This post will cover a few things, so bear with me please. I went to a patient about 3 months ago now, he had started suffering from a headache while he was at work, put it down to a little bit of stress, came home early and decided to pop to bed for a bit. His wife found him about 4 hours later, having become unable to move or call for help. By the time we got there he was just lying there incapable of doing anything at all for himself and unable to talk. With a little O2 therapy he was able to speak a little, but no-one could really understand what he was saying as his speech was so badly affected. A very swift exit from his flat to the hospital was called for and although it wasn't much of an improvement we were able to understand a few words by the time we got to A&E (thank you was all I could make out, which really choked me, here is someone in such a desperate state but still thanking us) 3 months down the line I got a call to the same address, I recognised it immediately (strangely enough as its hard to remember one job to the next sometimes) and was preparing myself for the worst. He answered the door to us, he still has a bit of trouble walking but he is pretty much back to normal, it was his son visiting him that had fallen and hurt his leg, nothing major but such an amazing job in respect that it allowed us to see the change in a person that was just a shell last time we saw him. So don't give up hope, it happens, to far too few unfortunately, but it does happen. The next is in relation to turning up to jobs that are your colleagues, in my mind this is the worst job I have had to do as its someone that you know very well that needs you more than anything, and it is difficult to remain the "robot" that you are on many jobs. Thankfully I have only had to go to two of these and they have not been too serious, but I hated every second of both of them. I keep everything crossed that I won't have to go to a friend and colleague again. But saying that, if I ever needed an ambulance (fingers crossed I never will) I know who I would want to be attending to me, even if they didn't really want to be there either.....