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Cool? :? I don't know why you'd run out of class to a call if you're not even a Basic yet...What would an EMT-B student do on scene besides be a bag bi**h and "learn by observing". IMO you would have been better off staying in class and learning all that you can there. But congrats on your first call!

After Co 8 was alerted for a possible fire hazard on an apartment balcony.... Engine 814: "We're clear, just some homeowners gettin' their grill on" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ After a lengthy dissertation of patient information..... Paramedic 6**: "....have an 18 gauge in the patients right arm at this time. Is there anything else you'd like me to do Trooper 1?" Trooper 1: "Is lunch available? lol Paramedic 3**: ".....patient is in and out of consciousness with blood from the ears." Trooper 1: "Sounds like a real medevac for a change" Paramedic 3**: "That would be correct Daddy" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Last night after Chief 5-2 cleared from an animal rescue. Chief **"Chief ** clear" "Chief ** MEOW, 20:31"

You dutch oven your wife!!! :sign5: I just about peed when i read that

but she didn't

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Yeah, did anyone else get the mental image of the cashier being a rather large black woman :?: :?: :? :shock:

Never heard of Sticky fingers, but the best bbq in my area is this place called Andy Nelson's BBQ. I'm drooling just thinking about it :bounce:

I have a 5 guys right down the road from me. It's basically amazing food. AND they have peanuts there that you just chuck the shells on the floor when you're done

Well if you know what you want to do, then go for it. Do some college searches and find some that have your major and talk to your parents about it. If you get all the information on the colleges and you present it to your parents, maybe they'll see how serious you are about going to that college or whatever. But there isn't anything wrong with staying at home and going to school, it's all depends on your situation. What are you interested in majoring in?

No one can tell you what you need to do. It's a personal decision based on what feels right to you. But that being said, what do you want to do? If you go to college do you know what you want to study? Find a college that has what you're interested in and visit it and get some info on it. If you have no set idea of what you want to do as a career, do a semester or two at a community college, you can take you gen ed credits that you'll be taking as a freshman in college anyway, while also exploring different subject areas to "put your feelers out" in search of something that interests you. Good luck!

I know that it's a big no-no to double post, I guess that I just got frustrated and impatient. :oops: It's just that me being the only "medical person" in the family they all come to me for answers about his treatment and why things were done the way they were done. And of course, I don't have the answers that they're looking for. So me being the "medical person" that I am, I come to you guys of EMTcity b/c if ya'll don't have some input or answers or whatever, then no one does. lol. Sorry again for the double post.

I posted this in the U.K forum too, but hopefully I can get some more opinions over here... Ok, so heres what's up. Last saturday (9-22) my Uncle was in England on a business trip, specifically the Yorkshire area, and was involved in a serious car crash. From the information that I could piece together he was broadsided by a police car that was possibly in pursuit of another car. Well anyway, the car was totaled and the air bags did deploy. When the ambulance arrived they didn't put a cervical collar on him, nor did they put him onto a backboard. He was transported sitting upright in the ambulance and while he was at the hospital they didn't do any CT scans or x-rays. He received stitches for the laceration above his eye and he cannot remember much of the accident. They did not admit him to the hospital and he is now at some type of Bed and Breakfast. Now a few days later he is complaining of chest pain and shortness of breath. I guess my question is, why weren't spinal immobilization precautions used and why wasn't he given a CT scan or x-rays once at the hospital? I'm just curious as to the protocols over there and if the lax treatment he was given is standard. I honestly don't know anything about EMS overseas and would appreciate any information that can be provided. Many thanks, Scott

