Woohoo!! I reached burnie safely and immediately indulged with lotsa yummy food!!
Thanks to the good chefs like joanne, emily and wai ming!!
Cha siew, thai style pork mince, homemade tiramisu made me feel so welcomed in this little town already!!
Anyway, back to my main topic.i wan to write ambulance experience down before forgetting it..
Overall, it is super awesome despite all the nasty scenes and 'dodgy' people..
Since i was small, i had always been wondering how does the ambulance inside look like? Full of gas masks? Patient lying on bed with lotsa blood? Haha..so childish right? Blame the exaggerated effect by the media!
Day 1:
Within 5 min after reaching office, we got a few calls already and mostly are chest pain complaints. Everything went well and i got to perform few simple tests like blood sugar, blood pressure and etc.
But, not until afternoon when we had a middle aged man vomit blood for one night already..When i first stepped into the hse, oh my gosh, it really stink!!! The blood had turned to brownish color and splattered over the floor and his bed..His mouth still covered with brownish blood..Trust me, it is really super duper horrible!!
I felt pitiful for him initially but not when knowing all these are due to the fact of drinking 4 boxes od red wines..
Stupid is the only word i could think of at that moment! Everyone has their "down" periods but you dont have to damage ur innocent body which was given by our Father to that extent..
Day 2:
a few chest pain cases, and one lady with anxiety disorder suffered panic attacks during her work in dental centre. Pretty interesting to see how the paramedics console and calm her down..
Day 3:
Got a call in evening which an old man had dislocated hip joint when uncrossing his legs while sitting. It took us 45 min to reach the place called Tinker Box, such a cute name! First time i saw a man in such a great pain and yet done so well in tolerating it..Me, paramedics and family members took one hour to safely transfer him to the ambulance bed with minimal injuries and pains. Paramedics gave him medroxyfluorane and morphine to start with for pain relief..
Teamwork is definitely there when we are transfering him. Really salute my collegues for their professionalism, passion, intelligence and committment!
Unfortunately, he still suffered excruciating pain on the way to RHH and so morphine 50mg( quite high)was given. Unfortunately, when we reached myer furniture, he vomitted due to the nausea effect by morphine and paramedic said that i can open door if i couldn't tahan. surprisingly i dont feel smelly cos at that moment i felt pitiful for the old man as he had done so great in tolerating the pain!
Even though i went home quite late at 8ish, i felt happy and satisfied and i guess tis is the strength paramedics found which keep them continuing in this area.
Day 4:
A 30ish man with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression called up ambulance complaining that he wanted to committ suicide by jumping to the cars in city. He even tried shotting himself by putting gun in his mouth..
And after hearing this, i kept my distance with him and felt so coward on that..The paramedics were so brave to approach him and asked him all sort of questions. But me, being the timid one, standing away from him and thinking whether he will harm us..haiz..lousy me:(
Generally, ambulance experience had been really amazing and challenging..I never regretted for choosing this even though we have to work till late night, no lunch break(arnotts biscuits in hosp saved our stomach!), early wake up, nasty scenes and etc.
The paramedics really earn my respect fro their professionalism.
Thanks to my collegues for giving me chance to fulfill my childhood dream. I enjoyed every bits of it!
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