Started the weekend off right, well I thought. My partner wasn't there, I would be getting the 24 hour shift medic, she had been on a day before and then on call that night, worked this morning, then working tonight because of a schedule fiasco on the bosses part. I start this writing a bit puzzled. I know, what I need to say but I want to hold it in also. I came to work tonight and found a full ER. There you have it, I work hospital based EMS. I found out over the past 2 years that alot of EMS agencies do work hospital based, it keeps their education up, and skills also. I thought I was special all along! I did get one piece of good news, A RIDER! SLAVE! I thought to myself. Just a note, a great song (I'm not a perfect person, I never meant to do those things to you. I found a reason to change who I used to be, a reason to start over new, and the reason is YOU!)
Okay that was nice and will fit in later, the song playing as I wrote this, before I came online to type it out of course. As I have said a few blogs back I figured out, I can write these a few days prior to posting them online, and not forget what I want to type. I write this to stay away now as the time is nearly 0500 and I have a few hours to go, and I want to pass some time. So the rider is barely adequate, a student in the EMT-Basic program, he is not very knowledgeable, considering being a first responder (of course that is inside a factory). I didn't do the normal spew most people feed to students. I didn't tell him he was going to be rich, or retire from EMS easily. I didn't brag about EMS, I didn't tell him he would be a millionare when he works EMS! I straight up got a calculator, punched in my starting hourly salary when I started nearly 3 years ago, and multiplied that by 40 hours, (Like I ever have a 40 hour week!) and the multiplied that by the 52 weeks a year. It came up with something about $15,000, that of course doesn't include my shift differential I make for working 2nd/3rd shift, and call pay which is a whopping $1 per hour, and then if I actually get called in I make time and 1/2. So usually I am higher then that. He says I make double that now! I know that!
He said he might go part time or PRN (As needed) with us. I told him calls sucked, being on call and being tied to it, not being able to leave town, having to be available for the 12 hours or however long you are on call. He seemed to think that wasn't too bad. I myself thought about it when I was interviewing. How bad can it be? I was dumb, UH HUH oh yes, I don't mind the call. Was I foolish! He mentioned that he had saw in a JEMS magazine that RENO, NV was looking for National Registry staff. Actually he referred to them as NR... I work EMS and I don't use NR. Using the initials NR sounds corny! He said he thought the $60k a year for medics was pretty good, I told him he would have to think about cost of living, he said it was cheap or was when he was single out there....... I argued every logical point he tried to make. Okay dude who the heck cares? THIS ISN'T RENO and plus, you aren't going to be a NR Basic, you will take the NR test and get a state license!
I ran him through the trucks, he seems eager, but tries to fill my mouth with answers as I am telling him what is in cabinets, and BS at that. He was totally wrong. He repeats what I tell him in an incorrect way, who knows what he will tell them I taught him. He is tailing me like a lost pup. I feel like big brother is watching me. We stroll into a patients room, take vitals, I do it all as I figure they don't want the slacker looking guy getting their vitals, they are sick already, I am embarassed to have him there! We get a call for flu like symptoms, I wait for my partner t wake up, I throw him in the back and tell him to hold on. We roll hot to the scene, LIGHTS AND SIRENS! Arrive, take the cot out and he jumps from the back, to the ground, I warn him about that stuff, we don't allow riders to get HURT! We go inside I hear the door slam, I look up and he let the door slam behind him at the patients house! Another good song on the radio (Your UNBELIEVABLE) is playing now as I write this, music is a great form of relaxation. So we load the patient. I say pu thte blanket not the sheet because it is cool outside, My partner and I are strapping the pt. She says the middle strap, I go to get it, and he is leaning over in front of me. I got it, get the blanket, DANG! Another great song!!!(Should I stay or Should I Go?) FOCUS, man.
I jump in and my partner makes him listen to lung sounds, he says diminshed, not sure what he listened to, but they sounded fine to me. We have a ZOLL M Series cardiac monitor, that does our pulse oximetry, and blood pressure readings should we want to use it. As a basic I can't use the monitor, but I can use the BP cuff and pulse ox, so I put the BP cuff, and pulse ox probe on. My partner started and IV, as I spike a bag, and flush a line and lock. He did the assessment. I called us en route back, I called someone special who was sleeping, who sleeps at 0100 on Friday? Okay I know I was wrong to use the phone and drive, and to call her so late! I needed to talk to someone!
