Happiness

good luck

I also use vicks, I once told and RCMP officer to do this and he said while in cop school he was told not to. The reason was that you will start to associate the vicks with death etc. and if you have small children and they are sick wearing vicks it will bring up those associations.

Years ago that happened here, there was a 80 yr old that ate some brownies that were in her daughters freezer........

OMG I have just realized ..... I AM A LESBIAN !

Thanks AK

You wish you were a lesbian

Halarious

Thanks AK for answering my question in such depth. So I guess I worded my question wrong I shouldn't have put bad in the sentence, it should have read "did something happen to you". You do have a religious back ground and by the sounds of it a very intellectual one at that. And thank you for not becomming a evangalist as I dont think I could see you flinging a light saber around up on stage .

I personally luv Penn and Teller, they just make me laugh. I saw Penn not long ago on a night show promoting his new book about athiesm. That shows discussion reminds me of the one with Ruff and AK. At one point Penn said "If its ok for you to belive, then its ok for me to not"

Faith is personal thing, and I think everyone has it, but my faith is not always yours and thats what people have to understand.

now wouldn't this be great.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44344116/ns/health-cancer/

Good topic for sure, it makes you think. I am allowed to use my skills as PCP even if I am doing a First aider position like at the county fair I wouldn't go down to the level of Red Cross (which I have for work). And here we do this with our Ambulance so in therory Im not going to come across this as I have a ventolin protocol and can use it. Now if I'm off on Vacation and this happened Im pretty sure that the pt will be getting someone elses puffer (as long as it is the same) as these people can go down fast and furrious. If I did nothing and they died then not only would I feel bad but Im pretty sure I could be sued to some extent

Really in the states the only thing you can give is O2 and epi without Dr's orders. How can that be if you have the training for things like Ventolin etc. It amazes me that in the states if you help someone and it goes wrong you can be sued but if you stand there and watch someone die you cant.

AK I have a question for you Were you brought up with a certain religion as a child. You remind me of one of my best friends that was raised JW, raised her kids as JW until as she calls it she saw the light (that light was her going unconsious as her JW ex-husband was choking the life out of her) She is now a devout atheist and sometimes she is just mean about it. I have found that people that are that strong in being an atheist have had a traumatic experience. With me it was a priest telling me never to enter his church again as I was a product of the Devil.(all I did was faint while in the choir). I am a fence sitter on this subject but would like to think that there is something after death.

I go to church 2 time a year and if our priest asks me to go I will. I go to weddings and to funerals so I guess in the most part I hope Im going somewhere but who knows.

Ruff I have a question for you also. If you believe in Adam and Eve were the creators of us all, did we all come from incest. I did ask a religious person and was told, oh the bible talks of there being others? Just wanted to know your thoughts on that.

Sorry to hear of your loss Kaisu, I ditto Tniuqs......................

All of my sons are the same. They eventually grew in the pit hair at about 17.

I agree that if it is worrisome to you then you should have a dr. check him out

good luck with puberty

Same place, I remember going into chat and there would be Terri, aussiphil, scotty, dustbunny, and the drama queens, the internet stalking and AK there to figure out the fakes. We had alot of fun (thanks scotty). Then there were the paragods that would come in and tell you, you were an idiot and then came squint who atleast gave you the chance to learn and then called you an idiot lmao.

Still like being here and seeing people get crotchities knickers in a knot, and dwyane with his sense of humor and what I like the best is "they have all stopped checking my gramar and spelling"

think its been 6 years for me now

Nope cant say that I do we are EMR and PCP up this way.

Im up on Haida Gwaii, The islands just above Vancouver island. Richmond is nice.

What part of BC did you go to? And welcome to BC. Might see you sometime

Nope. A woman's eggs have been in existence since she was in utero and have been exposed to the elements, figuratively speaking, for 40+ years. A man create new sperm everyday and they have a short shelf life. Those that have begun to breakdown than manage to make their way into a woman will not make it to the egg. It's survival of the fitest.

Well that figures. Okay but if the man is older and his sperm making equipment is older wouldnt the sperm be effected ?

Again Im a news junky , I found this artical and found it interesting enough to share. It also beggs to question the fact if a woman is over the age of 40 they are asked to have an amniocentesis because of possible birth defects, so if it true a womans age is a factor would it also not be true for a mans sperm?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44329025/ns/health-childrens_health/

what an Uff-da this is! :-)

Two Minnesota mechanical engineers were standing at the base of a

flagpole, looking up. A woman walks by and asks what they were doing.

"Ve're supposed to find da height of da flagpole," said Sven, "but

ve don't haff a ladder."

The woman took a wrench from her purse, loosened a few bolts, and laid the pole down. Then she took a tape measure from her pocketbook, took a measurement, announced, "Eighteen feet, six inches," and walked away.

Ole shook his head and laughed. "Ain't dat just like a voman! Ve ask for da height and she gives us da length!"

Sven and Ole are currently serving in the United States Senate!

WOW is all I can say................

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44324012/ns/us_news-life/

WOW AK you read my mind

Surprising enough even though we live on the ocean we dont have alot of water rescue or drownings. Most of us are very aware of undercurrents and tides and teach our children where they can and can not swim.

2 quick stories though

2 town alcoholics were sitting on the Government dock drink Vodka. There is a bit left and the one holding it say's its his, the other grabs it and throws it into the ocean and say ok then go get it. He did, and this guy couldn't swim, had polio as a child and was pissed. Lucky for him there was a bystander that jumped in and got him. Personally knowing the tide etc I would not have and the ocean is very cold.

