a team building night out - which is a contradiction in terms to me.

Re n° 3 - words for thought !

"You don't stop playing because you grow old,
You grow old because you stop playing"

I heard that once and have never forgoten it.
xx

It's the advertising strapline for firebox.com.

Looks like it worked, then.

Oh ! Thanks ...
Well I have no idea what firebox is ...!!! ;o)
But it's a great mantra anyway !

1. I don't suffer fools gladly
2. I'm getting impatient to read your next book!
3. I'm like a mother hen to my kids and grandkids (poor things)
4. I'm my middle daughter's carer and I also look after her 3 offspring for my sins
5. We've just adopted a 10 week old cocker spaniel to add to the workload.
6. I'd rather listen to music than watch TV
7. I was a GPs receptionist for 10 years and only left when 1 of the GPs strode over me whilst I was carrying our CPR on a collegue (unsuccessfully) because he had a patient waiting!!

Ohmigod !!
Surely, surely, SURELY that's reportable ....? No?

That comment was in response to your n° 7, not n° 6 ... sorry !!

Re number 2, I have a high sex drive but don't like most people, and usually hate living with them. Believe me, you got the better deal!!

no 4. sounds familiar down this end too...

Very interesting seven random things. By the way I do apologize for messing up all the comments on the previous post. Italics are a bugger to read after a while :/

Keep up the brill writing,

Sarah x

Why oh why do so many want a reflection of them selves , of wot they see in the [distorted ] mirror;
Every human is unique , and we keep on trying to make silk purses out of sow's ears.

Marriage is a myth along with other expected standards.

I just be lucky that I found a soul mate, so lucky.

Not all Men be stags or stallions, some be like the swan that appears to mate for life. Not all females are Mothers. nor should they be.
approx 80,000 gene groups that create our wonderful diversity.
Aesop said it well, when he came up 600 fables.
The one I like be the frog and the Scorpion.
then there is the dog in the manger.
Some Humans be Hyenas, jackals, and cuddly bambis along with all the other variations.
Guggenheim press allowed people to realize that many have differing thoughts that do not agree with the standard mantra.
Now we have the Internet for people to find like minded people.
Unfortunately so many think as Frank S who sang " do it my way."
We have five external senses that must be pleased, because the bio feed back sayso,
The only think I ask for, do not hurt others while you enjoy your grey matter.
More than three score plus years ago I realised that I ain't going to please every one so I do my thing hoping that wot I does, will not hurt any one, but I will use my Australian Queensbury rules if any one forces me to do it their way.

You're not wrong there mate! :o)