I did wonder if it made a difference time-wise if you turned up in an ambulance compared to in your own. The good thing for me is that I'd already told everything to the ambulance officers and so they'd written it all down and passed it all on to the hospital, so I think that made things a bit quicker and easier.

For me, where we live makes a difference. If I were just to go to the local hospital, I could get there quicker than an ambulance could get out here then get us back. I didn't really consider though that we'd need to go to the other big one so given the condition and distance, ambulance was warranted. The one with DD though, they all seemed so confused that we'd just turned up on our own!