I'm off to see some mates, and get pissed
One of them has had an amazing week. She works as a nurse in A&E, and this week had to deal with a 20 year old who'd been shot through the arm, and the bullet had gone through his heart too. Wasn't brought in an ambulance either, just 2 of his mates carrying him through the door.

She told me all the gorey details about how they had to crack his chest so they could plug the holes in his heart, then massaging his heart to try to get it to start beating again, before applying paddles directly onto it to shock. She says she's never seen so much blood, and wouldn't be surprised if any of the blood in his body now is actually his.

I love hearing things like that, they fascinate me. She's also had some drunk guy threaten to kill her.

Nurses are fucking hardcore.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Fri 7 Jan 2011, 13:52, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

One of my mates worked on the phones for the ambulance service but "wasn't supposed to talk about it".
One call she took while training was a chef who decaiptated a colleague with a cleaver during an argument.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Fri 7 Jan 2011, 14:01, Reply)