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.