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Jump Start SuicideI'm at work right now. It's only 2:24 and it feels like midnight. It's been a busy day for our area. First off, and I mean as soon as we walked in the door and start our shift, we get a suicide. So we go on our way (6:30am) to where dispatch told us to go... we were going to standby and wait for police to secure the scene when dispatch called us back and told us they cut the body down (it was a hanging) and put it in the car and was going to meet us. So we go to the meeting place and look inside the car. This guy is tossed in the back seat of an SUV, cold, rigid, obviously dead, and obviously nothing we could do, for him, a 45 year old drug addict. The brother and brother in law was driving the SUV and they had some odd behavior. I'm not sure if it is because they were in shock or something else. The whole story seems a little bit weird to me. First off they said that he hung himself with jumper cables that you use to jump start your battery. The police went on to the scene and found a bucket, jumper cable, and a bottle of beer. They couldn't think of a reason as to why he would kill himself, besides the fact that he had an ongoing affair with a woman and he was married. We took the body to the morgue after the coroner came out and examined the body more closely to find that there were imbedded marks in the guys face from where the cables had caught him in the upper face/jaw. It didn't hit his neck exactly but it still squeezed his blood shut and obstructed his air flow. They still haven't ruled it a suicide of homicide yet.
Coming off of that we get called to a seizure. It's way out in the woods somewhere. We get there the vol. first responders are there, and the woman's daughter. My partner goes in and I get the stretcher ready... he's wanting suction the daughter's yelling suction so of course our portable suction fails. We get her in the ambulance only to find nothing to suction out even though there's some gurgling noises coming out. So, obviously the woman is having a seizure... my partner gives her some valium and it starts working on her and getting things calmed down, not good enough... we run lights and sirens 17 miles to the closet hospita. Come to find out a guy we had brought in a few shifts ago died. He had came in the doctor for a broken wrist... passed out and fell at the office, went back to the hospital later that night, got released, passed out again and broke his hip, had a full scan done to find a mass on his brain stem, his stats start dropping, we take him to a better hospital and he died yesterday. After we got done with call we had to wait around for a few minutes. Everyone was tied up running calls and we were waiting to get our regular truck back (It was in the shop for routine maintenence). So we go and get that taken care of. We stop by this sub shop ... they have the best sub's I've ever tasted though... kind of expensive, $9.00 for the large meal, not to bad, better than subway just costs a little more. There's a joke going around the station... well I won't go in to graphic detail but for any of you that have seen "Waiting" one of the guys here was exposed to the "Bat Wing". He hasn't been the same ever since. He's a lot sweeter now and nicer... more talkative... we're starting to wonder about him... he's developed prostrate problems from it... well if you've seen the movie you'd understand more about what's going on with that. It's 10pm now and I"m going to try to get some rest... hopefully they'll leave us alone tonight I haven't got much rest today since we've been steady with runs all day long. Comments (7)
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