Jess Sparrow 🐥
@JessicaSpara
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Paramedic with special interests in gardening and photography. Pet Mam to Quentin Tortillino 🐢 and Tyson Furry 🐈⬛.
Newcastle Upon Tyne, England
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My low key flex was that introducing “restock shopping baskets” at work was my idea 😎.
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My patient today asked me if I was “courting” at the moment, and when I replied no, told me “it’s okay you have vibrators 🤷🏼♀️”. She was 78 years old. And that is why I’m grateful for masks hiding my face 😂
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Final shift well underway. Hope everyone’s Christmas has been okay and my colleagues are hanging in there! 🚑💨🎄
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I remember the first time I saw this algorithm it gave me shivers and I hoped in my career I would never have to face a situation requiring this. The first paramedic on scene at Manchester bombings should be given a bloody medal not vilified by the press for clickbait.
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Ready for my first nightshift of 4 of the Xmas period. Good luck all my fellow healthcare professionals. ☁️✨🚑💨✨☁️
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So we’ve recently changed from 12 hour shifts to 10 hour, and let me tell you after just a few weeks of it so far, my work / life balance and energy levels are so so much better. Even with a late finish I’m not exhausted going home. Have time to actually get some errands done.
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Well then, how much sense does this make to you lot? 🚑
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Crew mates: you know their deepest darkest secrets, complex childhood issues, intimate details of their relationships and they know yours. But never seen them in a pair of jeans 🤯 😂
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Happy 2 years qualified to me 🫡18 cardiac arrests, 1 baby delivered, 1 needle stick injury, 5 thank you letters, a few tantrums but not a single day where I’d want a different profession. 🚑
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Be honest Twitter is the steth holder a bit “all the gear nee idea” of me 😆
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One day, when I am a creaky old paramedic with a bad back, I’m going to write a cookbook for shift workers. Recipes ranging from pre shift optimism to mid block of 5 delirium. Survival food for overworked. What would be on your list?
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Consultant in a super busy ED still took the time (~5mins) to talk through a CT head with me and discuss what I could see / pathology (and lack of) and it was so rewarding. Little nugget of calm clinical discussion amongst the chaos.
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“Patient verbally aggressive, declined assessment from crew, full capacity” 👋🏻
Sorry, but if this ambulance turned up for me, I’d tell them to sod off.
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Officially signed off as a fully qualified Paramedic 🎉
(After completing 2 year newly qualified paramedic period with portfolio and lots of CPD)
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Unique ambulance crew skill: knowing exactly where you are on the approach to hospital (whilst in the back) by the combination of potholes / roundabouts / turns etc. Ie for my local ED it’s a roundabout, 10 potholes (bone shakers), another 2 roundabouts, a left turn and a bump.
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4 years ago vs now 😂. Turning 28 at midnight while I’ll be working hard on nightshift 🥳.
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I just want to be the best paramedic and know everything about every condition and how everything works and be kind and face anything without flapping and be a good mentor and never miss a cannula and know how every drug works is that too much to ask?
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Working for the ambulance service is knowing which petrol stations are better than others for food / snacks.
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Taking time off “sick” because I’m mentally not in a good place to be caring for other people and once again feel it would be easier and much less guilt inducing if I had a broken arm. I firmly believe you cannot be a paramedic half arsed / tapped out. There are no easy days.
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Ever noticed how ambulance crew act as makeshift weather reporters for ED staff?
“Still raining out there is it?”
*ambulance crew soaked through with mild hypothermia* “aye aye”
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Paramedic school doesn’t prepare you for how often you will be bare bottom farted at in this job
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PC: Paramedic with muscular back pain. (Now off duty)
HxPC: lifting lots of poorly people in awkward positions for last 7 days.
Obs: grumpy.
Tx: 1g Paracetamol, 400mg ibuprofen, 250ml Pinot Grigio, 1 x scalding hot bath.
Worsening advice ignored.
(It’s me- I’m the paramedic)
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My mental health has taken a nose-dive over the last couple of weeks. Gone back to some dark places I’ve worked so hard to leave behind. Woke up this morning full of shame and self pity but forced myself into the garden.
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Favourite moment from first shift back on placement:
Me: is it okay if I have a listen to your chest
*pt lifts up top and speaks to chest*
Pt: chest do you mind? No? Okay!
😂
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I’ve said it before and no doubt I’ll say it again. It is an honour and a privilege to be welcomed into someone’s home or life in their hour of need. The trust we are warranted by wearing the ambulance service uniform is precious.
