Listen. I can't hear it. I think its gone away.

I think, I think things are back to normal. We still don't get much time when we're not doing anything but its not as crazy busy as it has been for the last few months. I hope this isn't just a blip on the radar but we'll see.

The sun has been shining today, which was nice. It always seems to help my mood when the sun comes out, maybe I have a mild form of S.A.D.

Anyway. The rota changed at the begining of the week and we now have a load of new times to start. Unfortunately one of them is six in the morning. I don't care what they say, getting up at 4.30 in the morning is not right. It's practically yesterday.

I haven't been with my normal crewmate this week because the ECA's have finally arrived in force. I might write more about that in the future but at the moment I'll just say that my objections remain unchanged.

We backed him up today at a chestpain today. But as per normal it wasn't that easy. A 70 year old who was quite fit and well, went swimming at least twice a week. She had no cardiac history at all.

She had felt  a bit dizzy and had gone to lie down. Then she had got all sweaty and her chest had got tight and her vision had greyed out. Now this all says that her blood pressure had dropped for some reason. But why?

We gave her a full MOT witha n ECG included for good measure.

There was a bit of interference on it (you get that if the person moves) but it said that she was having a heart attack. We did another one, that said she wasn't having a heart attack. We did a third and that also said she was having a heart attack. But throughout all this she remained the same. Indeed after the third one the chest tightness went as well.

So had she or hadn't she? We took advice from one of the ECP's and he said that it could be Coronary Artery Spasm. Basically what happens is that one one of the arteries to the heart cramps, and constricts. Blood flow to the heart muscle is restricted (temporaly) and the symptoms are the same as a heart attack but dissapear within minutes.

She had it again on the way to hospital but we got her in with no pain. We left her about to have an angiogram so hopefully they'll sort her out.