Do You Speak English?

Tuesday, July-13-10

At home I actually had more time than I expected to relax before my night shift. I took my time, had a nap, showered, and ate and then headed back to the station at about 10:15pm. I find arriving to a night shift so much nicer compared to the morning shifts. There are so many less people and no confusion. My chul partner and I were immediately told our driver and ambulance number and it was just going to be the three of us, my favourite combination by far. The driver was a really chill guy who I’ve had before so that’s always nice and it turned out to be my quietest night so far. We had just two calls. Both were for severe stomach pains where we just transferred to the patients to the hospital. The first patient was an oleh hadasha (new immigrant) so we got to feel especially helpful since our driver barely spoken any English. The second patient was a man who was clearly in a lot of pain and again I felt kind of helpless since there wasn’t really anything we could do besides get him to the hospital. We got back to the station at about 3am and didn't get another call all shift. Not even the expected call between 6-7am, before the morning shift is ready to go, which in my experience has always happened. Even though I basically had all day off I didn’t get up too much and I am basically just waiting around to go back to my station for tonight’s overnight. I guess the schedule didn’t really work out in my favour this week but I don’t mind. I just want lots of call and the beach can wait a bit until my week off before I leave.