Shamanwolf

Had medic friend who ran a call where a pt said the doc told him he suffered from pseudoseizures because of his methadone.

That was AWE-SOME...!!

Waiting to hear back from county...it's SO frustrating..I just discovered that in the process of trying to do my NREMT recertification, that my last training officer did not enter everyone's hours..including mine..leaving me needing 36hrs before March 31st. So, I've been working with my current training officer who found me the Tactical Casualty Care Course, which is good for 16hrs..talk about busting my ass last minute..that last TO refuses to field any calls from our new TO.. Thereby attempting to negate responsibility..it's costing me $250.. I would loved to have eventually taken the course, but to keep my certs it came out of my rent. Lesson learned. KEEP CLOSE TRACK OF YOUR IST AND CE HOURS...!!!!

You get a cast iron pot with crusty grits left over from breakfast thanksgiving morning... **puts in quarter...

Yep..tried to lick my elbow...lol...

That's funnier than having snakes in her belly.. like one of mine did recently. Dispatch has become fond of sending me to get psych pts lately..I get joked on about it..because I've learned that I've been requested by the sending facilities. Apparently I'm good with alot of these pts.. normally combative pts seem to behave better when I'm there. Other patches haven't been as lucky. Punched, bitten, spit on, grabbed, punched. . I just tell'em, "Takes one to know one..."

Omg... that sounds so much like the bs we get. Only we just don't chew up dispatch over it. We realize we just make the owners of our service rich. But... 1) It's our job. 2) We will NOT endanger the crew or the pt by performing unsafe lifts, especially not one with contact precautions. 3) Overtime is nice, and since the introduction of the ACA, has become very rare. 4) We will complain amongst ourselves. Dispatch can make life hell. So pony up..lol..

When I first started we were on 19hr rotating shifts. I would stay up, having come from my other full time job of 50+ hours a week..I was totally exhausted, but terrified that I'd sleep too deeply and right through a dispatched call. Here I am, 3 years later, and will now go to sleep at the drop of a hat..my new partner is the same way..I'm trying to tell her otherwise, but to no avail. Ive learned so much in the past three years.. like I didn't know nearly as much as I thought I did, and still have tons to learn. I try to pick up whatever I can now and apply it. It's made me a better EMT.

There are some who's horns hold up our halos..

One cold morning, my unit wouldn't start. So I asked our wheelchair van driver, who, mind you was parked, (in the opposite direction) the next spot over with the engine running, for a jump off. His reply was," It's cold out there, can you turn it around so I don't have to?" I said no and he started getting pissy.. only to really get mad at me when the other patches started cackling hysterically at his stupidity. He only had to back it up 4 feet. Then a few days later he locked hisself and a w/c pt out of the van. 20 miles away. I had come in early to catch up on paperwork. So the supervisor called and asked me if l and my partner would go rescue him. "Sure, no problem." We left quickly over concern for the poor pt. Wine got there and sure enough the DRIVER's SIDE was locked. But not the passenger side. I was laughing so hard it nearly made me have a syncopal episode.. He still won't talk to me.. I couldn't NOT share this..!!