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Have to agree with you on that.....I see some posts and start a reply then hit delete as I do not want to offend people (very unusual for meNice one @Mel dCP .
Afternoon apart from this thread, which I wonder through, this forum is just getting on my mammary glands at the moment hence not a lot of activity.
I have to say that I’m really only on this thread now, my bra couldn’t take the extra weight, if you get my drift. Like @porl69 I’ve got part way through typing a response, and thought better of it! Also, I’ve been busy doing an actual JOB apart from the FR stuff. Supply teaching is probing to be quite the eye opener, I’ve had to pass two things onto the schools’ safeguarding teams in just four days in a classroom. So I’ve not been lurking on the forum so much. Busy in the shed today, got four bangles, three rings and a repair job to do. Came in for a coffee and scoffed an entire pack of smoked salmonNice one @Mel dCP .
Afternoon apart from this thread, which I wonder through, this forum is just getting on my mammary glands at the moment hence not a lot of activity.
Other than that, yesterday Christmas lunch with work and, according to Etch A Sketch a 2.9 to 15.2 to 2.4 to 12.9 yesterday, makes for an interesting graph if nothing else ~sigh~
Tootle pips what what,
Have to agree with you on that.....I see some posts and start a reply then hit delete as I do not want to offend people (very unusual for me)
@Mel dCP thanks for that, not only fascinating but really informative. I'm with others on this - I think what you're doing is awesome, go that woman!Yeah, it’s pretty full-on stuff! We’re trained and equipped to deal with some serious issues - catastrophic haemorrhaging, cardiac arrest, breathing issues etc. In our kit we have military grade tourniquets, a defibrillator, oxygen, insertable tubes to help unconscious people breathe... we don’t have to work alone if we’d rather go in pairs, but my partner and I are planning to do our solo assessments when we have some follow-up training in January, so that we can go out alone if we want to. Most of the stuff we get called to are “amber” alerts - someone complaining of chest pain for example. They’ve not actually keeled over and are conscious, but there’s a high risk they might. Our patient last night had a history of heart attacks, so we were quite prepared for him to keel over and require the full treatment - but luckily he didn’t and was able to walk to the ambulance. I was so relieved, losing your first patient in the middle of a wake would have been quite a thing!
As for why, I’ve always wanted to be a medic of some sort - I wasn’t able to go to med school as a young’un, so went into biology and biochemistry instead. Then family and stuff loomed, my diabetes was making me very ill, and my dream got put so far on the back burner that it fell down the back of the cooker. But this year, now that all my tech has enabled me to get the T1 sorted, I feel like an actual human again, so I’ve been able to pursue my dream. A spot of thyroxine to up my thyroid has also made a world of difference. Emergency medicine suits my temperament very well - responding to a call and reacting when you get there, diagnosing and putting pieces of the puzzle together, and then fixing the problem as best I can - right up my alley. I’ve only done one real life call, obviously, and it had a positive outcome, but I loved every minute of it. And of course I’ve been given so much by the NHS, it’s saved my ar5e more times than I can count, and I really wanted to give something back, as cheesy as it sounds. The other main reason is very close to my heart - 20 years ago my lovely mum keeled over with a pulmonary embolism, the paramedics took a while to get there, and when they did it was too late. If by getting there ASAP and holding the fort, I can save another family going through the kind of pain we did, I’d be so happy.
@Cumberland ....we have laminate throughout downstairs.... @Clivethedrive did it for me a couple of years ago....hope yours is looking as good as ours...Have you got laminate?
Never had it before always opted for carpets
i wore my libre with a CT scan -- best to check with your team doing the scan --- it is not a universal YES from my reading round the net experienceDoes anybody know if you can leave a libre on while having a CT scan?
Does anybody know if you can leave a libre on while having a CT scan?
At a Libre training course I went to last week- we were told my a representative from Abott that you can’t/shouldn’t wear them for CT scans and airport scanners.
Did the adrenaline surge affect your BSLs?I have to say that I’m really only on this thread now, my bra couldn’t take the extra weight, if you get my drift. Like @porl69 I’ve got part way through typing a response, and thought better of it! Also, I’ve been busy doing an actual JOB apart from the FR stuff. Supply teaching is probing to be quite the eye opener, I’ve had to pass two things onto the schools’ safeguarding teams in just four days in a classroom. So I’ve not been lurking on the forum so much. Busy in the shed today, got four bangles, three rings and a repair job to do. Came in for a coffee and scoffed an entire pack of smoked salmonSugars stable in the 5-6s today, which is nice. Got a heck of an adrenaline spike last night when the doozit alerted me to our call...
And thank you for all your lovely comments and support, it really means a lot. Going out to play again next Thursday, beforehand if I can find someone to buddy up with. All depends on the supply situation, some days I get a school booking the night before, sometimes it’s 0720...
And back to the grindstone...
Best of luck with the child-proofing! Are you on a pump now ?Good morning everyone have a good weekend got grandsons later im just child proofing house
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