The Circle of Life

Came off duty last night (Monday) on a bit of a high. Was even still buzzing about it this morning when I woke up. Only 3 jobs for my night but they were an overdose, an MVA involving a car vs truck and trailer unit and then to end the night a birth!

The MVA turned out to not be as serious as it could have potentially been. The driver of the car was drunk! This is what I think could very well have saved his life! He had pulled out of a rural intersection ignoring the Give Way sign. The truck and trailer unit were doing 100km per hour! The truck driver took evasive action but still hit the car on the passenger side pushing the vehicle to the side of the road facing the wrong way. The driver of the car only sustained a blood nose from the air bag hitting him in the face! Like I said very lucky. Then driver of the truck was unjured but badly shaken as to be expected! I really do not like treating druck drivers as they are generally full of attitude, as was this driver. They don't seem to have any comprehension of the danger they pose not only to themselves but other drivers etc on our roads. This guy was trying hard to blame the truck driver even though it was clearly driver of the cars fault. Grrr. We transported the guy to Hospital for observation etc. Enroute to Hospital he became quite lippy with me. He even tried it on at the Hospital so we had to get Security involved! Like I said before, these types of patient really annoy the crap out of me. They take up valuable resources that could be needed else where!

After finishing that job we were responded straight away to a birth in progress! This is the sort of job that you can get really excited about but has the potential to go belly up pretty quick if there are complications.

Thankfully on our arrival, which was only a couple of minutes, the baby had been born and was fit, healthy, great pink colour and very very responsive. All things you want to hear and see when you attend such a job! This was the second child for the parents. Baby was a week early which is why his arrival was such a surprise to everyone! Mum had been having contractions for a while, however the delivery was very quick. Her waters broke and she yelled out to her husband. When he walked into their room she was standing up holding the head of the baby between her legs! Baby was delivered safely and when we got there mother and baby were sitting in the hallway. Glad the mess was all in their house and not the back of our ambulance haha! I got to help deliver the placenta. Then we set about prepping to cut the cord. Making sure all the important things were out of the way of the scalpal! Didn't want to circumsise the new born son haha! Dad did the honors with a big cheesy grin on his face.

We loaded mother and baby into our ambulance and transported them to their birthing centre where their midwife was. The midwife was already attending two births in progress at the centre, hence why she wasn't at the house!

Came away from that job feeling such a buzz! It was a real priviledge to be part of something so special.

To start the night off with someone who wanted to end their life by overdose, to an idiot drunk driver with no regard for anyone elses life, to new life beginning! The circle of life as I said!