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I like to let one rip just after ive got into bed..

Then pull the covers over my wifes head and pin 'em down!!! Laughing Laughing Laughing

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

but she didn't

short bus :twisted:

Abyss

Grand Canyon

ass

Strippel, by your post it doesn't sound like she was that good looking.

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:

On the subject of best hamburgers

Anyone been to any of the Five Guys Burgers joints around the East coast?

I'll put those burgers up against any other chain.

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

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Did you save some diapers for yourself?

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!

puke

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.

How's the weather on the Cape now?

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

:shock:

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!!!

I run like 10-20 min and im already out of breath.

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.

they dont make you take PE in high school

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???

Don't forget to ask for diapers.

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.

Wow, it's been interesting reading all of the replies.

So today I stopped by my service and spoke with the person who is in charge of putting this transport together. Basically I told them that I didn't feel comfortable doing an atleast 16 hour transport with just 2 crew. I gave them the ultimatum of either finding another driver to send with us, or to find another driver to replace me, OR to let us get some rest before returning home by staying at a cheap motel or something. Hell, I'd take staging in a Wal*Mart parking lot and sleeping in the unit. lol.

I wasn't sure how me telling my employer this would go. Considering that whenever you refuse to go on a call, its a mandatory 30 day suspension. :? But they were obliging and gave us a 3rd crew member. So now there is 3 of us on this transport which should make it go a lot smoother. It's still going to be one hell of a trip, but this way it should be more manageable and safer for everyone.

Wow, I guess that there's even things that a CNA can do that a basic can't [or won't]. That said, if you're in a van you probably won't have enough room to change a diaper anyways.

Yea, it's not that we won't change her diaper, I'm sure we could draw straws for that, but our service doesn't want us changing her diaper and I don't believe that we're being provided with extra diapers. My supervisor said, "by the time they feed her in the morning and that goes through her, they should have a fresh dry diaper on and as long as she doesn't drink too much or eat too much you should be OK until you get up there". :?. I don't know about you, but I sure as heck cannot hold my bladder for 8 hours. If I have to go, then I'm gonna go. lol. The idea of a CNA or a family memeber coming with us was tossed around, but at last i heard it was just my partner and myself. This was totally a rushed operation and should have been planned out better.

Yeah, I'm not sure about planes for the transport. I know that the patient's family contacted our service, and I guess that money talks. But as far as I know, our patient is going to be in a diaper for the trip, and it is a BLS transfer with my self and my partner being EMT's. We don't have experience or training to change her diaper, nor do we have a CNA onboard. This should be interesting... :shock: