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Ambulance S16E06 FTP
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00:00New Incident, Category 1.
00:03Put you on an RTC, two cars head on.
00:08This lady has been on the car since 5am.
00:11It's a two-year-old who's been stabbed, the other.
00:15Every day across Yorkshire, more than 3,000 people call 999.
00:19He's just not breathing.
00:21He's pregnant.
00:22Right, he's pregnant.
00:24He's trying to borrow petrol load gases.
00:26The ambulance service must decide who gets help.
00:30Andre.
00:31We're going to look after you mate.
00:32We've got you.
00:33Can I get you covered up?
00:35Lovely jubbly.
00:36And who must wait.
00:3834 jobs waiting for an ambulance now in Leeds alone.
00:41As the pressure on the NHS refuses to relent.
00:45We're creating the waiting room for a waiting room.
00:48The paramedics on the ground navigate England's largest county.
00:52Welcome to our office.
00:54Alright, well done.
00:55From the busiest cities.
00:57Chaos tonight.
00:59We'll need to get out of Leeds now.
01:01To the remotest villages.
01:03We're in the forest.
01:04In the middle of nowhere.
01:05Where each call is a crisis.
01:07I've got a five-year-old found wandering in the street.
01:10Naked.
01:11Malnourished.
01:12God, it breaks your heart.
01:13It's awful.
01:14And every decision critical.
01:16Hello!
01:17Where are we going?
01:17You're alright.
01:18Please let the kids out of there.
01:19Where are they going to land in the middle of Bratford?
01:23We go beyond the flashing blue lights.
01:26Whoa!
01:27Whoa, whoa, whoa!
01:27To reveal the human stories behind every siren.
01:31Just keep going.
01:32Absolutely.
01:33Thank you for coming.
01:34You don't have to thank us.
01:36You do.
01:37If you've got manners, you know.
01:39Are we all ready to set sail?
01:41Get a going!
01:42Get a going!
01:43Ha, ha, ha, ha!
01:52Is the patient breathing?
01:55No, no, no, no, no.
01:56He can't stand.
01:57He can't stand.
01:58He's not breathing.
01:59Is that exactly what's happened?
02:00Uh-oh.
02:01He's not breathing.
02:02He was just having breakfast.
02:04Can you get me police?
02:06Child arrest.
02:07OK, we've got the help traveling, OK?
02:09If there's people who need to have been about, send someone to get it now and tell them
02:12when you have it.
02:13Is there anyone now that is able to come get a de-symulator?
02:16No, we don't know.
02:19On the critical care desk, clinicians can listen in to the most serious calls.
02:25Right, listen.
02:26I'm going to tell you to give mouth to mouth, OK?
02:29Critical care paramedic Alastair is immediately dispatched to the patient.
02:33Hiya, Alastair.
02:34Just going on the desk.
02:34Regarding this detail that you're riding on, we've got a child not breathing on C.
02:39Yeah, cheers, Gail.
02:46We need to make sure he's breathing effectively, OK?
02:49So just look at him very closely and each time his chest rises, I need you to stay now.
02:54OK, OK.
02:55Right, sit, start now.
02:58Yeah, Ali, now.
02:59Next one.
03:01Now.
03:02Next one.
03:06Next one.
03:07Next one.
03:13They're in the interview.
03:15They're here.
03:16Are they inside with you?
03:17Yeah, yeah, they're here.
03:19Right, OK, I'll leave you with them.
03:20No.
03:23You all right?
03:25Take a minute, you need a minute.
03:27Just take some time.
03:31All right?
03:37Oh, there we go.
03:38Quick care has just been stood down and so has a team leader.
03:40So it's not a cardiac arrest.
03:43Phew.
03:43Good outcome.
03:491812.
03:50Hiya, Alistair.
03:51Just me on the desk again.
03:52Yeah, I've stood you down off of this detail, please.
03:53Thankfully, that was a good outcome for that child, not a cardiac arrest.
03:57I do believe he's had some kind of febrile convulsion.
04:00The crew have advised you were not required.
04:03If I need you for anything, I'll give you a ring.
04:05Cheers, mate.
04:07Quick care, not required.
04:08Good.
04:09Every parent's worst nightmare.
04:10Absolutely, yeah.
04:11With a sigh of relief.
04:23Dispatcher for you, all that is.
04:25Black coffee.
04:26Thank you very much.
04:28You've set me up for the rest of the day.
04:30You're not going to ask me for another?
04:32Is that right?
04:32I absolutely am.
04:33And Wakefield starts misbehaving.
04:36In control today, married couple Katie and Stav are settling into their shift.
04:42They will be responsible for 60 ambulances across West Yorkshire,
04:46including the city of Wakefield and its satellite town of Castleford.
04:52Also on duty are Castleford crew paramedic Geoff and associate ambulance practitioner Eddie.
05:00Teach me some South African slang then.
05:04How's it, my brother?
05:05How's it, my brother?
05:07How's that sound?
05:08Yeah, so bad.
05:10How's it, my brother?
05:11We're going for a lack of braai.
05:12A lack of braai.
05:13A nice barbecue.
05:15Yeah.
05:15We'll go watch South Africa thump England at the rugby.
05:19No.
05:22England will win.
05:23No, they won't.
05:25Covering Wakefield today, our paramedic Isbah and associate ambulance practitioner Nando.
05:32Do you know, I'll remember that your first cardiac arrest in charge, it was me and you?
05:39Yes.
05:40Yeah.
05:40Yeah, I remember.
05:42Yeah, it was your first arrest.
05:43Yeah, and I ran that.
05:44I ran that cardiac arrest.
05:45Yeah, you ran that car, yeah?
05:47It was a good work on that one.
05:49Yeah, it was.
05:541705, go ahead.
05:581705, hi, it's Katie.
05:59Just give me an update on this job that I've sent you.
06:01It's a cat 2D tail.
06:03We've got a 51-year-old gentleman by the name of Dale.
06:06He's a dialysis patient.
06:08He's currently feeling very drowsy and he's got pain in his chest.
06:13Lovely, Katie.
06:15Thank you very much for the update.
06:29Hello.
06:30Hello, love.
06:34What's your name?
06:35Joe.
06:41My name's Eddie, this is Geoff.
06:43So what's been going on, Dale?
06:44He's been having trouble getting his dialysis.
06:46He was so sick yesterday morning, we couldn't go.
06:49We had a tantal.
06:51He's due dialysis today, but I tried to get him up and...
06:54No chance.
06:56OK.
06:56How many times a week are you supposed to have dialysis?
06:59Four.
07:00Four.
07:01And you've missed most of this week?
07:03He's definitely told me yesterday.
07:04So when did the vomiting start?
07:06Has it just been yesterday and today?
07:08He's sick a lot, to be honest.
07:10Has it been worse than normal?
07:11Yeah, but he's also had an upset tummy as well this time.
07:14Diarrhea as well?
07:15Yeah.
07:16OK.
07:17So the main thing is you haven't really been having dialysis properly
07:20for a couple of days, and you've been vomiting?
07:23Yeah, we have.
07:26OK.
07:28Have you been able to keep anything down?
07:30No.
07:31No?
07:32No.
07:32No radio.
07:33Or very weak.
07:35We'll do you an ECG, OK?
07:39I think we'll just have a look and see if we can get a line in him
07:42and give him a little bit of fluid.
07:44Yeah.
07:45Right, I'm going to go get the chair downstairs and we'll bob you down to the hospital, OK?
07:49Yeah.
07:50Let's see if we can sit you up.
07:52Give you a hand.
07:55Here you go.
07:57Right, try and stay nice and still for me.
08:02I'm just going to do your ECG.
08:08You OK?
08:12Oh, yeah, that's quite bad.
08:14And lay him down.
08:15He's going to have to go to recess, judging by that ECG.
08:20Um, right, let's get a line in him.
08:22Mm-hm.
08:22Get some fluids in.
08:23Someone down to try and onboard, OK?
08:31How come you leave it so long before you ring us out?
08:35We're going to try and go with dialysis.
08:41We're in.
08:43OK.
08:44Give you a little bit of anti-sickness first, OK?
08:47And his temperature's low as well, 35.
08:49Yeah.
08:51We'll just give you a bit of fluid
08:53so your blood pressure's not tanking too much when we sit you up, OK?
08:57Is that all right?
08:59I agree.
09:00So he's quite unwell.
09:01If he left it any longer,
09:03he definitely would have gone into cardiac arrest.
09:10OK.
09:11Let's get you onto the chair, OK?
09:13Oh, it's all right. Lean on me.
09:19Right, sit back.
09:20Let's carry.
09:26Ready?
09:31One, two, three.
09:34Over.
09:37I'm cold.
09:39I know.
09:40Mum!
09:42We're trainers.
09:44We're trainers.
09:45Trainers.
09:47She's got them for you.
09:51Happy, Geoff.
09:52Yeah, let's go.
09:55Have you always lived here in Cass?
09:58No, in Bristol.
10:00Oh, Bristol.
10:03It's not my original home either.
10:05Where are you?
10:07I'm from South Africa.
10:10Dale.
10:12You feeling OK?
10:14You're feeling OK?
10:15Rubbish.
10:16I think you've done the right thing, though.
10:19I think if you left it any longer, I think you could have been in serious trouble.
10:24You go out first.
10:30I think they'll take him in to recess once they see his ECG.
10:34Oh.
10:35Well, we're going to go inside now.
10:37We're warming a tick.
10:39Three, guys.
10:40One, two, three.
10:42Sit up a bit.
10:44Yeah, Tommy went.
10:46Yeah?
10:47They'll sort you out, OK?
10:49Good luck, eh?
10:50Good luck, eh?
10:52You're welcome, buddy.
10:54See you later, Dale.
11:04Very old, little guy.
11:05He was, wasn't he?
11:06Yeah.
11:07Lucky boy, his mum called us today.
11:10Could have been a cardiac arrest.
11:11Mm-hm.
11:1251.
11:16You got it?
11:191705, go ahead.
11:221705, hi.
11:23Katie.
11:24Just wanting to get an update on the patient, please.
11:26How is Dale doing?
11:28Hiya, Katie.
11:29Yeah, Dale's been quite unwell.
11:32He's missed his dialysis for a couple of days,
11:34because he's been vomiting.
11:35He's been quite lethargic.
11:37Mum was really concerned,
11:38so she rang when he became a little bit confused.
11:42Good thing she did, because when we got there,
11:45he was showing signs of high potassium,
11:47so he was at massive risk of going into cardiac arrest.
11:51Um, we've taken him through to recess now.
11:54Um, ICU have come down already,
11:56and are having a look at him,
11:58so ICU might be the best place for him.
12:00Quite close to home for me,
12:01because, well...
12:06My dad passed away from real failure,
12:09so it's quite...
12:11and it's quite close to home to me.
12:13Over.
12:16Yeah, I'm so sorry to hear that.
12:17I can imagine it must really bring it back.
12:21To see the minutes.
12:23Are you OK?
12:26Yeah.
12:26Yeah, it's Eddie.
12:27Geoff's, er...
12:27Yeah, he's all right.
12:28Just, erm...
12:29Needs a minute after that job, really.
12:31You know, just take your time.
12:33Clear.
12:33Whenever you're ready.
12:35We will do.
12:36Thank you, Katie.
12:36Will they speak to you on my claim?
12:40Oh, Kyle.
12:56Catches your heart sometimes on my birthday, you know?
12:58No, yeah.
12:59There's much talking about it.
13:06It's...
13:06I was at 60,
13:07my dad went into renal failure.
13:10Yep.
13:10British National in South Africa.
13:13During COVID as well,
13:14so I couldn't go and see him.
13:16Erm, and he passed away
13:17before I really knew what was happening.
13:21It's a shame you weren't able to fly over.
13:23Yeah, COVID, eh?
13:27Let's go get a cup of tea.
13:29Yeah.
13:30Cool.
13:31Let's do it.
13:39I think as a bloke,
13:40sometimes emotionally,
13:41we don't deal with
13:42what's going on in the background.
13:45You know, the baggage becomes quite heavy,
13:47erm, until you get to the point where
13:49it's overflowing
13:50and your whole world comes crumbling down on you.
13:53I think I have a problem with that.
13:55I don't do good like talking about emotions and that.
13:57I wear the shoe boxes I put the shit in
14:00and put them up on the shelf.
14:04People deal with grief in different ways.
14:09Erm, it's the little things
14:11that can trigger it
14:12and can come out of the blue.
14:15My dad dying has definitely been
14:17life-changing for me.
14:22I was always with you.
14:23I'm proud.
14:25Sure of that.
14:28Thanks, bro.
14:29No worries.
14:30It's wrong going to Costa
14:31and getting a tea, though, isn't it?
14:33Yeah, well...
14:34You live in Yorkshire now, so...
14:37God's come to you.
14:48Yeah.
14:48It is six hours into the shift
14:50and control are now taking a new 999 call
14:53every 18 seconds.
14:56Ambulance service for patient breathing.
14:59Yeah.
15:00It's my mum.
15:01She's got pains in her chest
15:02and down her arm.
15:03So, we are currently very busy.
15:05An ambulance is going to be there
15:06as soon as we can.
15:07We do have to give the maximum time frame
15:09of up to two hours.
15:10Sorry?
15:12With all ambulances across the region
15:14currently assigned to a patient,
15:16every single new call will be put into a queue
15:19to wait until a crew is freed up.
15:22Ambulance service, is the patient breathing?
15:24Hi.
15:25Can I get the ambulance here?
15:27Is the patient breathing?
15:29Yeah.
15:30Yeah.
15:30Shouldn't I wait?
15:32Yeah, she's in some kind of pain,
15:34chest pain here now.
15:35OK, tell me exactly what's happened.
15:37She was out of touch before.
15:39OK.
15:40We are extremely busy in the area
15:42and we are seeing delays
15:43of anywhere up to 40 minutes.
15:45Hi.
15:46Ambulance service, is the patient breathing?
15:49He is breathing, but no laboured.
15:51Erm, he's going into some medical emergency
15:54in his cell.
15:55Do you know how long he's been like this for?
15:58He's been fitting for the last seven minutes about.
16:01He's been fitting?
16:03Yeah.
16:05All right, Modline's not helping you now,
16:07just stay on the line for me.
16:11Do you know when you get knocked out and you go static,
16:14your limbs go atomic?
16:16Yeah.
16:17Yeah, he's armed up like that.
16:19And his fingers are squared.
16:21He's unresponsive.
16:22Did you hear that?
16:23What was that, Tommy?
16:26He's now unresponsive.
16:28Is the ambulance coming?
16:28Yeah, we've got how far can I come in as a cat one?
16:33One, two, three, four, four cardiac arrests in four minutes.
16:37Multiple resources going at least two DCAs on every cardiac arrest.
16:43And then RTCs.
16:46Four RTCs within half an hour.
16:55Alistair can't find a physical cause for the symptoms the patient has presented with,
17:00as his observations are all normal.
17:04We'll slide under.
17:05Nope, sorry.
17:06Watch your feet.
17:06Oops, feet, sorry.
17:07Apologies.
17:09There we go.
17:09Perfect.
17:10Thank you very much.
17:12Have you got any further updates?
17:15Yeah, so this patient seems to be suffering from psychosomatic seizures.
17:19He is aware of our presence.
17:21Observations are all stable.
17:22Intention to travel to BRI just for assessment.
17:27Well, gentlemen, thank you.
17:29Although the patient is medically stable.
17:31Go on, mate.
17:32Relax yourself for us, you're doing well.
17:34Alistair must still escort him on the ambulance to hospital.
17:39I'm coming.
17:42I'm more than happy that this is psychosomatic.
17:44So, almost got to be all right, shall we?
17:49Come on now, I know you're awake.
17:50I don't know what's going on, but we'll be here to look after you.
17:53All right, fella?
17:55Are you allowed to tell me what he's in for today?
17:57So, is it medical off-related or domestic assault, OK?
18:02Come on, open your eyes.
18:05Come on, open your eyes.
18:06Come on, open your eyes.
18:08It's all right.
18:10Alistair will have to wait with the patient
18:12until he is handed over to medical staff.
18:18Ambulance service, is the patient breathing?
18:21Oh!
18:22Have you had to breathe in yet?
18:23Is the patient awake?
18:25Oh!
18:26Yes, he's awake.
18:28Do you want to tell me exactly what's happened?
18:30He just fell off a ladder.
18:31He was breathing the cord and he fell off the ladder.
18:33And how far did he fall?
18:35So, how far was the ladder?
18:37About...
18:38Oh, my God!
18:4060 is empty feet.
18:42He fell ahead first.
18:44When he's fallen off the ladder, what's he hit?
18:47Yeah, he's gone for you, yeah.
18:50OK, I'm organising help for you now.
18:52Stay on the line.
18:53I'm going to tell you exactly what to do now.
18:55The call in progress requires an urgent response,
18:58but every ambulance in the area is busy treating patients
19:01and the only available critical care resource is over 70 miles away.
19:06We've only got one critical care car available now, and that's in Hull.
19:10Oh, dear.
19:12All these resources out on, multiple jobs, you're constantly spinning your decision model,
19:20and it just reminds you how few our specialist resources are to cover the hole of gas.
19:27How's he doing?
19:29He's swimming in bed.
19:30Trying to keep on the palm.
19:32All right, Paul, you got this.
19:34They are coming out as an emergency, so they'll be with you as soon as they can.
19:38After 30 minutes at Bradford Royal Infirmary, Alistair has managed to leave the patient
19:43who was transferred from police custody with doctors.
19:47He is immediately dispatched to the patient who has fallen from a ladder.
19:531812.
19:53Yeah, hi, Alistair.
19:55It's a 45-year-old male who's fallen 16 foot off of a ladder.
19:59He's reporting that he has elbow, knee, head and shoulder injuries.
20:05He can be heard screaming in pain in the background.
20:08No DC-8 on it yet due to how busy it is currently.
20:12Yeah, girl, thank you. I'll give you an update on the guarantee.
20:15Thank you very much.
20:16How are you doing?
20:17Oh!
20:18It's a bit blurry.
20:19It's blurry.
20:20It's just a bit blurry now.
20:21Don't hit him.
20:22Don't hit him.
20:22Don't move.
20:23You have arrived at your destination.
20:26Oh, dear.
20:28Just let me know when they die with him.
20:30Someone's here.
20:32They're with him?
20:34Yeah, they're with him.
20:34That's perfect.
20:35I'll leave you with him.
20:36Quick, Lana.
20:39So, he's on the ladder.
20:40On the gutter.
20:41Ladder's Libran.
20:41He must have.
20:42Here, head on the floor, yeah.
20:43Oh, my gosh!
20:44On the floor.
20:46What's your name, mate?
20:47Paul.
20:47I landed, like, face first and my arms were under ladders.
20:51Okay.
20:52Okay.
20:53Okay, so that's just the front of his there.
20:55Oh, my God.
20:56Does your nose feel tender across here as well?
20:58Yeah.
20:58Cool, right.
20:59Another on your head?
21:00You got any injuries elsewhere at all?
21:02My fingers here, this wrist.
21:04Yeah.
21:04That wrist.
21:05This elbow, my shoulder, my chest, my knees.
21:08All right, pal, no worries.
21:09We're going to look after you.
21:10My head, my nose.
21:11All right, mate, no worries.
21:11Oh, my God.
21:13Pull up in your mouth now and run your tongue round your mouth, run your teeth.
21:16Anything loose at all?
21:17I've got no teeth anyway.
21:19Okay, mate.
21:20Oh!
21:20Okay, any pain in your tummy at all?
21:22Oh, it's just tender.
21:24Tender where?
21:25All over.
21:26All over?
21:26Oh!
21:27All right, mate.
21:28All that hand has gone numb.
21:31Oh!
21:32Oh, my neck, my arm.
21:34Keep your head still for me, mate.
21:36All right?
21:37Don't move your head.
21:38Oh!
21:39You're doing well.
21:42Oh!
21:42Stay still for me.
21:43Stay still.
21:4518-12.
