Emergency!

That's oil... that leaked from the radiator area... I think... and threw up all over the engine... We had brought this elderly woman in earlier in the day ... her neighbors found her laying in her own feces, urine, and blood on a couch... nobody had seen her for 4 days, and I'm guessing she had been on the couch for 4 days. Anyway, we took her to the local hospital which then decided to transfer her out with blood infused for a major GI bleed. So we were doing the emergency transfer, lights and sirens, then here comes the smoke covering the front windshield... I shut 'er down, and called for the other unit to come take the call... we waited for the tow truck to bring a backup... safe to say ours will be in the shop for quite a while. And yes, I checked the oil... or at least that's what's written on the check off sheet for the day *winks*

Is it? I do love this time of year. The weather, the holidays, and most importantly the food. But, as far as work goes and the EMS field... it's not the most wonderful, it's the most deadly. This year anyways. The past I don't know how many shifts we have picked up at least one dead person. The last shift I worked wasn't any different. The call volume does seem to be slowing down for the Christmas holidays as it did last year. Last shift we only ran 2 calls. One was a nursing home call. A woman started going in to dementia and screaming... with no past history of it. That was nothing more than a simple load 'em up and take 'em next door to the hospital. That was at 11:30am. We didn't have our next call until 7:30pm. There was a student there on the other truck and she only had to get one more emergency call and she could go home. Go figure the only day that we don't do nothing all day is the day she needs just one call to go home. She went home at around 10pm that night I think. We both got toned out at 7:30pm for different calls. We took a call that was 20 miles out in the county near the Lousiana border. The other truck took a call in town. Our call was for an unknown man down parked in the middle of the road. When we got there he was doa. It looked like he might of had a heart attack or something and just slumped over. His foot was still on the break, headlights still on, but his truck had stalled out. Luckily for our amusement a little puppy showed up on scene and we played with it for the hour and a half it took for the coroner to show up. The coroner then took it home with her. After that we didn't have any more calls for the rest of the night.

Happy Holidays everyone! I know it's been a while since I've published a new blog. I just lost interest in it for some reason. And I've also been busy with other things. I hope everyone is doing well and enjoying the holiday season so far. Let's see what have I been up to lately... work as usual. I recently went on vacation so I enjoyed that a lot. I went to Cleveland, OH. The past 2 months at work have been horrible. Excluding the last shift, we've been running our butts off. Almost every shift we have at least 1 death. Last shift we had an 82 year old woman pass away at her home. She had called her friend and asked her to come over. The friend said that was highly unusual for her, so sensing something was wrong she rushed over. To find the woman having severe chest pains. Before they had a chance to load her up in a car and take her to the hospital the friend said she collapsed and died. She then called another friend over. And called 911 40 minutes later. By that time there wasn't anything we could do. So we pronounced her dead. The shift before that we had a death at the correctional facility. That death is under investigation and we might have to go to court over it, or so I am told. I haven't heard what all went on with it, I think they're keeping it secret because of the investigation. But we got called to chest pain early in the morning at around 7am. When we pulled up a guard came outside and told me that the patient was down and they were doing CPR on her. So we worked her, took her to the hospital where they pronounced her dead. All that I was told by the guard was she had a respiratory infection and was suppose to see the doctor later that day. She got really sick at around 3am and "looked like she wasn't going to last much longer" according to the guard. But the nurse wouldn't call for an ambulance since she had an appointment later on that day. She was only 37 years old. Other than that... we've had a change from the normal "BS" calls ... to actually having "good" calls. And boy have we had a lot of those. Every shift non-stop it's someone near death, heart attacks, strokes, chf, drug overdoses... I'm going to get started working on this blog again. I'm currently in the process of getting registered to start paramedic school in Jan. After I start I will be going part time at work. Since there isn't really away I can go to school 8 hours 3 days a week and work a 24/48 shift pattern. I have an appointment with the college on Tuesday about that... so I'll know more about all of that then.