Overnight

Went to bed at eleven, woke up at seven thirty. That's a good overnight. I needed the rest.

They called our number for the first time at quarter to eight. A COPD at an elderly housing complex. We got back, sat around for an hour or two, then did three back to back calls, a fractured hip, bad pnemonia and syncopla episode. Three of our calls were all at the same elderly housing complex.

It was a damp, dirty day, the kind you need to hose the ambulance down after every call. When got back from the hospital, you couldn't see out any of the back windows.

We gave the guy with the fractured hip 5 mg of Morphine and he slept all the way to the hospital.