Gypsy

On my lunch break and when I get home. OH and weekends when I'm not out with my friend Arrielle causing trouble. hehe. 0:)

Also, for male enjoyment only, rent the Wrestler, and see Marissa Tormei nude ---- NICE.

And why would that be only for the males?

At home sadly. I'm down with a cold. Though it means I can work on my website and get it ready for launching on the 27th... maybe... lmao

Sadly I don't know how to make the strip show up here so here's the link. This is to a webcomic that my husband sometimes reads and he saw this one and thought of us. Just wanted to share it.

http://www.partiallyclips.com/pclipslite.php?id=1395

I called Mamma Char last night and told her what was being said on here. She wishes to thank everyone for supporting him and she will be calling his office today as soon as she wakes up to let him know that not everyone in this world hates him.

I'll call mom tomorrow and tell her to pass on your words of support. Trust me he needs it. From how I understand it damn near everyone is against him for doing this. This has been a rather long battle and I was waiting for it to hit the news. I'm almost glad it has maybe it will help his fight.

Edit: yes I call my mother in law my mom.

My mother in law is very good friends with the medical director. I"ll let him know you guys agree with him he'll be glad to hear that. Trust me.

ya Lone is right. From what I saw and heard from others the test ranges from about 60 questions to about 200. Unless you are completely bombing the test you actually want a lower number. Of my classmates those of us that were stopped around 70 passed. A few were taken up to alittle over 180 and they failed.

This is not a sure fire why to see if you passed/failed the test but it does give a good level of personal confort.

The best advice I can give you is take your time and read everything. Read all the answers even if your sure the first one you read is right. I know on my test I couldn't go back to fix an answer and there's a couple that I answered alittle too fast and realized it right after I clicked, "next".

ACK Ok this has bugged me all day. I made a mistake. It isn't cinnimon that's dangerious but nutmeg.

Downfall is that stuff can be expensive... like $4 for a small bottle.

Go to Camdon Grey.com. They have really good stuff for "cheap". You know for how cheap an EO can be.

Vodka on jelly fish stings. It said it helps take away the pain and heals faster.

Home made ice pack. You guys ready for this one? You take 2 freezer bags. Fill one with 1 bottle of rubbing alcohol and 3 cups water. The alcohol keeps it from freezing solid. These packs get COLD. I mean if you are stupid and don't put a *thick* wash cloth between it and your skin you will get frostbite. Who can guess how I know that one?

This isn't so much a remedy but an oops moment: Making your own crushed cinnimon from scratch. If you get any of the nut mixed into it you have a natural version of a stree drug. Oddly enough. That same shell ( called Maze) if you crush it and make it into a spray is sold on the market as: Mase.

Another good one for headaches is grape seed extract. Great for topical use only. If ingested it can make the personal violetely ill.

I'm looking for my list of spontanious abortion herbs and oils. Those can be dangerious because you have no control and can cause massive amounts of blood loss.

Ok as someone who's family does practice naturalpathy... Do you want ones that from "modern" history or can I go into my period text books for apothacary? :: cracks fingers, pulls out the white cloth gloves and very old books::

ps Is Your MOM HOT ?

LMAO Ok I'll go ahead and answer that. Go look at my picture and you will see her. We're identical. She only has a few more wrinkles since she's older than me by 20 years. My husband can valadate this fact. It's very scary.

Ok I'm actually going to answer this from a massage therapist point of view not from an EMT. Please note my mother was a LMT for many years only allowing her certs to expire this last year. This is actually her post more than mine.

Back braces are actually one of the worst things a person can use and wear. They take over the job of your back muscels causing them to atrophy. They don't get stronger because they don't need to. Which in turn causes more back problems, pain, and injury rather than less. Great for my job security but poor for their over all health. Medical professionals are taught how to lift things correctly and for the most part follow their training. This means they backs are stronger as are their legs and arms. They also tend to give their bodies more TLC by going to massage therapists or even chiropractors. (That I have personally witnessed.) The average person in a store might get a 30 minute lecture to which they totally ignore. While we get months of training and continuing training over the years about how body mechanics work.

In short we don't use them because we treat our bodies better.

~ Martina Gypsy's mom.

I love my mom.

I believe it's a staff member, in the kitchen of the preschool. If it were a child, they would be required to have an emergency care/contact permission sheet. i.e. in an emergency, the facility could initiate treatment, and send the pt. away in an ambulance, without the child's legal guardian being present. This would be filled out by the parent/etc, prior to the child attending school. At least that's how schools work around here.

Here we would have one person calling parents while the other calls 911 if this was a child. This was a teacher who also works in the kitchen.

Happy July 4th!

*shrugs* oh well, little boys all over are rejoicing.

Ya hubby and I both had the same thought.

Are you suggesting that I misinterpreted that statement?

Yes actually. It's just a joke email that I got. Meaning like most chain emails it's not true. So just relax, read, chuckle, and enjoy.

