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Car battery with jumper cables...

Tachylordyosis (with the junctional Jesus) - Usually a middle-aged to older black female American with a complaint of "lordy, lordy, lordy, lordy, lordy, lordy", occasionally with the interspersed "Jesus" i.e. "lordy, lordy, lordy, lordy, Jesus help me, lordy, lordy" seen this referred to as "lordycardia" as well some more... fastacardia-tachy slowacardia-brady noacardia-asystole residentially impaired-homeless LCSAA-Legs Can't Support Ass Anymore (obese)

Did this to a newbie crew...they drove around for about an hour before they realized what happened. Confucious say... "he who leave ambulance doors unlocked have hanging gurney"

Like snapdragon I get to work both for my company. Here's my 2 cents from my experience: Interfacility: You get guaranteed patient contact and assessment practice. Our system is busy and our interfacility trucks typically run 8-10 transports per 12 hour shift. Even though you are transporting grandma home after her CABG or hip replacement you can still do a full assessment. Most patients are generally stable...but you get to see what stable is and after time you'll notice what's not. Recognizing "big sick from little sick." Running interfacility calls familiarizes one with the city (streets, mapping, hospital locations, etc.) without the stress of code 3 driving. It also gives you practice driving with a patient and partner in the back. We regularly put new intermediates and basics on interfacility trucks just for these reasons. Frequently we get pretty decent calls picking up out of nursing homes for "routine" transports. Calls for "change in mental status...stable per facility" are my favorites. Those are fun because you are the highest level of care and actually get to do the detective work because most nursing facilities are pretty much useless when it comes to giving you accurate reports when you arrive on scene. If I had a dollar for every time I have heard "not my patient...I just starting shift" lol. 911: Lights and sirens is fun and games until you hit someone or are hit. A lot of the time you will drive code 3 across town only to get cancelled by fd or pd upon arrival and never see a patient that call. That doesn't get you any patient contact...and for me that isn't being an EMT. I enjoy learning about medicine and eventually plan to be a medic. I like running 911 calls but as an Intermediate on an ALS truck I'm not going to get to do as much until I'm a medic. The "cool" calls I may get to start an iv or put the patient on the monitor (assuming we beat fd on scene and they haven't done it already) but in the grander scheme of things I get to drive to the hospital on ALS calls. On 911 trucks you will see a greater variety of calls than you would on an interfacility truck...this is what I like to gain knowledge from. You'll get to see the unstable patients you don't see on an interfcaility truck...recognizing "big sick from little sick" again. A lot of times seeing things helps make things you read or learn about in class click. I enjoy working both. What you get out of what you choose depends on what you put into it. If you treat "routine" calls as bs and don't take advantage of assessment practice when it's available...I have no sympathy for you when your medic or fd is yelling at you on scene because you didn't put oxygen on the SOB patient without being told. I was on an interfacility truck yesterday and we did a 30 minute transport across town. The patient and I had a great conversation on the way about family, interests, work, etc. The circumstances behind why she was being transported were very unfortunate and she just needed someone to talk to. Once we got her into her room at the hospital she thanked me for "just being there to listen and to talk to her." I got more satisfaction out of that call than any call I've run lights and sirens down the Las Vegas Strip.

This was actually in Target and not Walmart...my nephew doing his Tin Man from the Wizard of Oz impression

I've actually done these lol! I've also had a blast in the toy aisle...I've set off all the sirens on the fire trucks/ambulances/police cars, set off ANY and ALL toys that talk, and set off a whole end cap of bouncing Tiggers so they would jump off their shelves a row at a time!

There's a Starbuck's here with a drive thru as well...been dying to go through that one too hee hee 8)

:shock: hallo Krankenschwester!

Ich spreche nicht Deutsches, aber diese Webseite, die hin und her übersetzt, kommt in handliches Lachen loud heraus! Ich starb, um herauszufinden, was das Zeichen sagte!

I found this sign posted in the restroom of a sandwich shop I had lunch at between calls yesterday: "please pee sitting"

When I worked 24s in California our substation had a couple restrooms but no showers. If you worked back to back 24s the dispatchers didn't put you in service (or at least *tried* not to lol) until you had a chance to go home and shower in the morning...unless there were multiple calls holding then you were screwed. As far as furniture and kitchen stuff it was all brought in by employees. That particular substation was in a less than pleasant part of town...right next to a 24 hour tow truck yard. I'll never forget the the amber lights of the tow trucks shining through the blinds and someone always banging on their fence yelling, "GIVE ME BACK MY &%$#@! CAR!!!!!" in the middle of the night...and then the soft glow of the red and blue police lights that soon followed. Oh the memories lol.

The uniforms I wore when I worked in California had light blue button up shirts and we looked like gas station attendants lol. :shock:

That's funny right there!

Sundown (played by Clarence Gilyard who was later on Walker Texas Ranger) was Mavericks' first RIO after Goose's death. Maverick's RIO during the last big dogfight was Merlin (Cougar's RIO from the opening sequence and played by Tim Robbins..."Nuke" Laloosh from Bull Durham among other roles). 8)

I wear Focus Night and Days which are designed to be worn for extended periods. I switched to those when I started working 24's so I could sleep with them and so I wouldn't have to fiddle around trying to put lenses in while half awake when a middle of the night call came across lol. After waking up they have a tendency to be a little dry but hit them with rewetting drops and they're fine. Other than that I've had no problems with them. I always keep an extra pair with me when I'm working as well. Theoretically you can wear them 30 days straight but I usually take them out when I go to sleep at home (I work 12's now). Doing this I can get up to 6 weeks out of a pair since I'm not wearing them round the clock.

Whoo hoo!!!!!

Blues Brothers? 8)

LOL! Hellllooooooooooo nurse!!!!!!!!!!!! 8)

I'll never forget the one time I did this for a class of 7 year olds. I asked the group what it said on the front of the ambulance (pointing to the big red AMBULANCE letters on the front). This is what a bunch of the kids shouted out: "AMBUFORDLANCE!!!!!!" The answer I got made me think about for a second, but once I realized why they said it I had to laugh. The units I worked on in California were built by Ford...and the front of the hoods looked like this from the front: AMBU (Ford) LANCE They were reading everything straight across...including the Ford manufacturer's logo. Gotta love kids!

"IT'S NOT A TOOOOOMAH!!!!!!"

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Mmmmmmmmmmmmm...Del Taco. Gotta love 24 hour drive-thru you can fit your ambulance in lol

On more than one occasion here I've seen people tired of waiting in the waiting room leave the hospital, call 911, get transported back to the ER by ambulance thinking they're going to get in faster, get seen by the triage nurse who recognized them and more often than not already triaged them, and get bounced BACK to the waiting room. They don't get seen any faster and now have a bill for their one block ambulance ride. :roll:

Before I got into EMS I was a teacher. Through email and MySpace I've been able to keep in touch with former students. My first classroom assignment (I was a teacher's aide at the time) was in a 2nd Grade class. That group of kids are now JUNIORS in high school and drive cars...talk about putting time in perspective lol! :shock: