Completely off subjuct but a question for Tom (and any others who may want to answer it). This morning from about 12.30 to 1.40 I was in the bathroom with my mum who was having quite a bad nose bleed that just wasn't stopping, no matter how long she pinched it for. I was there keeping her calm and trying to remember what to do with heavy nose bleeds from my hours of reading first aid books (I find them interesting for some reason). What I could remember was something to do with if its heavy or lasts longer than a certain time she should go to hospital but I couldn't remeber what that time was. Being only 16, I'm not old enough to drive yet so she is the only person who can drive in the house, but she would not have been able to drive the 7 miles or so to the hospital, so if she needed to go to hospital, I would have needed to call an ambulance but I was reluctant to do so. So for about an hour I was sitting next to my mum trying to cheer her up a bit by reading some of the funnier posts from Blood, Sweat and Tea. (As an aside, Tom, if you bring out a 3rd book, are you going to call it something like 'Even More Blood, Even more Sweat, And A Whole Flask of Tea'?) The nose bleed did eventually stop but the question is, Should I have called an ambulance, knowing my luck that just before it arrived the bleed would have stopped and we both would feel embarrased, or did I do the right thing by leaving it and watching her to make sure that she didn't get any worse?