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.