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June 25 Do you hear the drums?Over two weeks since the last blog I know, but I've been busy tidying up after the topic of my previous blog, packing up to go home, unpacking once home, doing a final couple of duties in Essex before the holiday and now that I'm back, trying to contact my local unit and find a job.
Plus sleep, cartoons (The Pirates of Dark Water), books and computer games. The usual.
No real point to this blog other than to try and force myself into the flow of thing again. Though Doctor Who fans may wonder about the title given the last two episodes (and the soon to come final episode of this series) so to just cover that all I can say is. Remember what the random members of public were doing in last Saturday's espisode? The strange finger drumming? Well some how I've ended up doing it myself as well. No further comment.
Right, time to get a load of e-mails sent off to try and get myself back in the game then I think I'll watch Die Hard.
Nearing the end of this comic story line, as I said it may not all make sense unless you read the rest of their stuff but it'd be worth it.
QOTD:
I'm too busy to die - various June 10 One for the booksLast night was The End (in oh so many ways) at uni. Big end of term event covering 3 squares (pretty much) plus all the venues and bars with extended licences in places. And being on duty it was fun, fun, fun. The short version is that at the beginning of the night I have 6 pairs of gloves already on me, and even whilst treating less than some others, I'm now down to 1 pair.
The End is well know as a big piss up at the end of the exams (followed by the summerball but that's more about pacing yourself) though in the past it hasn't proven too busy in first aid terms, a handful of casualties and around 2 ambulances in the past 3 years. This year was the exception to the rule with 25 PRF's, other lesser treatments, around 5 to hospital by ambulance and another by taxi plus multiple others recommended to go as soon as possible. It was fun.
Started off the night in the venues, all empty at the time whilst ques were already forming at the first aid room, moved back up to the room to assist there but didn't get anything. Was then called over to a collapse. Got there to find the patient out of it but well enough that we didn't need to bother (had Nightline been open I would have dumped him there though). Next casualty was the same guy about 10 minutes later but by the time we crossed the square he'd walked off again followed shortly but someone with a cut in their hand which just got wiped and plastered after checking it.
Then it was shift changing time (it was nicely planned out and the first change just about worked. Unfortunately as they say, no plan survives first contact with the enemy). My shift change took me over to a girl who was throwing up a lot due to drink and waiting an hour for parents to arrive to collect. About 2 minutes before the parents were due to arrive I finally got my first real call and left solo for Top Bar stairway (met others there luckily) for a girl who had thrown up and ended up sprawled in the middle of the stairs. In theory I would have liked to have gotten rid of her quicker given what I saw upon first arrival but I wanted to be certain. As a result of that I was with her for about half an hour and as her responses got less and less (and she tried diving head first into a step) I decided that an amublance would be a good idea and we moved her into the recovery position. There were various things that irritate me both about that casualty and my responses but given the siutation (at the time we were moments away from calling a major incident) I'm happy with how things went and second guessing myself won't help anyone. Did enjoy telling the stewards to close off that entrance to Top Bar though, that was entertaining.
Did one more response to the womens toilet where there was nothing (though it is true that the ladies toilet are much nicer than the mens, didn't see a sofa though) and strapped someones finger up. Not as much as I hoped but it does finally mean that my dry season seems to be ending (just before I leave uni for the summer and duties will probably become less regular).
The start of the night went fairly smoothly, did get a little caught out by a que of injuries waiting for us almost as soon as we arrived but we handled that, problem didn't arrive until about 12.30 when we have everyone out treating across campus, 3 ambulances on approach and no room to treat anyone (which we didn't have in the first place seeing as our first aid room, aka, broom closet, can only hold 2 minor injuries at best). The 11 first aiders we had on duty proved to be exactly what we needed (the 9 we promised and 6 they suggested... I hate you Malc, wouldn't have covered it) however due to having no extra treatment area we did struggle slightly. The fact that the local hospital was about three ambulance teams down as well meant we were really lucky.
Today its been my joy to check the PRFs and get them onto the system as well as prepare a number of accident report forms for the university safety office. Last night has the potential to cause problems for some people, though leaves us in a very good position for a couple of things we want to talk to the SU about soon.
Too tired to go into much more detail right now (and it's taken me a long time to type this due to running around with other issues). If your interested in seeing the night from other prospectives I'd recommend ASP and Thunderdragon once again. There will be more to follow I'm sure but for now the next comic in the story to lighten the mood and a question to ponder. Why do I look like Mark when in greens?
QOTD:
Peter: "Incalcuable value to science, eh Egon?" Egon: "Peter, do you know how to set your proton pack on explosive overload?" Peter: "No." Egon: "I do." June 05 Spiderman 3Got distracted again so didn't do this as quickly as I intended (then again this won't be much of a blog)
When I was a kid I used to always watch the spiderman cartoons. They were great and you could respect both sides of the character (as in both spiderman and Peter Parker). However, this rapidly started to change after the first of the new spiderman movies purely because Toby Magurie has only one facial expression. That one facial expression (which playing Peter Parker, probably pulls faces whilst under the mask) has now continued for all three movies bar 30 seconds in the latest where its the same bemused facial expression but his top teeth are showing. Sorry to those who haven't seem the movies but this is a picture showing basically all Peter Parker does http://www.comicbookmovie.com/images/news/spider-man-3/SpiderMan3_02.jpg
In other news I hate PRFs, though I am enjoying Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 2.
QOTD:
“Whoever is not against us is with us” – Hungry, 1956ish
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