First St John Ambulance duty

On Tuesday evening I completed my first duty as Trainee First Aider with St John Ambulance. The duty was the Brighton and Hove Albion Vs Derby football game at the Amex Stadium.

Being in full uniform has it's perks. It allows us to access all areas at the Amex, so we got to use the staff only lift, while Joe Public had to climb the 100 steps up to West Upper, where Aaron and I were based for the evening.

We had, in my opinion, the best seats in the house. At the very top of the stadium, above the highest seating block.

As well as being my First St John duty, it was also my first football game. what an atmosphere! There were definately some very passionate Seagulls fans there.

We only had one call out during the duty, and as it happens, just as we came off the stands and behind to the bar area to see to the man, Brighton Scored. However, we didn't miss out because Brighton scored again that evening.  

Rumour has it Fatboy Slim and Des lynam were there too.
All in all it was a brilliant night, hopefully to be repeated many times in the future.

And this blog would not be complete without a photo, unfortunatly I didn't take any, but I found this one online, and it is pretty much taken from where we were sitting, so you can see our perspective of the game.

In other news, after chatting to Aaron all evening about SECAmb and St John, I came home and emailed SECAmb's Community First Responder scheme, to see if I could get involved.
Watch this space...


Holly xxx