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What made me happy today...

ComaChameleon — Tue, 04 Apr 2017 18:42:48 GMT

Hey guys.

In one of my old forums I was a member of (not existing anymore since this year), we had a thread where everybody just told in short what made them happy this day. Thought it would be nice for here too!

To start: I'm working for EMS and my first call today was am expected birth. So we hoped we would be able to bring her into hospital just in time. But it didn't work. I was at the patient and she just said "it's coming"... My team-mate was driving REALLY fast, it took him about an kilometer to brake - during that time the baby was just born. Even we were a really young team and not long into job, we did VERY well and even the doctors told us we did excellent.

(Our last call was a reanimation on the street, the woman did not get an own circulation again.... But I guess that's the circle of life :D)

Re: What made me happy today...

Marjo — Wed, 05 Apr 2017 11:51:40 GMT

Awesome! I like this thread. So many busy days where we only think of work and stress.... So reading about happy things is a great idea!

It's still quite early in the day but what made me happy this morning was that it was sunny again. Makes me feel very energetic!

Re: What made me happy today...

Glory1 — Wed, 05 Apr 2017 13:44:58 GMT

What made me happy today is looking out of my window and seeing leaves on the trees. And, yes, @Marjo the sun is shining and the sky is blue. A beautiful spring day. I love it....😀

Re: What made me happy today...

MercedesS — Wed, 05 Apr 2017 14:28:57 GMT

Lovely idea @ComaChameleon

What made me happy today... was to see that you all were happy!!!!!

Re: What made me happy today...

ComaChameleon — Wed, 05 Apr 2017 19:20:59 GMT

@Marjo wrote:
Awesome! I like this thread. So many busy days where we only think of work and stress.... So reading about happy things is a great idea!

..And seeing the negative things instead of the little good things. It's important to appreciate the little nice things in life. I guess @Cleoriff can tell many stories of people who even if they're dying are more happy then other people and so on.

Today I brought an old grandma to the ER. She was afraid of the hospital and didn't wanted to, so I talked to her and she agreed to come with me. In the ward, there was nobody (And that's VERY weird, because wednesday afternoon ALL GP's have an free afternoon, so the ER is always full). She told me she's afraid alone there (saw she's taking pills against this kind of things). So I talked to the nurse and she told me she can't stay at hers - aswell as I wasn't able to. So I took her to the waitingroom and sat her between other peoples and found someone who looked after her.
So I kinda feel it was a good deed today.

Re: What made me happy today...

Glory1 — Wed, 05 Apr 2017 20:55:45 GMT

@ComaChameleon doing the job you do I imagine you do at least one good deed every day.

I have been taken to hospital twice by ambulance as I was unable to get there by myself unaided. Each time the paramedics were brilliant and I was and am very grateful to them.

I am not frightened of hospitals I just don't like them - as a patient or a visitor. I cannot praise the medical staff enough for how they looked after me and made better.

I think all of you in the medical profession, whatever job you do, are amazing. Thank you........😀👍

Re: What made me happy today...

Anonymous — Wed, 05 Apr 2017 22:22:40 GMT

My mum rang me today, she is very frail, all the more so after my dad dieing last year ... but ... she wanted me to know her Mothers Day flowers were still doing well, she told me they came well packed in the post ... I was so grateful to her as I've been down & quiet lately ... & ... I'm so proud of her for managing to live her life after her husband of 65 years has passed away

Thank you Mum for making me happy today

As has been said above, I've been taken into A&E more than once late at night & the ambulance staff were wonderful with me

Re: What made me happy today...

Anonymous — Sat, 08 Apr 2017 19:49:42 GMT

this thread seems to have been duplicated

could someone delete one of the threads please ?

Re: What made me happy today...

ComaChameleon — Sat, 08 Apr 2017 20:15:08 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
this thread seems to have been duplicated
could someone delete one of the threads please ?

Had that problem with different threads since the last like 2 weeks 😕 Thought it was my stupid laptop...

Re: What made me happy today...

Marjo — Mon, 10 Apr 2017 09:10:04 GMT

@ComaChameleon wrote:

@Anonymous wrote:

this thread seems to have been duplicated

could someone delete one of the threads please ?