Ok, so heres what's up. Last saturday (9-22) my Uncle was in England on a business trip, specifically the Yorkshire area, and was involved in a serious car crash. From the information that I could piece together he was broadsided by a police car that was possibly in pursuit of another car. Well anyway, the car was totaled and the air bags did deploy. When the ambulance arrived they didn't put a cervical collar on him, nor did they put him onto a backboard. He was transported sitting upright in the ambulance and while he was at the hospital they didn't do any CT scans or x-rays. He received stitches for the laceration above his eye and he cannot remember much of the accident. They did not admit him to the hospital and he is now at some type of Bed and Breakfast. Now a few days later he is complaining of chest pain and shortness of breath. I guess my question is, why weren't spinal immobilization precautions used and why wasn't he given a CT scan or x-rays once at the hospital? I'm just curious as to the protocols over there and if the lax treatment he was given is standard. I honestly don't know anything about EMS overseas and would appreciate any information that can be provided. Many thanks, Scott

brentoli wrote: Haha, yea we had a few diapers left over since the patient didn't need them. But the White Castle surprisingly agreed with all of our stomachs. lol. But one thing that I do have to say about White Castle in Trenton NJ is that the counter was behind inch thick bulletproof glass! :shock: Seriously, you slide your money underneath the glass through a slot and you get your order through a bulletproof box, they open their side and put your food in, they close the door, you open your side and get it out!!!! I'm a country boy ya'll. From the land of barn fires and where we have "drive your tractor to school day" (no lie), I've never really felt so scared for my life then I did at the White Castle!

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We could have them on our person, but not have them on during class. However there are some people who believe that just because the pager says, "property of H*****d County Government" on it, they think they're immune to the "no portable communications device" rule that we have in our schools.

Weather was b-e-a-utiful. Leaving Maryland it was around 78 degrees, up at the Cape it was around 70-72 with a brisk breeze blowing off the water. I wish we could have stayed up there longer, or drove up to Canada go get a picture of the ambo next to a "welcome to Canada" sign. Oh well, maybe on the next trip

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So here is a run-down of our trip: We get to the station at 0600 to find our unit fully stocked with a cooler of drinks and a plastic storage container full of toilet paper, napkins, straws, plates, and diapers . We get a call dispatch saying that the facility that we're picking the patient up from isn't aware that she's leaving. So it takes an hour and her family member that has Power of Attorney to get them to release her. We arrive, load her and her suitcases into the ambo and head out. I drove the 4 hours which got us into Connecticut. We made really good time on the NJ Turnpike. lol. Then we switched drivers and I went into the back with the patient. She was great all the way up and never needed her diaper changed! So we finally made it to Cape Cod and enjoyed the scenery and town before we returned home. We really milked the return home, it took us 7.5 hours to get to MA and about 8.5 hours to come home. Some things that I learned on the trip home: 1) The clam chowder in New England is amazing 2) People are really nice in Cape Cod. 3) Rhode Island should not be considered a state. It takes about 15 minutes to drive through. 4) Connecticut is deceivingly large 5) Bronx traffic is a bitch. 6) Going to find a White Castle just for the heck of it is fine...but not at 1230am in the ghetto of Trenton NJ. :shock: 7) White Castle is amazing 8 ) Our ambo tops out at 95mph. 8) Overall it was a great trip and I would definitely do it again!!!

Yea, same here. Being in shape is an important thing in EMS. But I really don't think you'll be running marathons in this job. lol. Yea, you may have to climb a hill or something, but nothing super crazy. I rarely run for physical exercise, what I do is lift weights and such to build up the upper body. Cause man, some of those bags get heavy after awhile. lol. Where did/do you go to high school?? Was it a public or private school? I thought that phys. ed. was mandatory in public school???

We plan on asking for a back-up diaper just in case. It's really not fair to the patient for me to stop to pee but have her pee on herself and just stew in it. Thats just gross. But we are in a van unit so it might take a little ingenuity to orchestrate a diaper change. lol. We're leaving from here tomorrow around 0600 and are to pick up the patient somewhere in Baltimore around 0700 and from there we're going to try to hit our destination by 1530. We'll then grab something to eat and be back on the road home by 1630 and get back home around 0130-0200. I think that I'm going to bring my iPod and a DVD player for the trip home. But chances are i'll be sleeping if I'm not driving. lol. I'll let ya'll know how it went when I get back. Thanks for all your input.