21:46Yeah, 18-12.
21:48Flash message.
21:49Yeah, Cale.
21:50He's got an injury to his head, left shoulder, both left and right wrists, upper right chest,
21:58and potential legs.
21:59Where am I on the list for DCA, please?
22:02Oh!
22:03Oh!
22:03Yeah, that's all received.
22:04You've got a DCA running.
22:05One five minutes.
22:07Oh!
22:07Yeah, that's all received.
22:11Cale has managed to dispatch an ambulance to support Alistair, but it is 15 minutes away.
22:18Paul?
22:18What?
22:19Go get you an ambulance, mate.
22:20It's on its way.
22:20You're not long now.
22:21Yeah?
22:22Oh!
22:23Right.
22:24This arm.
22:25Does it hurt?
22:26Or just your wrist?
22:27Just my wrist and that finger.
22:30Blood pressure's good.
22:31Heart rate's good.
22:32That's a good.
22:33Most of the pain's in my head, my neck down my left side, my shoulder, my back.
22:37Oh!
22:39You've got to move, all right?
22:40I'm going to get some pain relief.
22:41We're going to make sure you keep warm, that's all.
22:44Oh!
22:45Paul, I'm just going to put a cannula into your arm, all right?
22:48Is it not moving?
22:49Oh!
22:50Nice and still.
22:51Oh!
22:52You all right, buddy?
22:53Still with us?
22:54Yeah, I think so.
22:56OK.
22:57I don't feel well.
22:58You're OK, Paul.
22:59Steady.
23:00Roll!
23:00Here we go.
23:01Don't do it.
23:04You're OK, Paul.
23:06Am I dying?
23:08No, you're not dying, Paul.
23:09You're doing OK.
23:10You're doing really well, mate.
23:10I don't feel like I'm dying.
23:11I know you're doing fine.
23:13Promise you.
23:14Please, somebody help me take.
23:20Please, somebody help me take.
23:28We're all good.
23:29We're going to look after you, yeah?
23:31I feel like I'm going to die, and I don't want anything here, right?
23:35So, what are you about me?
23:37You're not going to die, fella.
23:38You're not going to die.
23:47You're not going to die.
23:54How old's your daughter?
23:56Sixteen.
23:57Sixteen.
23:58Good man.
23:59Eighteen months ago, I used to be on Passier drugs.
24:02I used to be a proper smacker.
24:05I was on the streets for about eight months, but now I'm off the drugs.
24:09I'm completely clean.
24:10I'm leaving.
24:10I'll be on hold.
24:12Must have taken some effort to do that.
24:14It's taken a lot of effort, but my daughter's going to school,
24:17and everybody's doing the right things, and I'm trying to do the better of my life.
24:22Oh!
24:25There's so many places on my body that's okay, you know.
24:28Really?
24:28Well, you have come off the top of a ladder, though, haven't you?
24:31Yeah.
24:33You all right, Paul?
24:36I think so, buddy.
24:36We're looking after you.
24:37I think so, buddy.
24:38We're looking after you, mate.
24:39All right?
24:40Okay.
24:41Thank you very much.
24:42You're welcome.
24:44A couple of bumps, mate, as we've come out of this ambulance.
24:47Good man.
24:49Paul will be seen by doctors to assess the severity of his injuries.
24:56I need a holiday.
24:59I just want to go and, like, just, you know, explore the world.
25:04The place I really, really, really would love to go to is about Buckingham.
25:08This is Japan.
25:09I'd like to go to South Africa.
25:11I want to go to Iceland.
25:12I want to go to Norway to watch the Northern Lights.
25:16So you want to go everywhere, basically, isn't it?
25:19Listen to everywhere.
25:20Let's resume to there.
25:22Listen to everywhere.
25:28I just dropped you on this job up at Garforth at the medical centre.
25:31It's an 83-year-old female named Kathleen.
25:34She's got a history of SVT.
25:37Currently got a pulse of 160 and is quite light-headed.
25:40Doctor wants her into alien.
25:41Yeah, no worries.
25:42That's fine.
25:46So it says the patient's in SVT.
25:48Like, it could get really dangerous if they're in this rhythm for more than a couple of hours.
25:54Oh, the entrance is there.
25:56Yes.
25:57Righty.
25:59Go pick up Kathleen.
26:03Hello.
26:04My name's Isba.
26:05This is Nando.
26:06Is it Kathleen?
26:08It's Kathleen.
26:08Hiya, Kathleen.
26:10Is it all right if we do some checks on you, Kathleen?
26:12No.
26:13What's...
26:14I'll go home then.
26:15See you later, then.
26:18How are you feeling, Kathleen, at this moment of time?
26:23I don't know.
26:25Not myself.
26:26Not yourself.
26:26In what way?
26:28Watson.
26:28I think if you were saying something to me, I wouldn't take it her way.
26:32You mean, like, a bit confused?
26:34Yeah.
26:35Yeah.
26:36What's been going on, Kathleen?
26:38My husband.
26:39Ah.
26:40Sorry?
26:40What's she done?
26:42Oh, well, why's she here?
26:43Yeah?
26:44Well, she...
26:45She's...
26:46She was OK, and then all of a sudden, she just says,
26:49I feel like feeling...
26:50No chest pain or chest discomfort.
26:52No.
26:53No.
26:54Just let me get my memory.
26:56Mm.
26:57Has her memory always been like that?
26:59She's got dementia.
27:00Oh, she got dementia?
27:02Oh, OK.
27:02How long has she had dementia for?
27:05Well, she was officially diagnosed 18 months, two years ago.
27:11Oh, is it more short-term memory that's affected than long-term?
27:15No, yeah, long-term memory.
27:17Long-term as well.
27:17Look, when you say to me that you're not feeling you're right,
27:21you're not feeling yourself.
27:23Yeah.
27:23Can you remember things way back when she was a kid?
27:26Yeah.
27:27Nothing...
27:28Yeah.
27:29OK.
27:30I can't remember everything.
27:31You have to write it down.
27:32Yeah.
27:37Your heart's definitely going on some sort of rollercoaster ride here,
27:40Kathleen.
27:41Mm-hm.
27:41Yeah.
27:43My heart keeps flicking through random rhythms.
27:46Erm, sometimes it goes quite fast.
27:49At some points, it goes a little bit irregular.
27:53Yeah, yeah.
27:53Yeah, so we will have to take her down to LGI.
27:56OK.
27:56And get a scene there.
27:58OK.
27:59Yeah, all right.
28:00How are we feeling, lovey?
28:02Falling asleep?
28:04All right.
28:05Yeah.
28:07How long have you guys been together?
28:09Hello.
28:13He is very good to me.
28:15Yeah.
28:16Mm-hm?
28:16He is looking after me.
28:19Yeah.
28:19Properly.
28:20Mm-hm.
