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Any marriage takes work. To me it's about understanding, respect and cooperation. Sure some professions do have a profound effect on the marriage, it's all in how each one chooses to deal with it and work with it or around it. I am still working at this marriage, and we have been at it for 36 years, EMS or no EMS.

The thing is he probably just got caught doing what every other politician does. :twisted:

This happened nearly a 80 years ago in my family. My Granddad was a barber and where they lived they laid the body out at home, and buried them the next day or so, the local barber was called in to shave the person and make him presentable to lay out. Well my granddad was notified of a death of this old boy. He took his apprentice with him to go shave and get the man presentable. In those days they just sat on the bed or straddled the body to shave them. Granddad asked his apprentice to shave him while he got the suit ready. As the guy climbed on the bed, gas escaped from the stomach and the body belched, scared the apprentice so bad he jumped off the bed and out thru the window, they never saw him again.

Milk works better than water and don't light a match

WIFE: > What would you do if I died? Would you get married again? > > HUSBAND: > > Definitely not! > > WIFE: > > Why not - don't you like being married? > > HUSBAND: > > Of course I do. > > WIFE: > > Then why wouldn't you remarry? > > HUSBAND: > > Okay, I'd get married again. > > WIFE: > > You would? (With a hurtful look on her face). > > HUSBAND: > > (Makes audible groan). > > WIFE: > > Would you live in our house? > > HUSBAND: > > Sure, it's a great house. > > WIFE: > > Would you sleep with her in our bed? > > HUSBAND: > > Where else would we sleep? > > WIFE: > > Would you let her drive my car? > > HUSBAND: > > Probably, it is almost new. > > WIFE: > > Would you replace my pictures with hers? > > HUSBAND: > > That would seem like the proper thing to do. > > WIFE: > > Would she use my golf clubs? > > HUSBAND: > > No, she's left-handed. > > WIFE: > - silence - - > > HUSBAND: > F * ck...

I'd vote for ya. You don't mince words and shoot straight from the hip. Blatenly honest and blunt.

Ours is on order, and being paid for by some funding via EMS here. I know they will help to some degree, so does the reflective stuff on the bunker gear the firefighters wear, but there are some crack pot drivers out there who cannot see those big red and white fire engines and red and white ambulances with their lights going, so how are they going to see people in relfective vests trying their best to stay alive? That reminds me of an accident on the interstate where we had the highway shut down and some joker decided to pass on the shoulder of the hammer lane and drove into the arse end of an ambulance. His claim in court was that we were not visible enough! Three ambulances, three firetrucks, a sheriff's vehicle and two highway patrolmen and a helicopter and a line of traffic is was not visible enough to him, in daylight. Didn't fly with the judge either.

I don't see how the FD allowed him to do anything. It was secured just like every other fire engine in a firehouse that is not manned. They lock doors just like we do. He broke in thru a back door and stole the vehicle. So if someone steals my car from my garage which is locked and they broke in I am at least half responsible for allowing someone to break in and steal my vehicle without my persmission?

We just had such an incident, and driver said she was ok, paramedic checked her out and she refused, stated she was fine and wanted to continue on to her destination. Refusal explained, twice, signed by driver, witness: paramedic and deputy Sheriff who also explained refusal to her. Whenever we have a refusal of treatment or whatever, and its an accident, we have the deputy or highway patrol do the witnessing.

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Here in Iowa we can claim the deer we hit for our own use. Just have to report it to the local law enforcement. In the dead of winter if a deer is hit on the highway and not too badly turned into smear of deer, the state, county, or local law enforcement contact folks they have on a list as willing to take road kill, some of these folks are really destiute.

Better to hit the deer then swerve, then you have evidence for the insurance company and the local law enforcement. We hit a deer on the way home from a call and members of our unit went back and got said deer and processed it.

I do not know about where you live, but where I live volunteers are held accountable for all our actions or lack there of. Increased educational requirements for us are a necessary part of what we do, they do serve a purpose and we take it very seriously when it comes to patient care. After all the patient is our top priority and we do take that extremely seriously from the time the call is made till we hand the patient over to the hospital.

