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From any citizen when finally able to grab food or drink. Q: Quiet night? A: Well...since i'm in here getting food / drink it's apparent i'm not busy at the moment. Thanks for jinxing my night though.

A young woman was pulled over in Nashville, Tennessee for speeding. As the Tennessee State Trooper walked to her car window, flipping open his ticket book, she said, "I bet you are going to sell me a ticket to the Tennessee State Police Ball." He replied, "Tennessee State Troopers don't have balls." There was a moment of silence while she smiled and he realized what he'd just said. He then closed his book, got back in his patrol car and left.

Most commercials don't use real cheese or ketchup or other condiments. It's all fake, made to look good. Ice cream in commercials is frequently butter or wax.

I just took over the position and it's been busy getting everything set up the way I want it. I am going to be trying to get a paypal account set up for payment.

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Our local shirts: Paramedics....Because firefighters need hero's too.

Lights and sirens to an assisted living home. Dispatched as a shortness of breath. O/A ~80 yr old female standing outside on the sidewalk smoking. Chief complaint: I'm about to run out of smokes. Shows almost empty pack of smokes as proof of this. Wants us to either take her to the store and back or we just go and bring them back for her (store is almost directly across the street). My partner not so nicely explained that you can't call 911 for this reason.

ok, I'll add my major one. Background: Our service uses a two person BLS crew and an ALS medic on a first response vehicle (usually an SUV), and fire is tiered to all unconscious, VSA, and seizure calls. If the ALS medic needs to attend the patient one of the BLS medics will drive the SUV to the hospital. Went to a call for a seizure, that happened to occur in a factory. We are suppose to wear helmets for any industrial setting, the ALS medic got there seconds before us (no helmet), I asked my partner and he said don't worry about it (as we pass a big sign that says wear your helmet). We go inside and a guy had a seizure while standing over this large bin, the ALS medic asks me to go and grab the backboard and straps. So I grab a firefighter and off we go back to the vehicle. By the time we got back to the patient, he was awake and was going to climb out of the bin (c-spine ruled out). The ALS medic or my partner (I don't remember) asked me to just get the stretcher ready and to forget about the backboard. I don't remember who was carrying the backboard, but it got leaned against another large bin. So I lower the stretcher by myself and start to get the sheets ready while everyone else is watching the patient climb out of this bin (3 firefighters, 1 chief, my partner, ALS medic and about 3-4 workers). So I flick the sheets open and the backboard falls (no one near it) and smacks me in the right temple then clatters to the ground. No one saw it happen so everyone turns around, and I'm just standing there partially stunned. My partner (or the ALS medic - don't remember) ask me if that hit me, I think I was able to mumble something about yes it hit me but I was ok. So we load up the patient and *I* drive the ambulance to the hospital, all the while thinking that I should hold my foot a certain way so that if I pass out I wouldn't be pressing on the gas. In hindsight, this was probably not a good idea... We get to the hospital and I have a killer headache, so call the supervisor and he's unreachable, so I had to explain to dispatch why I couldn't work anymore (and they and I are laughing) and they got a hold of the supervisor for me. Do the doctor thing, told no more working for that night. The doctor said to just have someone make sure I woke up easily the next morning. Did I mention that this happened on Dec 30th 2004? The supervisor drove me home, luckily my mom was staying with me cuz of the holidays. The next morning I wake up with a very very bad headache, I can hear my mom on the phone with my dad and ask her to grab me an ice pack. As she was coming up the stairs to hand it to me, I felt woozy then next thing I remember is my mom saying "Dear, dear, I have to go I have to call 911". I wake up and I'm lying on the floor about 4 feet from where I was standing. My mom asked me if I still wanted her to call. So she calls...panicking, and I'm trying to tell her what to say. I spent 7 hours in emerg under observation, CT Scan came back negative and I was discharged with instructions to not drive for 7 days, and to F/U in 7 days. I don't really remember anything about new year's eve or new year's day that year. I got in trouble with my management for not wearing my helmet. I argued that it wasn't a piece of machinery that hit me it was my own equipment, and it could have happened anywhere including in someones house. No go, still got a note to file. Lesson learned - Wear helmet.

I am assuming it's an RPN because of the nursing home that it happened at. They have maybe 1-2 RN's per shift and the RN is normally not around when we are there and it's the RPN who is standing there trying to give us some history (usually preceded or followed by "but i don't know they aren't my patient".)

Not me that was involved...heard it through the grapevine yesterday. Seems to have a better effect if read out loud. Crew while on an emerg call had this conversation with (I'm assuming) an RPN: RPN: (while giving history) "Now why would they write that the patient has roadside assistance on her chart?" Crew: "huh?, what do you mean?" RPM: "Yeah, it says right here that she has triple A." LOL....The medic telling this story swears that it happened.

Ok, not really said on a specific call. I have no idea where I got it from but I know I've said it a few times and I'm sure it sound's retarded. Seeing a new baby, and trying to comment on the age / cuteness etc... (Did I mention that I'm not great with kids) Me: Wow, they look fresh... :?

A guy that I work with "reads" the policy and procedure manual...then if the supervisor walks in, just says something like wow this is dry stuff but it's good to keep up to date on it or something like that.

Dispatch: 5430 proceed priority 4 (our lights and siren) to 123 somewhere st for a 40 year old female complaining of shortness of breath, be advised patient is also complaining of pain to one of her tooth. - Had me giggling as we were going up the stairs. Turns out the patients only problem is a broken tooth that's been broken for TWO MONTHS. Not my call --> Dispatch: 5421 proceed priority 4 to 321 whatever st for a 90 year old, unconscious. 5421 10-4 Dispatch: 5421 Be advised patient VSA, CPR in progress..

I do the ask a question and don't listen for an answer quite often, so don't feel bad. Just have to remember to listen..ugh.. Ok..my shining moment: Called for severe abdo pain...(what's new) Get on scene, patient sitting on a kitchen chair holding his left side/back. I immediately think of kidneys and kidney stones. While I'm doing my assessment my partner is talking to the family with me interjecting questions when one comes up. Daughter tells us patient had something wrong with his spleen in the recent past. I only catch part of that and for some reason thought that they were talking about the kidneys (but were calling them the spleen!?!...I know doesn't make sense but it did then) So trying to ascertain if that could be the problem today. Brilliant me: "Was that the right or left spleen?" My partner and the daughter just looked at me strangely. So I realize what I said and tried to explain. Now this is were who your partner is makes a difference. The guy I was working with instead of being supportive made me feel even worse.. Btw..did I mention that the daughter was a home care RN?