Fit
Can't believe I've only just remembered this....

The gf and I were heading from the local to the casino just before christmas last year. We strolled along in our finery and turned the corner (ss1 if you know where that is in deepest SX) to arrive at a scene of a young lad (late teens) a bike with its front wheel buckled and an equally young girl who was in a right state. Tears and much mascara.

After a couple of quick questions it appears this guy was diabetic and had had a fit whilst on his way to meet his girlfriend, stacked his bike into the nearest wall and was now not responding.

The gf turned him on his side whilst I dashed to the casino to get sugar / hot chocolate, as I'd been told moons ago. By the time I'm back he'd fitted and tried to lump my gf and his. Within 20 seconds he had gone back into a coma. The ambulance arrived about ten minutes later and after 3/4 further fits. He was treated there but they couldn't get a line in due to his thrashing around. A further ten mins passed on the pavement before they could get him in the back of the ambulance where a further ten mins passed. My gf phoned his mum on her phone as she was hardly capable of talking straight between her sobs and tears.

The paramedic came out of the back of the ambulance and advised that he was not stabilising and they had to get off asap. They wouldn't allow the girlfriend in the back of the ambulance, so I went to the taxi rank and paid for a taxi for her to follow her bf to the hospital.

There was not enough time to swap numbers with her but I hope he was ok.
(Suck it and Sea, Thu 16 Feb 2012, 8:27, 7 replies)

top effort! hope the poor blighter made it ok.
(wino.NZ The Ayatollah of rock n' rolla..., Thu 16 Feb 2012, 9:14, closed)

good work
( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Thu 16 Feb 2012, 9:47, closed)

We need more information...
Did karma instantly repay your kindness by giving you a MASSIVE payout at the casino? or did events put a dampener on the evening and you thought you'd give it a miss?
(FartThroughAWalkieTalkie wished you were dead in ditch on, Thu 16 Feb 2012, 10:10, closed)

Call his mum
you said the GF dialed her mum on your GF's phone? You have the number. You could have called her. At any rate, excellent work and props to you.
(mortdubois lacks imagination, doesn't play well with others, Thu 16 Feb 2012, 13:00, closed)

I read it as poster's girlfriend phoned fitter's mum with fitter's girlfriend's phone.
Could be wrong though, it's happened before.
(FartThroughAWalkieTalkie wished you were dead in ditch on, Thu 16 Feb 2012, 13:17, closed)

Nice one...
...love your work. I would never refuse to let a relative travel with a patient in my ambulance unless there was a valid reason. Seems a bit harsh on the part of the paramedics.
(emadex thinks the world will end on, Thu 16 Feb 2012, 14:31, closed)

maybe the relative was on fire?
( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Thu 16 Feb 2012, 18:41, closed)