28:21How long have we been together?
28:23About 27 years.
28:25Yeah.
28:26It can be hard, though, dementia.
28:29We've been all over the world.
28:33And, er...
28:34She can't remember any places we've been.
28:37Mm.
28:39But she's sad, really.
28:41I know.
28:44Oh, dear.
28:45Yeah.
28:48Gonna have a little trip to hospital just to check what's going on with your heart.
28:53Yep.
28:53All right.
28:54Oh, he's coming with us.
28:57Don't worry.
28:58Yeah.
28:58Take your time.
28:59Take as long as you need.
29:00It's quite high, so be care.
29:02There we go.
29:04Really?
29:05It's not a ball in there, is it?
29:06No, definitely not.
29:09So, you see?
29:10You went out for just a blood test.
29:12And now are you going to go for a ride with me?
29:20I'll go down in my own car.
29:22Yeah, of course, yeah.
29:23We'll be going to LGI, because they're cardiac.
29:25Right.
29:26All right, then.
29:26See you then, Peter.
29:29Peter said he's going to come up to hospital in his car.
29:33Yes.
29:33All right.
29:35And I'm going to get in your tummy again and just put on the sides in here.
29:40All right?
29:40Mm-mm.
29:41I just didn't want to pinch your skin.
29:43No.
29:44And we're up to last.
29:46Tough cookie.
29:48Yeah.
29:49You have to be.
29:50I'll tell you.
29:59You know what I say, what am I doing in here?
30:01Yeah.
30:01Your heart is going a bit doolally, so we're taking you down to Leeds.
30:05Is that light too bright for you?
30:07There you go.
30:07A little bit dimmer.
30:09Is that better?
30:10Fair enough.
30:12Dimmer.
30:13You're not dim.
30:20All our different experiences that we've had, the good and the bad, do shape us into the
30:24people that we are today.
30:27I feel like if I didn't have the experiences that I've been through, I wouldn't be able
30:33to connect with the patient the way that I connect with them now.
30:37Are you allergic to anything?
30:40Men.
30:42But you just said you liked yours.
30:44I do.
30:45It's best.
30:46Yeah?
30:47It's one of the best things we can do is listen.
30:51Paramedics are like therapists.
30:53There's always a way forward.
30:55And there's always somebody to talk to.
30:59We're here now.
31:02Pete shouldn't be far along.
31:04You followed us in.
31:06A few bumps in here, love.
31:18All right.
31:19Just, er...
31:20Ready to go home.
31:21Yeah, it's been intense today.
31:23It's been mad.
31:24Oh, people are starting to walk into the building.
31:26It must mean it's nearly time.
31:30I'm being tired.
31:32It's a patient breathing.
31:33He just rung me there now and he couldn't speak.
31:37He's got COPD.
31:39And what's your relationship to Raymond?
31:42I'm just a friend, darling.
31:44I just give his shit off and throw him.
31:47Geoff and Eddie have just arrived on scene.
31:51I think I might have been here.
31:54Oh, yeah?
31:55Yeah.
31:56Yeah.
31:57Hello.
31:58Ambulance.
31:59My name's Eddie.
32:00This is Geoff.
32:02I think we've been out a few times to you with your breathing,
32:04haven't we?
32:06Has your breathing been worse today than normal?
32:12You've been worse.
32:14Just lift your arm up.
32:16Is his breathing normally like this?
32:18Ah, that's normal, but...
32:20Yeah.
32:21I don't know what to do.
32:23Okay.
32:25He's hardly hearing, so...
32:26Makes me feel.
32:27You have to shout.
32:28Yeah.
32:29Raymond!
32:33When last did you use your neb?
32:35I used it this morning when I was here.
32:37Yeah, yeah.
32:38Oh, okay.
32:39Pam, how long's he had COPD for?
32:42Years as far as I know.
32:44Does he still smoke?
32:45No, actually, he's cut away, way down.
32:48But he's still smoking?
32:49Yeah.
32:50And how bad is his COPD normally?
32:54He's worse than that normally.
32:55So this is quite a good day?
32:57Aye, but earlier he was...
32:59He said, I think I'm digging, I think I'm digging.
33:01Does he panic with his breathing sometimes?
33:05He does.
33:06Which is understandable, isn't it?
33:07Yes.
33:08Because I think I'd panic if I couldn't catch my breath.
33:10Yeah.
33:11Every now and then, I get a flare up to my palm, fighting through my breath.
33:19Yeah.
33:22But then, it just calms down.
33:27Okay.
33:28And I'm right as a bobbin.
33:32Pam, how do you know each other?
33:35Oh, I used to know him from the pub years back.
33:39Are you his missus?
33:41No, I'm not.
33:42I knew his wife.
33:45Oh, you knew his wife.
33:46Yeah.
33:48Would you go to hospital?
33:50No.
33:51No.
33:53Definitely not.
33:55Definitely not.
33:57Frank.
33:59You're breathing.
34:03I don't want to go to hospital.
34:06Well, what are you going to do then?
34:09I want to get home for Emmerdale.
34:11For Emmerdale.
34:13Oh, hi there.
34:14It's Jeff here from Yorkshire Ambulance Service, paramedic.
34:17I just want to have a chat to the GP about his shortness of breath.
34:20Oh, you're beautiful.
34:22Me?
34:23Not as beautiful as you though, Pam.
34:26Em, I was just wondering, he does not want to go to hospital under any circumstances.
34:32I was just wondering if there's any way that we could get him, er, start him on some prednisolone and
34:37some antibiotics.
34:38Thank you very much, doctor.
34:41Okay, have a lovely evening. Bye-bye.
34:43I've spoken to the doctor.
34:46She's prescribed you some antibiotics and some steroids.
34:53Okay.
34:55Is the prescription in?
34:57Asda.
34:58I'm going.
34:59I'm going to get it.
35:00You want to get it, Pam?
35:01Yes.
35:02I'm going now.
35:03Not now.
35:04No.
35:04Mm-mm.
35:06Ray, my darling.
35:07Okay.
35:09Okay.
35:09Yeah, yeah.
35:11Thank you, lads.
35:13Okay.
35:14No worries, Ray.
35:15You're welcome, Ray, okay?
35:22It's like Phoenix nights, Pam.
35:24Riding off into the sunset.
35:28Good luck tonight.
35:29Thank you very much.
35:30Okay.
35:32If your breathing gets worse, push the button.
35:37See you later, Ray.
35:39Take care.
35:41No worries.
35:48Wow.
35:50Wow, that was difficult, wasn't it?
35:52Difficult, yeah.
35:54Good thing he's got Pam, though, eh?
35:56Yeah, it's good for him.
35:58She'll keep him safe.
36:13It's the start of a new shift for the Yorkshire Ambulance Service.
36:17Here we go.
36:1918, 12.