We had a nice talk. So we get back he has to write a report, as if he had done everything. Of course only BLS interventions. It is terrible as I read it, because it is laying around. He will get better I am sure. I am sure mine would be the same, Had I never wrote a report. I am starting to read what I wrote and realize maybe I was a bit hard on him considering he is still early in class.
I drove through the area of possible future employment a few days ago, the place looks exciting from the outside, lots of action, lots of vehicles. I am not getting to excited, becasue some cause I have talked to online and read about, interview several times before they are hired on. I hav read e-books on tips and tricks to being hired and getting interviewed. I am feeling beter over the cold crap now. I write more awaiting my relief in about 1 hour. I feel all giddy, like a school girl. I wan tot write alot, a book, the possibility of a book has crossed my mind, it is great. Although I probably repeat crap everyone is tired of the complaining, and everyone already knows, and doesn't want to read or hear anyways. I at least can share my feelings effectively and write them down.
This is quite the experience. Saw a patient a young girl, I know I have seen her mom before, I realize I know her. I notice the address when I register her, and the name sounds one I know. I look through the phone book, not to be a stalker but find out if I know this person or what. NO WAY! I know that the mother who seems rather nice, and I find out his married to a bad guy! No way she could be married to such a dog, he is a cheater, and she doesn't know! I know this cause I am good, , I guess my investigative skills kicked in, and actually I had been told by someone in the past that he was having a relationship with a younger girl. I feel so bad for her, this beautiful young mother, and child, and all this time her husband is being an arsehole and running around on her!
I think it is wrong! But How could I? I did the same thing over 2 years ago, I was fond of a co-worker, she liked me and I liked her. One night after a long transfer I arrived back with a note on my vehicle, I was dating a girl and we just didn't get along the best. I went to leave and the co-worker and a friend showed up, they had been out drinking. She wanted to know if we could hang out a while and I could take her to her vehicle. I was a bit nervous, about getting caught, and about being with her. I did give her a ride and drove around a while, then I went to the parking lot where her vehicle was, and she was almost to get out and we just sat their talking, she said she wanted to do something but she felt silly. She wanted to kiss me. I wasn't totally against it cause I wouldn't mind it. So we kissed and parted ways. It was like magic, there was a spark. We talked at work and met up occassionally to talk and hang out, on my days off and around my other girlfriend. She said she wouldn't date me as long as I was dating someone else, so for a while mostly all we did was hang out. So one day I told her, I just didn't feel fright and broke her heart and went on with the co-worker. And I forgot to mention she was an alcoholic the co-worker.
Things with the co-worker were wierd. She had an ex in prison who was due to be released and she kinda wanted him back, but she didn't because I found out she had been writing him, and him writing her, and he had been calling her. I did later find out that he didn't care about her and wanted her to move on. Shortly after that she decided she wanted to get married and tried to force me into it. I wasn't quite receptive. Shortly before Christmas she broke up with me via email.
She told me it wasn't me it was her, she needed time away from me to think things over. I came to work a few days later, and found her and a brothers friend in the parking lot. I had noticed when we weren't together she was with her brother and his friends alot. Maybe that is why. Anyways she denied dating him, told me it was just he was returning a pan or something. Does that explain the kissing in the parking lot? Probably not. But I probably deserved it as I was back with my original girlfriend seeing her on the side again. We worked things out and the co-worker and I became friends until she stopped working there shortly afterwards.
I have come accustomed to heart break. Now I understand how it feels when you do it to someone else, I had a vengence after my heart being broken back in high school. I was dating a girl most of my senior year. We worked at the same place. We liked the same things. She was catholic. Well she was a minor and still was liking in her alcohol..... I was just very nervous when it came to underage and alcohol..... We went to prom, she calmed down the drinking, or at least didn't do it with me around. She moved to several states away, and went to an all girls school with like 10% male population and managed to find a guy there, and broke my heart online via messenger. Well I change my point.... if you aren't happy get out, don't break up all these people's lives. You hurt the girl you are having an affair with, cause she wants you, you hurt your child, and your ex-or current wife. Guys you can't have 2 or more forever one is gonna catch on and the other is gonna want a comittment. I will sign off now, I wanna get ready to leave. Check back later.
