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faithellen) wrote2006-04-01 02:52 pm
faithellen) wrote2006-04-01 02:52 pm
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I'm lying on the porch, listening to Billy Joel, and being dozy near a dozy dog. It's lovely.
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whizzrjohn, you're right -- they switched stuff out, because "Say Goodbye To Hollywood" for SURE isn't the version I remember from the old CDs. Han shot first, dammit.)
We had ambulance duty last night. Dana got home from a clinical shift at the hospital and changed, and we headed over early. No sooner had we marked the unit up and we were sent out to a pedestrian struck by a car. Turns out the man's wife had run over his foot, he fell over, and she drove over him again and stopped with the tires on his legs. Jerry Springer is alive and well in our little county, I guess. We headed back to the squad to pick up the rest of our crews, went to dinner and no sooner had our salads come out when I was sent out again. (Dana got to eat his dinner. And then go for dessert.) We headed out to help another one of our crews at a minivan that had been rear-ended -- 2 adult patients and one child patient, all with neck/back pain. We used many collars, KEDs, long boards, spiders and headblocks packaging them, and got them all extricated well and safely off the hospital. I have to say that ALL of the patients were pleasant and drama-free; sadly, the hospital staff was less nice to deal with.
We went back to dinner and ate our pizza (same pizza, warm, less appetizing than when hot and fresh), and went back to the squad and got to visit with Dana's crew until *they* got sent out -- I never got the details on their call. And then there was blissful sleep, until just after 5am, when we got sent out again (I was now with Dana, since the rest of my crew left at midnight) -- again, lovely patient, with cardiac pain -- dropped off the ALS provider after the hospital and headed back to the squad. I marked our unit out of service immediately, and they sent us a call by mistake right afterward, but they dispatched someone else instead. Close call!
Dana's just now ending another clinical shift and should be on his way home shortly. I hope that he got to see lots and lots of patients -- he's scheduling many clinical shifts in an effort to get all his boxes checked off.
After the shift, I went to breakfast with some friends and then we worked out. I haven't exercised at all in a lonnnnng time...I expect I'll feel it a lot tomorrow. But we walked, and ran a little, and did some circuit stuff and then swam. I'm going to make a point of using the Bowflex when they go to the gym to workout, so we'll be sweating in solidarity, and then they're going to come over here and we'll walk the golf course. Or something.
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whizzrjohn, you're right -- they switched stuff out, because "Say Goodbye To Hollywood" for SURE isn't the version I remember from the old CDs. Han shot first, dammit.)We had ambulance duty last night. Dana got home from a clinical shift at the hospital and changed, and we headed over early. No sooner had we marked the unit up and we were sent out to a pedestrian struck by a car. Turns out the man's wife had run over his foot, he fell over, and she drove over him again and stopped with the tires on his legs. Jerry Springer is alive and well in our little county, I guess. We headed back to the squad to pick up the rest of our crews, went to dinner and no sooner had our salads come out when I was sent out again. (Dana got to eat his dinner. And then go for dessert.) We headed out to help another one of our crews at a minivan that had been rear-ended -- 2 adult patients and one child patient, all with neck/back pain. We used many collars, KEDs, long boards, spiders and headblocks packaging them, and got them all extricated well and safely off the hospital. I have to say that ALL of the patients were pleasant and drama-free; sadly, the hospital staff was less nice to deal with.
We went back to dinner and ate our pizza (same pizza, warm, less appetizing than when hot and fresh), and went back to the squad and got to visit with Dana's crew until *they* got sent out -- I never got the details on their call. And then there was blissful sleep, until just after 5am, when we got sent out again (I was now with Dana, since the rest of my crew left at midnight) -- again, lovely patient, with cardiac pain -- dropped off the ALS provider after the hospital and headed back to the squad. I marked our unit out of service immediately, and they sent us a call by mistake right afterward, but they dispatched someone else instead. Close call!
Dana's just now ending another clinical shift and should be on his way home shortly. I hope that he got to see lots and lots of patients -- he's scheduling many clinical shifts in an effort to get all his boxes checked off.
After the shift, I went to breakfast with some friends and then we worked out. I haven't exercised at all in a lonnnnng time...I expect I'll feel it a lot tomorrow. But we walked, and ran a little, and did some circuit stuff and then swam. I'm going to make a point of using the Bowflex when they go to the gym to workout, so we'll be sweating in solidarity, and then they're going to come over here and we'll walk the golf course. Or something.