Ah Sh**

This topic brings to mind the exact scenario that happened in our area Sunday night. Bear with me please. We do not do water rescue or recovery, we call in the experts. There are four search/rescue/recovery dive teams within 60 + miles of where we are located. We have had meetings and training with these dive teams as to what they want us to do and not do prior to their arrival etc. Sunday night at a nearby borrow pit/ pond that is about 40 feet deep, and slopes gently away from the bank about 20 yards then takes a sharp drop down to the bottom. A young man age 16 who did not swim very well was out in the water early evening. The skies had been darkening for some time and swimmers continued in the water, a storm blew up and this young man got in an area where it sloped down and he panicked, he was seen one second and gone the next. Friends and family searched for ten minutes before they called 911. We arrived in a wind and rain storm from hell only to find people out in the water trying to search. Not good. We had dive teams on the way immediately. Problem was because of the storm and reported tornado on the ground not far from out location the weather caused delays in their deployment. We did as we were trained to do, secured the area, got the family and friends isolated from onlookers, and available for the dive teams to interview, as to where and when he was last scene etc. We knew what we had and we also knew it was going to be a long night for all involved. There were about 60 personnel in all on scene. He was found in 21 feet of water 4 hours after disappearance he was just a couple months shy of his 17th birthday. Now knowing what we were supposed to do, and most of us did that, we had a few individuals who went out into the water to search up to chest deep and in lightening and high winds and rain. Idiots. These same individuals were not at these training sessions and that is the first thing we were told, DON'T GO IN THE WATER TO SEARCH, it stirs things up and there is already one body in the water they do not need more, leave the search to the experts. It was really one of the hardest calls we ever had. I was with the family the whole time, keeping them posted etc. and I was with the family and friends when they recovered the body and were informed of his death. They knew he had drowned, it was just our Medics and Doctor confirming this for the family. They were also told in the beginning what would be done after they recovered the body, to make an attempt at rescussication, unfortunately he was down too long and the water was too warm. If you don't have the training and expertise, stand back and let the experts do it. You can take care of the patient afterwards, and don't put yourself in danger, your no good to anyone injured or dead.

My crocs are solid, no holes in them, although they are open on the heel with a strap to use if needed. I love them. I am on my feet for 8 hours a day and they are the only things that I can wear that I can still walk when I get off work and drive home, after having tried every brand of work shoe, athletic shoe, you name it, my feet would hurt so bad that I could hardly get out of the car when I got home. Now they don't.

We transport all the time when a person passes away, it would not cross our minds to take the body back to the home. If we are call because the person passed away, we, all of the crew waits with the family until the funeral home or the coroner arrives. Ours is a rural community and we know most everyone, so being there with the family is comfort measures. Things are a little easier now then years back. People are allowed to pass at home. Years ago we had an elderly woman who passed away at home, we knew it, so did her sister, but we were unable to pronounce death, so we put a b p cuff on her and a nasal canula and transported her to the hospital where the Dr. did the necessary. It saved the family from waiting hours for the coroner to show up. I think the crew needs a lesson in compassion.

Shakes head :roll: You can't fix stupid :!:

As Scaramedic said practice on family members, and anyone you can. Practice till it becomes second nature to you.

I wear my seatbelt in any vehicle I get into, it's a habit with me. The thought of bouncing around in the box of the ambulance does not appeal to me one bit.

We have the same policy. New Hires are told right up front, its the very first thing on the list of items they must read and sign. Allowances are made, sickness and hospitalization, sudden death of a family member and so forth, all documented and verifiable. We have had it tested time and again. We had one person who was a no call no show and no one could contact her at all. She showed up for work a week and half later and could not understand why she was terminated and replaced!

The families of all the victims will be in my prayers. It's just too too sad.

Now that sounds like a pretty nifty gift. I could make good use of that :twisted:

Most of the arses we run into are Highway Patrolmen, newbies fresh from the academy. They hate it when we ignore them or tell them that its our scene and when we are done we will release the scene to them. They soon learn. But we have never had a problem with one like in the video.

It seems that part of my post was lost when I lost phone service in the middle of submitting the post, some idiot cut a fibre optic phone line and we finally just about two hours ago got phone service back. I was going to add and or ask where did you observe, listen etc the Subcutaneous emphysema. I also was going to ask what was the complaint of the patient and what led yout to find the Subcutaneous emphysema?