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Do you ever think how bizarre it is that we calmly get ready to go to work, with packed lunch etc, to potentially deal with unknown death and destruction? And then we come home and put the washing on??? The juxtaposition 🤯🤯
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This would have been a very awkward time to get a call. 🚑
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There is no way to stay correctly hydrated AND not spend a significant amount of time uncomfortably needing a wee whilst on a frontline ambulance shift. 😰
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1 month alcohol free so far🎈. I’ve actually got into a good routine with running and exercise. Ran 7km in my fastest time yesterday and burst into tears. “Small things lead to bigger things my friends, so let’s not rot”❤️
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Assessed my (very feisty) elderly patient last night with productive cough, low spo2 & unilateral basal crackles…told them “I think you might have a chest infection”. To which they replied “well no shit”. 😂
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Happens all the time but I’m always impressed with how well ambulance crews that may never never have met each other before work together (especially with big sick patients). I’m sure it happens in other areas of healthcare too but damn I can’t help but think we’re good at it.
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Don’t get me wrong I would never want a different career but sometimes when you’re not feeling quite 100% but not ill enough to be off sick it would be nice to do a job where you can just “do emails” and be in close proximity to amenities such as a kettle and a toilet.
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My crew mate and I have accidentally discovered the intercom system in the bus. So I’ve been giving airplane pilot take off and landing style announcements. Combined age of nearly 90 between us as well. 😂
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I really shouldn’t be afraid of being judged by received ED staff when I bring in an unwell paediatric patient but yet here I am, frequently feeling nervous and ashamed for being “over”-cautious. I’m on my own in the back with a poorly kid & worried parent & doing my best. 😭
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Nothing says ambulance crew breakfast like inhaling a slice of someone you don’t knows birthday cake in the crew room at the start of shift.
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Does anyone else ever get an overwhelming feeling of sadness on nights? I don’t mind nightshifts at all but every now and then I’ll just feel so very sad and isolated from the world whilst on shift.
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Honestly this is an argument I will have FOREVER. So beneficial having your stopwatch/time on wrist without needing to touch anything. If my wrist ends up in someone’s open wound I think there might be bigger problems going on.
Ambulance crews shouldn't need to be "bare below the elbows". The scene they picked the patient up from had more pathogens than Porton Down, a watch strap is not going to harbour anything worse than their boots!
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I only get dressed up once a year (for the work Xmas party) so I do apologise for the double post. 🤷🏼♀️🥳💄
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I’ll get some nice pictures with the pets before I go to work 🙂🥴🥲🙃
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I would love to see a weightlifting competition, ambulance edition. Yeah you can lift 10 tons, but can you deadlifts 100 kg that’s actively fitting? Or down the stairs whilst connected to a monitor and oxygen cylinder? How about the crowd are intoxicated & run on stage ?
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If, in this life, I can find a partner who will earnestly tell ambulance crews how wonderful I was, how every day without me is a day too long, then I have truly found love.
I wish the deceased could hear how their loved ones speak about them to us. They break my poor old heart.
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Yesterday I asked my young patient if they wanted to take any entertainment with them to hospital like a GAMEBOY. The look of derision from my patient AND crew mate was something else. I don’t know what the kids play these days! (I am 28 btw) 😂
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Just checking it’s okay to sit up after a shift and have a small cry about a sad job.
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Passed my blue light driving assessment for
@NEAmbulance
, DBS and documents tomorrow, uniform and then hopefully your girl Jess will be our being a useful human! 🚑💨
#COVID19
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Ive written something about finding out I had
#ADHD
and the absolutely mission it’s been to get to where I am now (a qualified Paramedic). I’m hoping it might resonate or be useful for some. Continued in comments.
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Random fact about me: I once “modelled” hockey sticks.
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Ah yes spring time 🥶
(I’ve not started shift yet so won’t be wearing knitted mits to see my patients)
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Do all ambulance crews do a test *brrr* of the IO gun at the start of each shift?
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Just because you narCAN doesn’t mean you narSHOULD.
Unless respiratory depressed or arrest, why are “over-dosing”
#naloxone
to patients with suspected opioid use?
(I’ve been working on that for two days btw)
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Since my confirmed ADHD I’ve been pondering on parts of my job (paramedic) that are ADHD friendly and parts that are not so much. E.g driving on blue lights ✅ (stimulating, sense of urgency, skill that’s not too hard not too boring). Standing in queues ❌. Any more ideas?
#ADHD
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Laid my wonderful Grandma to rest yesterday. A perfect sunny day with lots of people there to remember her. I managed to do a reading of the poem Ulysses by Tennyson. Star guest - Biscuit the trainee guide dog (the owners have cared for over 30 trainee pups over the years) 🩵
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Unfortunately if I wore these my “here for a bad time not a long time” tattoo would be visible and alas I don’t think that would be appropriate for work 😂. Glad to see options are being given to staff though 🚑💚
As our summers get warmer some of our people have asked for shorts to be provided as part of our uniform. I’m pleased to say that
#TeamWAST
will soon be able to access shorts for use at work in the summer months to make working in the hot weather more comfortable.
