21 Aug 2010

Overview of the last week or so.......

I had two very similar jobs with two very nice gentlemen.

Green 2 Allocated, blocked catheter.... In the Sergeants Mess at one of the London Barracks.

We enter the Sgt's Mess to find an ex Sergeant Major from the Parachute Regiment, he was 96 years of age & fighting fit. After getting over the fact that my crew-mate hadn't ironed his shirt & that I had scuffed boots we managed to get him on our truck with the help of the the top dog of the Barracks, yes the man himself the Garrison Sergeant Major. While observing his vitals we got chatting about his days in the Service of His & later Her Majesty.. We discovered that he first joined the The Royal Sussex Regiment & later joined Airborne where he eventually ended up being a Para and stormed Pegasus Bridge at D Day.. The man was a tough as old boots and insisted that he walked into A&E as a simple thing like the pain of a blocked catheter was no patch on 26 years in the Army a World War & Korea... Will there really be another generation like them..

Another Job on the same day but later on in the evening

Green 2 Allocated, Blocked Catheter. in Sheltered Housing

We enter the tiny little flat & find another 96YO gentleman with a blocked catheter. He had been seen by the District Nurse earlier today & she had refused to change his catheter. So by this evening he had no choice but to call an ambulance, through careline.. He had tongue cancer so we could only communicate through writing on a piece of card. Guess what we found out: After the war he had a contract re-glazing the Houses of Parliament & the Clock face of Big Ben but during the war he had served with the Royal Sussex Regiment & then the Para's at Pegasus Bridge. Wow what a coincidence two separate jobs in two separate parts of London & we find two Men of the same age with the same problem who had also served with the same regiment... What a strange & wonderful world we live in

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