Friday night is abuse night!

This entire shift consisted of people putting their bodies through the usual Friday night round of abuse.

The first job was a little different, he did not willing abuse his body, although it did go through a little trauma. 18 month old baby fitting. Gone from being freaked by this event to now being the voice of calm. They are very rarely still fitting when we get there and the scene resembles the usual pub on a weekend night.

A young female in hysterics and vomit everywhere!

We did the usual and calmed Mum down and assured her the little chap would be fine. Checked the baby over, who was now coming round from being post ictal, administered 100% oxygen and whisked them both off to A&E for a quick check up.

Then we got called to a pub fight, where a chap had been hit over the head with a car jack. Got there to find a young lad, pissed and a little hyper active????? took his pulse and he was tachycardic at around 135bpm and talking at 100mph!

On enquiring what he had taken, he quietly told us he had been doing a little cocaine, all this while keeping his finger over his mouth as if it were a secret! He had a nasty gash to the back of his head which needed stitches and I finally persuaded him to go to hospital to have it seen to, although his main concern was would he be let out before the pubs closed.

He got a wake up call at hospital, when he kicked off after being told he would have to wait 2hrs to be seen. The nurse proceeded to explain the effects of cocaine on the coronary arteries and the likelihood that he would be about to have a heart attack. This seemed to scare the crap out of him and kept him compliant for the ECG.

Then got called to the 'rough' end of town with the Police for a violent patient who had taken a methadone overdose, along with diazepam. Not sure why we needed the Police as with that many chemicals on board the guy was hardly rousable, yet alone a problem.

And finally the drunk and 'unconscious' 15 year old girl at a party! Do I need to add anything to that one?