Got this in an email this morning and figured we could all use to start our day/night with a laugh.

WHO'S FUNNIER: TEACHERS OR COPS ? Teachers

These are actual comments made on student report cards by teachers in the New York City public school system. All teachers were reprimanded but, some of these are really funny!

1. Since my last report, your child has reached rock bottom and has started to dig.

2. I would not allow this student to breed.

3. Your child has delusions of adequacy.

4. Your son is depriving a village somewhere of an idiot.

5. Your son sets low personal standards and then consistently fails to achieve them.

6. The student has a 'full six-pack' but lacks the plastic thingie to hold it all together.

7. This child has been working with glue too much.

8. When your daughter's IQ reaches 50, she should sell.

9. The gates are down, the lights are flashing, but the train isn't coming.

10. If this student were any more stupid, he'd have to be watered twice a week.

11. It's impossible to believe the sperm that created this child beat out 1,000,000 others

12. The wheel is turning but the hamster is definitely dead.

COPS:

These 16 Police Comments were taken off actual police car videos around the country. Thank goodness, in spite of the perils of the job, they still have a sense of humor!

16. 'You know, stop lights don't come any redder than the one you just went through.'

15. 'Relax, the handcuffs are tight because they're new. They'll stretch after you wear them a while..'

14. 'If you take your hands off the car, I'll make your birth certificate a worthless document.'

13. 'If you run, you'll only go to jail tired.'

12. 'Can you run faster than 1200 feet per second? Because that's the speed of the bullet that'll be chasing you.'

11. 'You don't kno w how fast you were going? I guess that means I can write anything I want to on the ticket, huh?'

10. 'Yes, sir, you can talk to the shift supervisor, but I don't think it will help. Oh, did I mention that I'm the shift supervisor?'

9. 'Warning! You want a warning? O.K, I'm warning you not to do that again or I'll give you another ticket.'

8. 'The answer to this last question will determine whether you are drunk or not.. Was Mickey Mouse a cat or a dog?'

7. 'Fair? You want me to be fair? Listen, fair is a place where you go to ride on rides, eat cotton candy and corn dogs and step in monkey shit.'

6. 'Yeah, we have a quota. Two more tickets and my wife gets a toaster oven.'

5. 'In God we trust, all others we run through NCIC.'

4. 'How big were those 'two beers' you say you had?'

3. 'No sir, we don't have quotas anymore. We used to, but now we're allowed to write as many tickets as we can.'

2. 'I'm glad to hear that the Chief (of Police) is a personal friend of yours. So you know someone who can post your bail..'

AND THE WINNER IS....

1.

'You didn't think we give pretty women tickets? You're right, we don't. Sign here.

My bad, Gypsy.

LEO=Law Enforcement Officer

The alphabet soup is so we don't get caught around local names, like "Police Officer", "Sheriff's Deputy", "Trooper", "Statie" (a state police officer,which I observe seems to be used in Massachusetts a lot), "Security Officer", "Special Officer", "Constable", "Smokey The Bear", or others I am currently unfamiliar with.

Yay my spazed out brain was close to figuring out the letters. :: does a goofy happy dance:: I was thinking something for police but wasn't sure.

Blue for the LEOs, Red for FD.

Is there a color for EMS? If there is, I have not been so informed.

What is LEO? I'm still learning the alphabet soup sorry.

Where's the listing for "other"? :: pouts::

I ride a bicycle into work rain or shine.

Brett: WHat no black sticker with what is it the red line? or it is blue? I can never remember which is police and which is fire.

Nope my bestfriend DJ GothyMurder is skinny. I mean like, "Girl go get a whopper" skinny. She does online radio and no I don't have the link off hand.

That is adorable... I have 3 daughters and there's nothing cuter than seeing them pretend to be grown... Or even when they're not pretending to be grown, they just happen to say things that make them seem so grown up... Besides that those kids in your class know more than some people actually in this field!!!

I'm really proud with how much that group learned. They still play ambulance and we're working on getting one them to a firestation to climb around on the fire rescue truck.

I'm going to publicly appologize. I accidentally took my stress and emotions out on the people here. I am sorry.

Fire I'm sorry to you most of all because it was to your post I replied. You know I"m not like that normally.

Even if you are a basic, it's always a good idea to hear what others have to say in a more advanced manor or care. It's a great way to learn and better understand your patient, even if you can't perform most of what is being said. This way, you will know what to look for and what to ask your patients prior to ALS getting there.

Also, all medics were basics first. BLS always comes before ALS. We all perform and ask the most basic of questions and skills before opening the bag of goodies. In this case, the basics were covered. I suggest listening to what people have to say in more advanced settings. If you do not understand, just ask. EMS is a learning experience for everyone.

I do read but how can I explain it..... I feel like a 3 year old trying to keep up to their parents who are walking fast? Does that make any sense? I try to keep up but I'm just not that fast yet. I do ask some questions in the chat room but at times feel like a real idiot when I do because I feel like I should know it already you know?