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One reason I would like to become a specialist paramedic is so that I can be Sparrow the SPara. Sparrah the SPara in these parts. I probably wouldn’t mention that in an interview but I thought Twitter should know.
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So my 13th cardiac arrest patient was my first sustained ROSC. And over half my cardiac arrests have been since I got my registration. More arrests in 6 months than in 4 years (pre and during uni working frontline and placement).
#PointlessStats
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Do all trusts call the number of outstanding jobs “the stack”?
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The more experienced I get as a paramedic the more I discover different ways things can break.
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The ambulance gods have a funny way of knowing when I’m feeling a bit disheartened and throwing me some wonderful patients that remind me why I do the job.
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Drinking my morning cuppa watching the sunrise and the little birds on the feeder. Everything I ever wanted.
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Officially diagnosed with mixed ADHD and I’ve just jumped around the kitchen with relief & happiness. 10 years of struggling with my mental health and now I feel like a weight has been lifted. 🤩🥳
#adhd
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Me at 21 (only 7 years ago tbf). In the depths of horrible relationship and becoming more and more isolated from friends. My hair was pretty at least (natural length no extensions)
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I think, realistically, it’s safe to say “no” 99.9% when a patient asks you (an emergency ambulance crew) to remove their boots as they’ve had a new carpet fitted, right?
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You know what I think I’ll be 30 years into this career as a paramedic and still buzz off someone telling me that I did well and they’re proud of me. Be generous with praise I think. This world is tough.
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I will enter the roughest pubs to get to my assaulted patient; I will climb fences to get to my fallen patient; I will face wind, rain, snow whatever comes at me to help my patients. Except wasps. They’re on their own if there’s wasps on scene. 😭
(Satire ofc)
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Successfully avoided getting vomit on my uniform. Which I for one think is a talent.
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My birthday today! Saw it in with my lovely crew mate and cake on our meal break at 5am 😂.
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Nothing, as a 28 year old independent grown up human, motivates me more to clean my house than my parents coming to visit. And yes I know you’ll see this Sue.
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I knew the fire service get more downtime than us but this is taking the biscuit! 🚒🚑
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Well that’s half my stuff all moved in. I’ve already met 3 of my neighbours and apparently the whole street has been waiting for me to move in 😂. Quentins had his first sit in the garden too. Such a beautiful day for a new project.
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@gardner_bea
I’ve had a patient who became unwell whilst walking their dog (alone). Luckily able to drop dog off with family but we did get to have a furry companion with us temporarily. I asked the ED consultant what we would do if no family - “you’re NOT bringing it to my department” 😂
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Final ambulance placement shift completed. Yes I’m still smiling at 6am after a nightshift.
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Very interesting first day (for me) at
@TraumaCareUK
conference on the HEMS programme. Learnt what a lateral canthotomy is! (Amongst lots of other things) 👀
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Happy NYE from me and Quentin. I’m in between day shifts and he’s in between naps. Stay safe everyone. 🐢💚
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This platform has been a really useful learning tool for me over the years I’ve been training and qualified as a paramedic. The amount of random nuggets of information, interesting studies and discussions I’ll stumble upon is ridiculous. /1
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Does anyone else idly ponder what they would do if they were in a public place off duty and there was someone *critically ill*? Would the call handler believe that I’m an off duty paramedic? Would the crew take me seriously in purple leggings and a fleece?
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The first time I can remember having a “table for one” was roughly 10 years ago at the ripe old age of 18 in a Zizzi somewhere in London just after my first tattoo (big back piece). I ordered a pizza and a glass of Pinot. Here I am a decade later still on the same shi
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Radio goes with cat 1 straight away this morning.
Me to control: “Rodger that all received no worries”😇
Me to
@onekneeteacher
whilst running to ambo:
“CHRIIIISSSS WEVE GOT A CAT ONE!! GET THE SHUTTER!!”👹
Chris:
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A brilliant day at
#PreHospMatNeo
@ParamedicsUK
👶🏼 Learnt so much and got a chance to get stuck in! I wish I could do this kind of training all the time.
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A small companion. Feeling horrendously drained last few days and I’m back to work tomorrow 😭
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*Me trying to follow up on patient I brought into ED*
“They went home”
🙂🙂🙂*eye twitch*🙂🙂🙂
*I WANT TO KNOW WHAT WAS WRONG BUT I DONT WANT TO WASTE YOUR TIME PLEASE JUST TELL ME MORE.*
“Okay thanks”
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“The hours between 12am and 6am have a funny habit of making you feel like you’re either on top of the world, or under it.”
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