36:20Good morning.
36:22Yeah, good morning, Alistair.
36:23Hope you're okay.
36:24Yeah, I'm all well, mate.
36:25Thank you very much.
36:26Nice and rested.
36:27All keyed on and ready to go.
36:28I'll speak to you soon.
36:29Thanks, Alistair.
36:34In dispatch, Katie and Stab will be looking after crews across West Yorkshire again.
36:39Straight in, straight to work.
36:41Straight in, same story every day.
36:43I know.
36:43I know.
36:44In Castleford, Geoff and Eddie have just signed on for their shift.
36:521705, it's Katie.
36:53It's a Category 2, 39-year-old female by the name of Laura.
36:57So, she's been in a previous car accident and had one side of her body operated on.
37:03Pelvis, hip, knee and lower leg.
37:05And she has now, unfortunately, fallen over, screaming in agony with pain in her hip.
37:10She is outside.
37:11Brilliant, thank you.
37:12We'll give you an update if we need anyone else.
37:15Cheers.
37:16Wow.
37:17She must have been in a bad car crash, huh?
37:20To what?
37:20To her hip and her pelvis.
37:2239-year-olds, yeah.
37:23Must have been a bad one.
37:25I suppose if it's all still healing.
37:27She's got a fractured one again.
37:29Find out when we get there.
37:31This one.
37:32Here we are.
37:39All right.
37:40Do you want to tell us a little bit of what's happened?
37:42I've just literally just stepped and then I've just fallen backwards on my bum.
37:46I've not actually fallen down the steps.
37:48But obviously, I've hurt my hip and I'm just panicking now because of everything that I've been through.
37:55I feel ya.
37:56I'm stressing.
37:57Right, so you've fallen backwards onto your bum and then have you guys picked her up and put her under
38:01the shower?
38:02Yeah, I needed to.
38:03I was like, I needed to move.
38:05So, where's your pain mostly now?
38:08Which hip?
38:09Which?
38:09Which?
38:10Ah!
38:11So?
38:11Yeah.
38:12There.
38:12Yeah.
38:15So, I know you're in a lot of pain.
38:17Does it feel different to what it has done?
38:19Or...?
38:20Erm, I had a really bad car accident in August, so I've had a long recovery.
38:26Yeah, yeah.
38:26Broke a lot of bones, had multiple surgeries.
38:30I've had fractured pelvis, fractured hip, fractured knee, fractured sternum, fractured wrist, fractured wrist.
38:35Wow, it really was a big car crash.
38:37Yeah.
38:38We'll do some ofs, erm, and then see if we can go about getting you on a vehicle.
38:43And then we'll take it from there.
38:44Most likely going back for some checks.
38:47We'll grab...
38:48Should we grab a stretcher?
38:49Yeah.
38:49So, what happened with the car crash, then?
38:52Just some idiot.
38:53Erm...
38:53It always is, isn't it?
38:55Country rank.
38:56On the wrong side of the road.
38:58On the wrong side of the road.
38:58Head on into us.
38:59Oh, my God.
38:59All the way on our side of the road.
39:01Oh, my God, eh?
39:02Oh, yeah.
39:02It was bad.
39:05I'm just more annoyed at myself.
39:07I'm really angry.
39:08Yeah, but these things are going to happen, aren't they?
39:10You know, accidents happen.
39:12I know, I know.
39:14See if we can stand.
39:15Just use your good leg.
39:18Just...
39:18You're doing really well, OK?
39:21Just...
39:22Just...
39:22Mm-hmm.
39:24I know.
39:24I know.
39:25It's fine.
39:26Look...
39:26Look at me.
39:27OK?
39:28Just try the intonox, OK?
39:30No, no, no.
39:31I'm not finished talking yet.
39:33Oh, don't make a laugh at it.
39:34If it's excruciating pain...
39:36Yeah.
39:37...and you can't manage...
39:38Yeah, knees...
39:38No, straight back down.
39:40Yeah, yeah, OK.
39:41We'll sort it out.
39:42Don't do it in pain.
39:43OK.
39:44Ready?
39:45One, two, three.
39:47Here we go.
39:48No.
39:49Yes.
39:49Can you manage?
39:50No.
39:51No, OK.
39:52Yeah.
39:53Why don't we just get some morphine on board?
39:55Yeah, yeah.
40:02Give that a minute or two, eh?
40:03Do you want to use the intonox?
40:07So what do you do for a living?
40:10I'm a health and wellbeing officer for Gazelle.
40:12Yeah.
40:12There you are.
40:13So how is your health and wellbeing being?
40:16Crap.
40:23If you get a bit of rapport with people,
40:25they're a little bit more open about what's happening with them.
40:29It is important to encourage people to talk.
40:33There's always something else going on in the background.
40:36We're all dealing with stuff.
40:40It is life-changing, isn't it?
40:41Yeah.
40:42God, you must have been in a right state when you went to Leeds.
40:45Is the morphine kicking in yet?
40:47I think so, because I feel a bit like it.
40:48Good.
40:49Shall we do it then?
40:50Is that the pain going off a little bit?
40:51Does it help her?
40:52Big deep breath.
40:53Hang on, hang on, hang on.
40:55Sorry.
40:55Just a minute.
40:55Just brace yourself for it, eh?
40:57Deep breath.
40:57One, two, three, go.
41:01Well done.
41:02Well done.
41:03Good.
41:05All right.
41:06It's behind you.
41:07If you want to sit down.
41:10Well done.
41:11Well done.
41:12Just a minute.
41:14It's the panicking again, not the pain.
41:16I'm all right while I'm sat here.
41:17It's the panicking.
41:18Just because of everything from before.
41:22I'm just kidding.
41:23Are you panicking like that?
41:24I don't do all right.
41:24You're okay.
41:25Stop it.
41:25You did it before.
41:26Oh my gosh.
41:28Deep breath.
41:28You did it before.
41:30I hate that the panic just got there.
41:32I know, eh?
41:33Come here.
41:33Give me your hand.
41:35Just don't go to stop it.
41:37Come here.
41:40Try it.
41:41In through your nose.
41:42Out through your mouth.
41:44Listen to the sultry sound of my voice.
41:47Think of things.
41:48I know you've got a lovely voice.
41:49Think of things.
41:49You're on a beach.
41:50Your accent.
41:51In South Africa.
41:52Huh?
41:53Drinking a glass of red wine.
41:55Red or white?
41:56White.
41:56White.
41:57Oh, yes.
41:58Always white in the sun.
41:59Red in front of a fireplace in the winter.
42:02Good.
42:03Okay.
42:03There you go, huh?
42:05Yeah.
42:05You just need to take your mind off it.
42:07Just because I get in my head.
42:10Right.
42:11The last bit, okay?
42:13Just be quick.
42:14Okay.
42:15One, two, three.