We have a slough here that is just a big mud pot when the tide is out. A silly boy decided that he was going to try and cross it, (instead of the bridge that was built for that purpose) Half way through he got stuck to his waist and started to cry for help as now the tide is starting to come in. We only had the ff at the time and they tried everything they could think of to get him out with out causeing damage. It came to a point that they had dive teams there ready with tanks incase it became that dier. They manage finally to be able to get a winch and with a dog harness pulled him out. He was still bruised up but not dead. I also do not go and play in the mud.

I had made the choice early in my career that I am not rescue, I am the one after rescue and I have always made sure that my scene is as safe as possible, if there is any question I dont go in. I do this because yes I want to go home to my family and also I know what they do to people in the back of the ambulance and I don't want to become a patient while on a call.

I dont know if it is to late but my boss who has horrible arthritis has started the gold shots. They have taken the pain away about 80% along with ibprophin. Hip replacements these days are easy than before and from what I understand you are up and at em in a few days.

Good luck

http://www.thegrio.com/news/is-the-cherokee-nation-cutting-off-its-black-roots.php

This is an interesting event. Lona ago in Canada when a native woman married a white guy the lost their rights (They have since been returned) but if a native man married a white girl she got all the native rights (which has since stopped). These white women that have gained these rights still to this day have their rights but the new wives do not recieve status. In order to become a status Indian in Canada you need to be at the least 1/4 blood and prove your ancestory and in Alaska (tlingit/haida) you only need to be 1/8 blood to recieve status.

Personally I dont think they should just kick out people that have been a part of their nation but so much time has gone by most of these black desendents probably have enough Cherokee in their blood to be recognised. If they dont want further Blacks into the system then they should start it now.

Any other thoughts

Thanks happiness, for your post Your welcome, but now you have learned something you will never forget In reality this will always be in the back of my mind but it wont stop me from still using my equipment for its indended use and if you look I still followed my protocol and I didnt just jump into giving him Narcan. As to those who question my talent Maybe if you use words like experience instead of talen you may get better responeses, that you see as impossible Its your attitude thats impossible, let me ask you this ? If I had been in construction for 25 years, and during those years I worked in all sides of the field, residential, commercial, industrial. If I had built everything from dog houses to skyscrapers in those 25 years, do you think I might know more than the apprentice who is just starting out I have seen alot of shady construction from those with 25 yrs of experience, just because you have been doing something for a long time doesn't make you good at it. If I worked in the day when I had to build my own roof trusses versus having them premade and delivered on a truck, do you think I might know more than the guy who uses the prebuilt trusses Nope the guy using prebuilt is saving time and there fore saving money,. If I had to cut all of my wood with a handsaw instead of a machine, and if I actually hung the sheet rock instead of subbing it out, would I know more than today's rookie builder ? No they just a different way of doing it, and different isn't wrong.

The same is true for me, I have been in this 25 years, I have worked rural and urban 911, private services, critical care transport, and worked in several emergency rooms (one of which was a trauma center). In the first ER i worked in, we had to call the doctor in from home. I was working when there was no glucometers, pule-oxs, 12 Lead, capnography, IV pumps or even dial-a-flows. I am not smarter than anyone in the room, I have just seen alot more, and like happiness just showed us, I learned from my mistakes. I didnt make any mistakes and if you learned from yours Crotch you would stop trying make us think you are always right and quit trying to prove us all wrong. I will agree there are a few comments that you have made through out the years that make sense but you always have to cross that line that makes you look like you might be intelligent to the other side of us just thinking your an ass.

In the future, when I share wisdom How about you present your wisdom with a better attitude, I hope it will be greeted more positively It would be if it was presented that way, as I am only trying to keep you from making mistakes Well quit trying to do that we all make mistakes and your mistake is not nessassarily going to be mine. If you do not appreciate the wisdom then just turn away And if you dont have anything constructive to say and just want to stir the pot then you also can just turn away, there is no reason for all this vitreous language and name calling Fair enough but there is also no reason for all of your racist remarks because we dont agree with you. I am not a racist just like the others here and not everything here is to repress the black guy that posts here. Thank you Your welcome. Let's be adults Remember that statement includes you.

So you know Crotch I didnt post this to prove your point in any way. I wanted to share something that pertained to this thread. Also until you post with the attitude that you are not above us, you will always get the same responses, so learn from your mistakes as you have stated you have the ability to learn from them.

One of the problems we have had here is that getting a Dr's app. Honestly you could wait for months (I have). Comming through emergency was a way to by pass that so we would get called. What our hospital did to help correct this was, in the morning (you have to call around 8 am) you call and ask to see the Dr. on call. The days that the on-call doc is on the appointments are kept open so you can get in that day, and if not you call the next day.

As for the frequent flyiers, I know we get tired of them but there is going to be one day that they really do have an emergency and you will be caught of guard. I have a flyer and one day he was unresponsive and drunk. I did notice this time he was a bit more out of it than normal. I didnt really think he was more than drunk as all vitals were good. They did a 12 lead on him and he has a left sided bundle with bunny ears (which really dosnt mean alot as I dont read the strips) but now I will look at him alittle different.

Also with the ones that just call use them as practice. Give them a good look over pretend your back in school doing your final test and after think about what you missed. I do