Having a heart attack. Back home later.

This film is bad but I’m going to keep watching.

People have been through much worse than this

My friend is in hospital she had to call the ambulance herself

and I can’t stop thinking how that would feel,

And when she phoned me to tell me how she was all she could talk about

was the paramedic who came to her house.

he’d had a stroke when he was 31

and this was his first week back at work

after being away for eighteen months.

Is there a backstory you are given as a paramedic

That matches the condition of the person who needs help?

Keep calm and rejoice in my story of recovery.

You are breathing normally now without me needing to say

Breathe normally.

They will need to do some tests.

Let’s walk out to the ambulance

the hospital is full of people neither of us have met yet.

It won’t be long until you’re back here

watching a film you don’t enjoy.