Well now today was as usual as it gets in our job, the normal jobs that require no real description, as they offer no amount of interest or worthiness of writing!

Until that is I was called to a cardiac arrest for a 40 year old gentleman: firstly being on my own on the car in the middle of nowhere I thought - "S**T" - cardiac arrest at 40, that's not a good job....

For me if I go to an elderly patient has a cardiac arrest I don't feel to bad about it because they have had their life and most of the time there time has just come.

However to have to go to a 40 year old is a bit different, especially on your own on the car, when the job is aprox 30 min from the nearest ambulance in the deepest darkest depths of a forest in the arse end of nowhere!

So anyway I make good time (having a nice car that goes like s**t off a stick, and me driving it!) and I get to this guy who to add to the difficult nature of the job is in a somewhat odd place!

He's a hunter out for the weekend and has unfortunately passed away in a hutch no bigger than him!

So negotiating a very small ladder - with my very heavy kit, and nearly falling down this 12’ ladder in the process (adrenalin has been delivered to my body now on multiple occasions!) I reach the patient.

Unfortunately he had been dead for a little while and there was nothing I could do for him. RIP!

A bit of a sad job all in all, I felt really sorry for his friends who'd done what they could before I arrived – yet unfortunately we were all too late.

I also felt really saddened for his poor wife who lives elsewhere in the country and is going to have what must be the worst experiences you can, to have a police officer knock on your door and tell you a loved one has died! I hope the family are ok!

Anyway, enough today I think, hopefully tomorrow will bring some happier jobs!