42:16That's it.
42:17That's it.
42:17That's it.
42:19That's it.
42:20You're on.
42:21Okay.
42:21Use the gasoline.
42:22Come on.
42:23Well done.
42:24Well done.
42:25Okay, my love.
42:27Well done.
42:28Well done.
42:29Well done.
42:29Well done.
42:31Well done.
42:33Well done.
42:35Well done.
42:40Hopefully this isn't a big setback.
42:42I know.
42:42Hopefully not.
42:43But if it is, it is.
42:44It's disappointing and annoying.
42:46But at the end of the day, I'm alive.
42:56How are you feeling?
42:58All right.
42:58A bit sore.
42:59Still sore?
43:00Yeah.
43:01Hopefully I'll get sore to them back home soon.
43:13Imagine being in a car crash like that.
43:15And then she remembers it being so painful.
43:19You can tell she's traumatised by the memory of what's happened.
43:23Mm-hmm.
43:26Bless her hair.
43:34Yeah.
43:34I'm going to service.
43:36Hello.
43:37I'm in Wakefield Town Hall.
43:38I've got a big function.
43:39I've got a lady's just co-opted.
43:41Okay.
43:41Is the patient breathing?
43:43She's breathing.
43:44Yeah.
43:45Yeah.
43:46No.
43:47The eyes are shut.
43:54The nearest resource is 1692 Isbah and Nando.
43:59They are three minutes away.
44:031692.
44:051692, it's Katie.
44:07We've got a 75-year-old female.
44:09She's suffered a couple of collapses.
44:11She isn't completely alert, so she does have an altered level of consciousness.
44:16Ah, no worries.
44:17That's fine.
44:18We'll go and investigate.
44:20Thank you very much.
44:21Happy to do everything for you.
44:36Hello.
44:37Hello.
44:38Is it Christine?
44:39So.
44:40Three times.
44:41I'm Nando.
44:41Three times.
44:44Hello.
44:44Do you remember anything that's happened?
44:47Yes.
44:47Yeah.
44:48I was sitting at the table.
44:49Yeah.
44:50Chatting and I suddenly went all hot.
44:52Yeah.
44:52And I'd gone down.
44:54And that's happened three times now?
44:57Yeah.
44:57I think I'm beginning to feel a bit better.
44:59You're starting to feel a bit better?
45:00Is that because you've seen us two?
45:02Yeah.
45:02Yeah.
45:05Do you have diabetes?
45:07Any heart problems at all?
45:08No.
45:09Nothing like that.
45:10No.
45:10It's mainly anxiety and depression and I've got underactive thyroid.
45:14Yeah.
45:15I've normally been well.
45:18Pam that's had a few doves, not me.
45:20Which one's Pam?
45:21Pam, my friend.
45:23In the blue, Pam.
45:25Yeah.
45:26So what's happening here today?
45:28It was a tart by an orphan.
45:30All right.
45:30I'd have to know tears.
45:32Oh.
45:32They're going to put some stickers in your chest.
45:34You're all right, lover.
45:36I undid my bra because that would tie it.
45:38It helps, though, sticking these on.
45:41Do you know what?
45:42There's nothing nice after a long day than taking your bra off.
45:45Oh, I agree.
45:52Righty.
45:52Your ECG looks good.
45:55I think your friend's quite worried about you.
45:57I know.
45:57Your best friend.
45:58I've not seen it like this before.
46:00Bless her.
46:01All right, Pam.
46:02You'll pop in now if you want.
46:04We're all done.
46:06I've never known anybody, so I'll go three times.
46:08Yeah.
46:09But we did say it was quite unusual for her,
46:11so we'll pop you up to hospital if you want to go.
46:16Better to be safe than sorry.
46:18Actually, it's better to get checked, isn't it?
46:20Yeah, no, that's the right decision, lover.
46:22Yeah.
46:23You've always got the sense of that.
46:24Oh, well.
46:25Yeah, she does, doesn't she?
46:27I've been...
46:28I've been...
46:29Well, you know, I've been through it just these past few weeks, don't you?
46:33Yeah, I know, and you don't need any more.
46:35I lost my sister last year, so...
46:37Oh, sorry for you about that.
46:38You gave me a scare.
46:39You gave me a scare because I just thought,
46:42it's happening to Chris now, you know?
46:44It's the anxiety of it all, isn't it, last year?
46:47But I walk, you know.
46:48That's what friends are for.
47:04Well, welcome to our office.
47:08I'm a very independent person.
47:11I know, but sometimes you've got to depend on somebody,
47:14even if it's for a couple of hours.
47:15I know, yeah.
47:16Let us look after you.
47:17It's our job to look after you.
47:20Have a seat on this one in here, Pam.
47:21Come on.
47:26I feel like crying for the moment.
47:28Just let it go, Chris.
47:30Just let it go.
47:31I know.
47:32Let it go if you want to cry.
47:36Everyone has a story.
47:40Sometimes something that they've experienced in the past
47:42can resurface when they feel stressed.
47:45It can manifest in physical symptoms.
47:49Your brain controls everything.
47:52Have you had anxiety most of your life?
47:55I think so.
47:56It's got worse as I've got older.
47:58Yeah.
47:59Yeah.
48:01It might be because you know the good and the bad of the world.
48:06And maybe you've experienced loss in your life
48:09that's making you more anxious than usual.
48:13Because grief can hold into you.
48:15It never really leaves.
48:17I did hold on to grief for a long time.
48:21I lost a child when I was younger.
48:25And that comes out every so often.
48:31Everyone has trauma in their lives.
48:34And at some point, everyone does need to face it.
48:37And somehow deal with it.
48:40So you're only a young girl, aren't you?
48:43Yeah.
48:43How old do you think I am?
48:46You're 20s?
48:47I'm 30 next month.
48:48Are you?
48:49Yeah.
48:49You are a little spring chicken.
48:51Oh, no.
48:52Do you know, I didn't really want to be 30.
48:54I hated it.
48:55It felt really odd.
48:56Do you know what?
48:57Can you finally say that?
48:58I'm looking forward to my 30s, but that's only because I hated my 20s.
49:02Did you?
49:02Yeah.
49:02Yeah.
49:03This proves you just see somebody in the street and there's things going on other people's
49:08life.
49:10I'm feeling better than I did.
49:12Good.
49:12Because we've talked, haven't we?
49:14Yes.
49:15Yeah.
49:21You never really know what someone's actually going through until you go in there and you find
49:34out.
49:35I'm doing surveys for patient breathing.
49:39It's struggling to breathe.
49:40All right.
49:41Could you tell me exactly what happened?
49:43Well, we have cancer at the moment.
49:46It's throwing up a load of blood.
49:48Right.
49:49Okay.
49:50That helps being organised.
49:51You got you doing really well.
49:52Okay.
