The challenges of emergency calls

The weekend is finally over. It always seems like holiday weekends drag on due to the fact that they just never want to end, doctors offices are closed, everyone is sick and needs taken to the hospital. This weekend was one of the wierd ones. Only went out once near shift end. Ended up being an elderly man who was little short of breath. Normally on O2 for some reason he decided to take it off when he became short of breath. O2 sat was in the 80's. What a wonderful fall morning, raining, cold and windy. We gave our report to the doctor when we arrived at the Emergency Department. The doctor seemed worried about the patient's Code Status. I guess that would be a nice thing to know if they guy had to be intubated which would likely happen. It is a shame you can't follow patients through their visits and transfers all the time. It would amaze you what happens as the patient makes a big recovery or a big slide from where you last saw them. The only way we learn somet...

I often have wondered if I could ever have the ability to write, or compose something. I can run on once I get to typing and it just comes easy since typing class in high school. I don't know how fast I type anymore but I could do up to 30-40 words a minute back then or faster. I am starting this blog to kinda show my life and log things that happen. I won't use any names or locations as that wouldn't be allowed by state/federal laws. I will do my best to keep the details together but sometimes they might sound totally crazy but it does happen. I work in EMS things are always crazy. Nothing goes totally as planned, nothing happens when you want it to, nothing is worth really going on about. I have been in EMS several years now and work in a mostly rural area with under 25,000 citizens. I never intended to stay in EMS let alone have a job in EMS. It was accidental. I hope you enjoy my life and stories and maybe get a laugh or two a week. Come again and I hope yo...