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It's difficult to know what to say when your team look to you for answers and you yourself are struggling to find a rhyme or reason. Shit happens, bad things happen to good people...there are hundreds of sayings and euphemisms I could use but the point is this: You are going to die. You might not know when, which may be a good thing but it is the one and only thing that you can be sure of in life.
So tell the people that you love why you love them, and mean it.

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So we pick up the pieces. People ask for our help. We do the best we can with what we can. And still we are slated.
Slated by Richard Madeley and now also Anne Widdecome. Such pillars of society themselves...a shoplifter and a floor polisher on Strictly come dancing.
It's a shame that people who have an opinion of the Ambulance Service are ignorant by not getting their facts straight and only reporting half a story.
If anybody believes that an ambulance crew would sit eating their lunch whilst a child (or anybody for that matter) is in cardiac arrest then the world really is more fucked than I thought.
Every day at the moment we are slated, every day we keep coming back for more.
Give us a break!