Have you ever been taken by ambulance to hospital A&E?

Yes, probably around half a dozen times, though fortunately not recently!

I had a missed abortion and started to bleed heavily while we were watching Quatermas on TV.

Twice.Once after a car drove into the back of my car which was stopped at traffic lights.DD, aged four was in the car, horrific.We had to be cut out of the car.
Then two years ago I had a bad flare up of diverticular disease and was unconscious.DH called the ambulance which really surprised me as he is so laid back I honestly thought I would be nearly dead before he ever called for help.I remember the lovely paramedic talking to me all the way to the hospital which really annoyed me at the time but with hindsight I realise they were trying to keep me conscious once I had come round.

Fortunately no, but as a nurse have accompanied patients - interesting to see the traffic parting like the Red Sea as we glided along!

Wouldn't like to be waiting for an ambulance these days - heard a chap from a Newcastle hospital this morning saying he waited over three hours on the pavement with a broken leg

I've been take to hospital twice by ambulance.

First time DD2 was about 3 months old and I was struggling to shift an infection, breast feeding meant medication was limited. On the day I had taken DD2 up for afternoon sleep, I remember starting to go downstairs but woke up at the bottom of the stairs next to the telephone table.

Managed to call DH's work, got his colleague, he called the Ambulance, left a message for DH and came to the house until the Ambulance came. DD2 and I were taken to hospital and I was there for 3 days and DD2 had to have a bottle from then on - hasn't hurt her but upset me at the time.

Second time, getting ready for work I sneezed and couldn't move. Turned out I'd put a disc out as well as dislocating my Sacroiliac Joint (who knew we had one of those :-) apparently we have 2.

After laying on the bedroom floor for ages I called work. Thought I'd be able to get myself up and about with time but by the evening I was worse and I was feeling very sorry for myself and in a lot of pain.

Neither DD live near and DH was working abroad so my only option was Ambulance.

When it arrived my friend was the driver :-) I had 5 days in hospital, I don't remember much of that time.

First time on Morphine and hopefully the last time - some very weird and disturbing experiences but it did take most of the pain away.

Thankfully on day 5 DH got back to UK and DD1 arranged time off work to collect me and stay with me until DH got home.

Lots of Osteopaths appointments and doing the exercises got me off the walking frame the hospital sent me home with.

I really do appreciate what we have here in the UK and I think the staff are amazing given some of the situations they have to deal with.

They are good. DH called 999 for me a month ago, after twice collapsing. They said they would be 5 to 8 hours but were here within two. They said they weren't very busy that day, a Friday morning.

A number of times. The last time was with another heart attack in January. The paramedic was French and from Lyons, where I had studied.
I remember looking up to see DH in a Star Wars face mask, looking totally bemused, as the paramedic talked to me in French! It was surreal.
DH wasn't allowed in hospital with me, due to Covid restrictions.
That was a very scaryand lonely stay in hospital.

A friend of mine fell last week at work has put her knee out in dreadful pain she was making the most agonising noises bless her. Took two ambulances to get her to hospital first one came after three hours couldn’t administer pain relief. Sent for another one that took another two hours and she’d lain on the flour nearly five hours before they got her to A&E.

Yes, a few times since a heart attack in 2012. All the paramedics were wonderful. Thank you NHS.

Once with pneumonia and I can’t praise the ambulance service enough. Brilliant.

Never been in one as a patient but having been a paramedic for 11 years I’ve been in the back with patients and driven them on blue lights

Yes. I was in such a desperate state that the blue lights and awfulness went right over my head.

Yes, in April last year, when I fell and broke my back. I was admitted to hospital and was in for 3 days.

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Goodness! Ladyledtfieldlover do they call you the bionic woman in your house?

I’m afraid they do! The first lot of metalwork in my arm was there for over 30 years. When I slipped and fell that metalwork smashed the bones up! The x-rays were amazing. The surgeon put in a new lot of metal work and used the old ones to show to his students. A couple of years later I finally had the metal work out. My arm is still a bit curved.

Yes, 3 times in the last 3 years Paramedics were wonderful.

Enjoyed a gentle journey to hospital when I broke my shoulder attending a GC's sports day, oh the embarrassment!

Yiayia4, what a terrible experience.

I was ambulanced to hospital when I tripped over my feet and fell when out, and my glasses made a cut to my eye just under the eyebrow. The fall also looked as if I had banged my head on the pavement (I hadn't) and the traffic manager who saw it was afraid I might have concussion.

I was taken to from community to district hospital during labour with my first child, when labour stopped abruptly through shock, when I read in the paper that our neighbour, an airline pilot, had been killed in an air accident the previous day.

Yes, many times. Once when I was very poorly the paramedics took me out of the house on a stretcher and started working to stabilise me in the ambulance before setting off to the hospital. I was pretty much out of it but my husband said the ambulance was outside for long enough that almost every near neighbour managed to find a reason to walk past. He followed in our car and was alarmed when I was halfway to the hospital and suddenly the lights and sirens came on and the ambulance sped off.

In addition to my own excursions I've also had a very sick child, so trips to hospital on lights and sirens was a regular feature of life for many years.

Yes. First with the birth if my second child.

Then more recently with suspected heart. -twice? but last time decided it was gall bladder. I should have followed it up but lockdown happened and I haven’t yet followed it up.

Yes, though only in recent years. Twice with labyrinthitis, the symptoms of which could also be of a stroke, and then when I fell and fractured my leg in two places. My 17yo came with me for the latter and said I was high as a kite with the morphine by the time we’d travelled twenty miles to hospital!

Yes..fracturing and dislocating my ankle! It didn’t hurt for ages though the power of adrenaline I guess.

Yes some years ago when I knocked myself out when I fell off my bike. I came to on the roadside and could only see the blue flashing light.
More recently a few weeks ago when I was taken in in the middle of the night to hospital with atrial fibribulation.
I have to say that on each occasion the paramedics and ambulance drivers were wonderful.

No, not yet and I am 70 now. Fingers crossed. My DH has though.

3 times. The first time I got kicked by a horse ending up in a heap on the floor but not actually that badly hurt (broken ribs and a few in my hands) but ambulance had been called and they insisted I went in. Second time I came off cross country schooling, horse stopped and I didn't, six broken ribs and 2 stable fractures of my spine. The paramedics were absolutely fantastic as was my 11 year old daughter who was schooling her pony over the same jumps. She's now a doctor! Third time was after the first lockdown, I took my horse away for an intensive dressage course, woke up feeling a bit funny so drove the lorry home and rang my GP, who saw me immediately. She rang for an ambulance and I went to hospital. I couldn't fault the service that I have had, paramedics have been so careful with me. I have huge respect for them.

Once personally when I was 14 and my brother turned a car over. (we were OK really cars were like tanks then) And a couple of times with my mum. She had an extensive medical history and when she broke her wrist (I think the 5th time-2on left, 3 on right) we both started to laugh when the ambulance man asked for a brief medical history.