The stark difference between jobs, yet we have to treat them the same! read on & tell me how you would cope.
Green 2 Allocation 31 YO Male fallen down 5 steps, injured eye & ankle
We arrive at this lush loft apartment in Londons west end & are greeted by the patient's partner who explains that the patient is in the bedroom. As we move towards the bedroom the patient's partner moves towards the kitchen to make us a cuppa, he must have looked at the state of us & thought I have just the remedy for that mess of a crew lol! We get to the patient and I speak with him while my crewmate does an assessment & a set of Obs.. While speaking with him I find out some history behind his fall, the fall is due to him developing Motor neurone disease last October & this has left one side of his body weak at times so as he approached the steps he lost balance a fell, bang straight onto his head. Due to us not fully understanding the symptoms of Motor neurone disease we queried a possible C-Spine injury due to the hight of the fall & masked by the disease, so promptly immobilised his neck & asked control for Paramedic assistance. While awaiting a Paramedic we get talking to the gentleman and he explains that due to his disease he will only have 2 years to live at the most & his condition will deteriorate as the months go on, I felt instant sadness & compassion for this fella but didn't want to show it to much incase it made him feel awkward. So the Cycle Responder Paramedic arrives and clears a possible spinal injury which means we are able to place him in a chair & take him to hospital.. On the way to hospital I find out that he started off life, like myself from a council estate and had pretty much worked and forced his way into advertising and made a pretty penny with it. The man had his whole life in front of him, and tried to live it to the max with hobbies and work, he even knew his history and gave me a full account of his buildings Victorian heritage. Then as i'm saying goodbye to him & good-luck for the future I sadly remember his plight & that by the time i'm 30 he'll probably be dead & his really nice partner that made us a really nice cuppa will be lonely & upset. What a stinking horrible world this is sometimes...
And then almost as soon as we green up mobile we get another job..........
Green 1 Allocation 48 YO Male sudden onset of blindness & weakness
So we arrive at this brand new block of flats built in North London specially for vulnerable adults, in this case by vulnerable I mean junkies & piss-heads housed in modern 1 bedroom flats with all appliances supplied & rent courtesy of the TAX paying public. And here is me & my girlfriend who is a Nurse struggling to find somewhere to live.... ahhhhhhhhhh.
Anyway as we walk up the 3 flights of stairs past the piss & shit that someone has made on floor 2 and then past the junkies sitting on the 3rd floor we enter this mans apartment, very large & once nice apartment now filled with crap & rubbish & his floor littered with dog ends (cigarette buts). I approach him and at a distance chat with him, I notice 11 bottles of cheap wine (empty) beside his minging smelly bed that he had moved into the living room some weeks earlier. He explains that he has taken his daily does of Methadone & a hit of heroine & to round of his day he's drunk 11 bottles of this cheapo wine. Yet here he is still alert, albeit blind & immobile. He also hasn't eaten in a week. So in my head i'm thinking, what a prick he deserves all he gets & actually needs a kick in the bollocks. But good for him my professional ambulance head is screwed on tight so we treat him, assess him & begrudgingly carry him down stairs & onto our ambulance. On the way to A&E he explains how he has had a hard life growing up on council estates & that his parents split up when he was young bla bla bla bla. I'm sorry but this is excuse after excuse, I grew up in the same conditions if not worse, but I haven't touched anything illegal ever..
So here we are, two jobs completely different. One fella who's life is being taken away from him through no fault of his own & another fella who's life is slowly (to slowly)ebbing away through every fault of his own.. Who's to blame, society, mother nature, parents or are we all individuals responsible for our own doings & future. And sometimes life comes along & steals it from you.. I really don't know.
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