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General | Posted 15 years agoThis account still has more watchers than my new account does - y'know, the one with good stuff on it? So I figured I'd post another journal stating my move.
Also, several people have watched this account since my move, and I've gotten several notes.
If you don't care to watch it, at least check it out -
herzlos
But, who reads journals anymore?
(( Seriously, check out my new account. It's 134730 times better. ))
Also, several people have watched this account since my move, and I've gotten several notes.
If you don't care to watch it, at least check it out -
herzlosBut, who reads journals anymore?
(( Seriously, check out my new account. It's 134730 times better. ))
Chronicles of an EMT?
General | Posted 16 years agoI've been volunteering in my town since late December, and I've run many calls in that short time. I even saw my first dead body - a 19y/o who shot himself in the head. Well, first dead body other than at funerals and in pictures and such.
Most calls are right out of the textbooks. Straight to the point. Yadda yadda yadda.
Some calls are false alarms.
Other calls surprise us... like one we got tonight.
The call was for an unconscious 63y/o woman not breathing. Time down was unknown, so we knew we had to get there as fast as we could. Can you say 95mph down a 50mph highway?
We arrive right as the ambulance does, and their Paramedic runs on inside. She was cold. The monitor is hooked up, and there is no electric activity in her heart. They shock her, but she doesn't respond. She'd been dead long enough to go through rigor.
I had to stand there and watch the husband cry.
Going back outside, I approached the EMT as he stood by the ambulance and was promptly offered an egg roll. I admit - I lol'd.
That's what we have to do, though. It becomes like second nature to us. Stare death in the face, and then crack a joke, or else it consumes us and destroys whatever sanity we have left.
Most calls are right out of the textbooks. Straight to the point. Yadda yadda yadda.
Some calls are false alarms.
Other calls surprise us... like one we got tonight.
The call was for an unconscious 63y/o woman not breathing. Time down was unknown, so we knew we had to get there as fast as we could. Can you say 95mph down a 50mph highway?
We arrive right as the ambulance does, and their Paramedic runs on inside. She was cold. The monitor is hooked up, and there is no electric activity in her heart. They shock her, but she doesn't respond. She'd been dead long enough to go through rigor.
I had to stand there and watch the husband cry.
Going back outside, I approached the EMT as he stood by the ambulance and was promptly offered an egg roll. I admit - I lol'd.
That's what we have to do, though. It becomes like second nature to us. Stare death in the face, and then crack a joke, or else it consumes us and destroys whatever sanity we have left.
