1 am. Dark, wet, quiet. Apart from an ambulance on its way to a male fitting.

Thats us by the way.

We get there and struggle, as is so often the way in council developments, to find the house.

Someone appears out of the dark, "IN HERE." he shouts.

"Ok", says my crewmate

"HE'S FITTING,"

Bags grabbed we indicate to the man to lead the way. We head under a low arch and up some stairs that are full of junk to a room and a semi naked man lieing on the floor (Not fitting).

"I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO. SO I PUT A PILLOW UNDER HIS HEAD"

"Is he epileptic?" asks my crewmate.

"WHAT?"

"IS HE EPILEPTIC?"

I'm putting oxygen on him at this point. He is showing all the signs of being post-ictal. This is normal after a fit, sort of the brain rebooting itself

The other man, who is very deaf, is shuffling about so we give him something to do which is writing down all the fitting guys details on a piece of paper. He picks up a leaflet and writes things across the print. The result is completely illegible so we send him off to do it again.

Oxygen on its just a waiting game really. I take in the room and it is very cluttered but what really stands out is that it is full of tubes of Pringles. Hundreds of tubes of Pringles. Flavours I've never heard of, flavours I have heard of. Hundreds of tubes. He was obviously a collecter.

The deaf man reappears.

"Is this a council place?" asks my crewmate

"WE USED TO BE UNDER SOCIAL SERVICES BUT THEY BEAT HIM UP SO WE LEFT. I'M HIS CARER"

Trying to shake off the image of a social worker standing over him with a bloodied clipboard shouting "Give me some Pringles" we change the subject.
"How often does he fit?"
"EVERY DAY"
"He has a fit every day?"
"YES"
"Did he have one yesterday?
"NO."
"What about the day before?"
"NO."
"When he fits does he have one or more than one"
"JUST ONE. HE NEEDS TO GO TO HOPITAL TO BE CHECKED OUT"
"We know whats wrong with him. He's epileptic"

Anyway. This arguement was going round in circles but the guy who had fitted had come round enough to say he didnt want to go to hospital so we left him there.