Thank you thank you thank you.

POPPYOSCAR

To all those wonderful people out there that work in the NHS and in difficult circumstances I know.

THANK YOU for saving my brothers life last night without you he would not be here right now.

tealady

Poppyoscar hope your bro is ok.
To anyone who works in the NHS thank you for being there. I know it is an over worked and under funded service,yet many thousands of you turn up 24/7 and 365 days a year.
I feel that too many people forget that the NHS is based on need and not ability to pay.
So, it is not a perfect service, well neither are the people who work there, but as the 1st World War saying goes "if you knows of a better hole, then go to it"

POPPYOSCAR

Thank you tealady.

He was rushed into hospital in the middle of the night.

He had a blot clot and bleed in his brain.

The paramedics were there in minutes, he was taken to the local hospital and transferred to a specialist hospital and was being operated on by 5.30am.

They are keeping him sedated but will not know the extent of any damage for a while.

I should find out more today.

Pollycat

Fingers crossed for good news, Poppy. :grouphug:

POPPYOSCAR

Pollycat wrote: »

Fingers crossed for good news, Poppy. :grouphug:

Thank you Pollycat.

He is having a MRI scan tomorrow will hopefully know more then. But they have said they are pleased with him neurologically so far.

He opened one eye slightly today and moved one hand.


What would we do without these fantastic people and the work they do.

It saddens me that the vital job they do is not rewarded more.

knightstyle

Wish we could get paramedics in a few minutes, took 34 mins last time, they claim a median response time of 10mins 10secs but it seems longer!
Took over two hours for an ambulance when a young lad at our youth club broke his arm and went into shock!
No we are not in the middle of nowhere.

Pollycat

knightstyle wrote: »

Wish we could get paramedics in a few minutes, took 34 mins last time, they claim a median response time of 10mins 10secs but it seems longer!
Took over two hours for an ambulance when a young lad at our youth club broke his arm and went into shock!
No we are not in the middle of nowhere.

Maybe it just depends on exactly where you live, how busy they are at the time a 999 call is made and how they prioritise the calls they have?

Either way, hopefully they got to Poppy's brother in time.

Dizzy_Ditzy

My best wishes to your brother for a full and speedy recovery

Ms_Chocaholic

Hope he makes a speedy recovery.

Former_MSE_Andrea

Love and hugs POPPYOSCAR, brother and family

Andrea

xx

dld2s

knightstyle wrote: »

Wish we could get paramedics in a few minutes, took 34 mins last time, they claim a median response time of 10mins 10secs but it seems longer!
Took over two hours for an ambulance when a young lad at our youth club broke his arm and went into shock!
No we are not in the middle of nowhere.

Yes sometimes you may have to wait a while as they may be busy but they also work on a triage system, the emergency's like poppyoscars brother, heart attacks, strokes, unconscious casualties etc. will be dealt with first, most broken bones are not normally life threatening.


I work in a Sports complex and we get quite a few injuries, sometime ambulances have been there quickly other times it's been a while, as I said it all depends on the injury, for example, we had a emergency where we had to use CPR and shock a young lad twice with a defib to get his heart beating normally, the ambulance arrived very quickly, in fact it was only a minute after we did 2nd shock, I'm guessing they were quite close by? also emergency operator had been told casualty was unconscious and not breathing so it would have been moved above broken bones as a priority