The day after the day after the night before...

Mark left on Friday. I felt very proud driving back from the airfield in the beast by myself.

I pottered around the clinic for a while, opening drawers and trying to figure out how I was going to reorganise things. Cleared some crap off surfaces, and rearranged the script drawer. Lovely warm afternoon.

Then there was a bit of a rush as people came in for their pills before the weekend. I met a few people I had been told about, had a few chats. Everyone was very nice and understanding while I was trying to work out the documentation etc.

So then before you know it it was time to lock up. Got everything sorted, put the newly washed sheets on the bed in the flat, and started checking windows and closing blinds.

Then the clinic bell rang. It was a fellow who had been chopping wood and a splinter went up into his eye.

I flushed it out with saline, but he could still feel it. So rang up J. Told me where to find the fluorescing, and had another go. Had him sat up in the dental chair washing out the fluorescing (nice fluoro yellow streaks everywhere) when the bell went again.

There had been a car accident, 4 people in a ute, lost control going round a bend and flipped. This was one of hem...flung out of the ute and landed on his belly. Thought he might have cracked a rib...obviously in some pain.

So onto the bed he went, on went the monitor (first use) and checked him out. All ok on the surface, but yeah likely a cracked rib. On the phone again to J, told me to keep an eye on him for a bit.

Tummy got tighter and more rigid...hmmm, maybe a slow bleed?

Rang the doc, told me to get him the helicopter.

Finally after much toing and froing and changing of plans, the copter turned up to take my fellow to the hospital.

Very proud of myself cause I managed to get a line in, only on my second attempt and with minimum fuss (though I couldn't find the NS injection ANYWHERE).

They very lovely L. general maintenance and person in the know got the lights set up down at the pad.

When the ambos turned up, we also found out the another person, a girl in the front seat of the ute, who had been knocked out, then promptly went AWOL with her boyfriend, had turned up.

So they decided to take her as well. Oh that is when the drama began.

Then yesterday. They discharged her, so had to arrange to get her back...everything ok, just a knock on the head.

But the fellow with the abdo injuries had discharged himself against medical advice. Ho hum.

But everyone seemed impressed with me. I stayed calm, I did things logically.

And my friend with the splinter in the eye went home and I haven't seen him since, so hopefully he is ok as well.

Talk about a baptism of fire!!!