Had that problem with different threads since the last like 2 weeks 😕 Thought it was my stupid laptop...

It's 'stickied' at the top! Just to highlight a nice happy thread @Anonymous & @ComaChameleon so even if the list of threads grows, this would still be always accessible from the top of the list.

What made you happy over the weekend by the way guys?

Re: What made me happy today...

gmarkj — Mon, 10 Apr 2017 10:12:20 GMT

Had family round for a BBQ in the rather unseasonal weather.

Re: What made me happy today...

Anonymous — Mon, 10 Apr 2017 15:47:31 GMT

just been out for a walk ... & ... had fish n chips then finished off with ice cream & dandelion & burdock

Re: What made me happy today...

Marjo — Mon, 10 Apr 2017 17:23:12 GMT

Today I was happy when instead of having to take the bus and the train to work, I got a ride in a car all the way there. Also, the sun was shining on my face and it felt like a hot day in July (even though outside of the car it was actually a bit chilly).

Re: What made me happy today...

Marjo — Mon, 10 Apr 2017 17:23:41 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:

just been out for a walk ... & ... had fish n chips then finished off with ice cream & dandelion & burdock

What's your favourite ice cream flavour @Anonymous?

Re: What made me happy today...

Anonymous — Mon, 10 Apr 2017 18:01:12 GMT

@Marjo wrote:
What's your favourite ice cream flavour @Anonymous?

tuti fruiti ... but ... it's not widely available so I happily settle for vanilla ... yes I know a bit boring

Re: What made me happy today...

Anonymous — Tue, 11 Apr 2017 20:15:54 GMT

my son rang me today in his lunch hour

just to hear his voice makes me

he is to be married a week on Friday

Re: What made me happy today...

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 13:09:46 GMT

@ComaChameleon

Following the terrorist attack on the bus carrying the Dortmund football team last night, I was heartened to read reports of the solidarity between both sets of supporters. Here's a nice video that has renewed my faith in humanity somewhat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGP2egtDQGA

Re: What made me happy today...

Glory1 — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 15:48:02 GMT

Yes @ComaChameleon it is indeed heartening to see supporters of both teams coming together uniting against the horror of the bombs. There are still many kind people in the world. Many more than the sickos who set out to maim and kill people purely because they think differently than them. We are all different but we are all the same - human.

Re: What made me happy today...

jonsie — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 16:02:59 GMT

With so much sadness about these days, any hint of camaraderie is embraced and held aloft as a beacon saying this scum won't win.

Security begins after checking baggage in and these turban wielding warriors did their homework whilst yet again Europe's open borders policies put every citizen at risk whether targeted or not.

Let's be honest, despite the atrocities we are just about getting away with it.

Re: What made me happy today...

ComaChameleon — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 20:29:38 GMT

@Anonymous@Glory1

yes... amazing. Aswell as the hashtag bedforawayfans (or something like that)...

As long as the good behaviour and deeds are the majority, we will win against this stupid scumbags.

@jonsie

guess many would say reading from you again and see you're recovering will make many a people's day a bit happier

Today we got a call saying "lifeless person" (means a doctor will come too to the scene, we're not allowed to handle it on our own as an ambulance). The doctor had like 20 minutes to get there, so we entranced on our own. The son of the patient opened the door, telling us his father died (80+). Him and his mother were ok with it and it was a peacefull situation. Problem: if you call your gp (closed on wed afternoon), he is able to just write the papers and everything's fine, you can call the undertaker and so on... But if you call us... we are forced to reanimate, even the patient has a paper saying different. The son was like "oh, no, please not... He didnt wanted" and so on - even gave us papers telling the last wish of the father.

Law says we have to reanimate, as we have to think with his last breath the patient wanted to stay alive, just a doctor can say it's ok. So mostly it's performed a "reanimation" (not ... really, just like theater). My collegue had the balls to say "we'll wait for the doctor and not just push on his chest and so on"... I'm kinda thankfull he had that huge balls and that we were able to grant the last wish of this old man. The doctor told us we did right, so no problems with law and stuff, aswell as the son was happy we did it like that. It kinda makes me happy, even if the reason is a bit sad tho.