49:53You'll stay on the line with me.
49:58Yeah.
49:591812.
49:59You have attended a 62-year-old male, a cancer patient, vomiting blood.
50:06PTA of one minute, I've asked.
50:09Yeah, that's all I see.
50:10Thank you, Paula.
50:12Has he got any pain?
50:13Yeah.
50:14His bowel cancer he's got, certainly.
50:16Right.
50:16Okay.
50:18Are you still vomiting?
50:20He's just done it again now.
50:22That's quite a lot that's coming up, Paula.
50:24Yeah.
50:25His bowel cancer he's got, certainly.
50:27Yeah.
50:44Can I just ask, in terms of what you want, and where you're going, is it planned to stay
50:55at home and be managed at home?
50:57Okay, mate.
50:58All right.
50:59Do you have district nurses at the moment at all?
51:01Well, I don't.
51:02I don't let them get up.
51:04Okay.
51:04And this blood you're bringing up at all, when did you start doing this, when did you start
51:07doing this, when did you start filling up this blood?
51:08When he came.
51:09So he was not filling up the blood before this, this is the first time today that was happening.
51:13Yeah.
51:14And John, your biggest concern at the moment, is it the pain or is it the vomiting blood?
51:19The vomiting blood at the moment.
51:23It's all right.
51:25Tell me about that.
51:26It's all right.
51:29John, my plan is to have a conversation with Goldline, all right?
51:32Yeah.
51:33Maybe get some medication we can give you to stop that sickness.
51:35But I think if it's bleeding, we need to try and stop that out.
51:38It just took me quite sore.
51:40Yeah.
51:40So, okay, cool.
51:42Hello.
51:43Hi there.
51:44You all right?
51:44This is John.
51:45He's got bowel cancer, end stage.
51:47So, son and daughter are here.
51:49So, we need to make them comfortable.
51:50Yeah.
51:50Do I have some morphine for you, mate?
51:51We'll give some subcut.
51:54How are you feeling?
51:55Hi, John.
51:56Oh, shit.
52:00You feel sick at the moment, John?
52:02Yeah.
52:03Hello, my name's Alistair.
52:04I'm a part of the Oxford Ambulance Service.
52:06I'm currently with a gentleman called Jonathan.
52:08I believe he's under your care.
52:10He's vomiting the blood.
52:11He's regularly doing it now.
52:14I'm not convinced that hospital's a great place to go,
52:16especially with him being so unwell
52:17and the potential possibility of things coming to an end in hospital.
52:22I just wonder what we can try and do to help him, basically.
52:26That's perfect.
52:28I appreciate your help.
52:30Cheers.
52:30Bye-bye.
52:35So, that's Lydic Goldline.
52:37She's going to phone both hospices.
52:38And we'll see what we can do from there.
52:40We'll try and see if there's any space to take him to Aracuria or Manorlands.
52:46Yeah?
52:46I just thought I knew him.
52:47Yeah, absolutely, yeah.
52:51What ever's happened internally is probably going to be...
52:56What would require would be surgical intervention,
52:58but because of his cancer, he won't survive it.
53:01He won't go through that.
53:01So, when I do say that, yeah, I'm sorry.
53:05I don't know how quick that'll be,
53:07but we need to make him comfortable because he's in pain and distress.
53:10And that's the idea of what we want to try and make sure that he's...
53:15That we can support him.
53:16That's what we can do.
53:17So, unfortunately, we go from one level to trying to prevent it,
53:20and then now we're just trying to...
53:22OK.
53:23I'm sorry.
53:25But he's been quite sudden, and that's one of the basics of...
53:27I didn't expect it, though.
53:30The palliative with him last week.
53:32And she says when it gets to the last few weeks,
53:35then the things we put in place,
53:36and I said, well, how will we know when it's the last few weeks?
53:39You don't know.
53:40There are things we look for.
53:41Yeah.
53:42But we just didn't...
53:43We just didn't...
53:45So, the hospital's definitely not half the cards,
53:47but I'd like to prevent that,
53:49because they're going to bring...
53:50They're going to...
53:50They'll be able to support him comfortably,
53:53but it's in a busy need department, we don't want that, OK?
53:55But I'll try and prevent that at the best I possibly can.
53:57You all right?
53:58Thank you very much.
53:59We're going nowhere.
54:00We're going to make sure he's looked after, yeah?
54:03How's your pain, John?
54:07Not so bad, Co, so the morphine's working, that's great.
54:09That's fantastic.
54:12Did he make it?
54:14You see a wardrobe.
54:15It's sturdy, isn't it?
54:16Now it's a table.
54:17I was thinking that's a sturdy table, yeah.
54:18Proper Yorchman.
54:19Yeah, absolutely.
54:20Knuckle's broken, is it?
54:22It's somewhere else.
54:23Father's grandad's got this bit of wood from a shelf.
54:24I can't remember where he's got it from, but he refuses to give us a bit of wood up.
54:28He's been there for ages.
54:29It'll come in handy.
54:30Yeah, absolutely, yeah, yeah.
54:31What did you do for a career then?
54:34An electrician.
54:34Oh, right.
54:35That felt handy then, innit?
54:36Yeah.
54:38Very handy.
54:39It was good to offer that around, innit?
54:48It's all right.
54:49It's all right.
54:49It's all right.
54:49Hi, it's Alistair.
54:50Hi, it's Alistair.
54:51Hi, Becky.
54:55Okay, thank you.
54:56We're pretty much prepped to go, yeah, so we'll, erm, if you're happy to receive, we'll
54:59head up to Marie Curie.
55:02Cheers, Becky.
55:03Thank you very much for your time.
55:04Bye-bye.
55:04Bye-bye.
55:06So, Marie Curie's accepted him, so let's get him on the ambulance.
55:14Absolutely.
55:15Yeah.
55:16Thank you very much.
55:18Okay.
55:26John, I'm going to pick you up, mate, all right?
55:28Ready, steady, lift.
55:32John.
55:33We're done, mate.
55:33We're done.
55:34That was it.
55:34Nice move on for that.
55:46We're done now, John.
55:48All right.
55:49That's it.
55:49I'll see you up there, all right.
55:50Nice.
56:18We all lose our parents at some point in life.
56:21Help.
56:22I have done.
56:23If something exciting has happened in my life, my dad would have been the first person
56:27that I picked the phone up to.
56:31Seeing his number on the phone and knowing that you're never going to talk to him is quite
56:35tough.
56:36I hurt myself.
56:38Other people are going through it as well.
56:41We need to talk about things, get them off our chests so that we're in a good place to help
56:48the people around us.
56:49Yeah.
56:50All right.
56:51Thanks for a good shift.
56:52See you later.
56:56Hopefully by talking about my past traumas, I can better help people than I'm going to as a paramedic.
57:02Couple of music
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