Okay that was nice and will fit in later, the song playing as I wrote this, before I came online to type it out of course. As I have said a few blogs back I figured out, I can write these a few days prior to posting them online, and not forget what I want to type. I write this to stay away now as the time is nearly 0500 and I have a few hours to go, and I want to pass some time. So the rider is barely adequate, a student in the EMT-Basic program, he is not very knowledgeable, considering being a first responder (of course that is inside a factory). I didn't do the normal spew most people feed to students. I didn't tell him he was going to be rich, or retire from EMS easily. I didn't brag about EMS, I didn't tell him he would be a millionare when he works EMS! I straight up got a calculator, punched in my starting hourly salary when I started nearly 3 years ago, and multiplied that by 40 hours, (Like I ever have a 40 hour week!) and the multiplied that by the 52 weeks a year. It came up with something about $15,000, that of course doesn't include my shift differential I make for working 2nd/3rd shift, and call pay which is a whopping $1 per hour, and then if I actually get called in I make time and 1/2. So usually I am higher then that. He says I make double that now! I know that!
He said he might go part time or PRN (As needed) with us. I told him calls sucked, being on call and being tied to it, not being able to leave town, having to be available for the 12 hours or however long you are on call. He seemed to think that wasn't too bad. I myself thought about it when I was interviewing. How bad can it be? I was dumb, UH HUH oh yes, I don't mind the call. Was I foolish! He mentioned that he had saw in a JEMS magazine that RENO, NV was looking for National Registry staff. Actually he referred to them as NR... I work EMS and I don't use NR. Using the initials NR sounds corny! He said he thought the $60k a year for medics was pretty good, I told him he would have to think about cost of living, he said it was cheap or was when he was single out there....... I argued every logical point he tried to make. Okay dude who the heck cares? THIS ISN'T RENO and plus, you aren't going to be a NR Basic, you will take the NR test and get a state license!
I ran him through the trucks, he seems eager, but tries to fill my mouth with answers as I am telling him what is in cabinets, and BS at that. He was totally wrong. He repeats what I tell him in an incorrect way, who knows what he will tell them I taught him. He is tailing me like a lost pup. I feel like big brother is watching me. We stroll into a patients room, take vitals, I do it all as I figure they don't want the slacker looking guy getting their vitals, they are sick already, I am embarassed to have him there! We get a call for flu like symptoms, I wait for my partner t wake up, I throw him in the back and tell him to hold on. We roll hot to the scene, LIGHTS AND SIRENS! Arrive, take the cot out and he jumps from the back, to the ground, I warn him about that stuff, we don't allow riders to get HURT! We go inside I hear the door slam, I look up and he let the door slam behind him at the patients house! Another good song on the radio (Your UNBELIEVABLE) is playing now as I write this, music is a great form of relaxation. So we load the patient. I say pu thte blanket not the sheet because it is cool outside, My partner and I are strapping the pt. She says the middle strap, I go to get it, and he is leaning over in front of me. I got it, get the blanket, DANG! Another great song!!!(Should I stay or Should I Go?) FOCUS, man.
I jump in and my partner makes him listen to lung sounds, he says diminshed, not sure what he listened to, but they sounded fine to me. We have a ZOLL M Series cardiac monitor, that does our pulse oximetry, and blood pressure readings should we want to use it. As a basic I can't use the monitor, but I can use the BP cuff and pulse ox, so I put the BP cuff, and pulse ox probe on. My partner started and IV, as I spike a bag, and flush a line and lock. He did the assessment. I called us en route back, I called someone special who was sleeping, who sleeps at 0100 on Friday? Okay I know I was wrong to use the phone and drive, and to call her so late! I needed to talk to someone!
We had a nice talk. So we get back he has to write a report, as if he had done everything. Of course only BLS interventions. It is terrible as I read it, because it is laying around. He will get better I am sure. I am sure mine would be the same, Had I never wrote a report. I am starting to read what I wrote and realize maybe I was a bit hard on him considering he is still early in class.
I drove through the area of possible future employment a few days ago, the place looks exciting from the outside, lots of action, lots of vehicles. I am not getting to excited, becasue some cause I have talked to online and read about, interview several times before they are hired on. I hav read e-books on tips and tricks to being hired and getting interviewed. I am feeling beter over the cold crap now. I write more awaiting my relief in about 1 hour. I feel all giddy, like a school girl. I wan tot write alot, a book, the possibility of a book has crossed my mind, it is great. Although I probably repeat crap everyone is tired of the complaining, and everyone already knows, and doesn't want to read or hear anyways. I at least can share my feelings effectively and write them down.
This is quite the experience. Saw a patient a young girl, I know I have seen her mom before, I realize I know her. I notice the address when I register her, and the name sounds one I know. I look through the phone book, not to be a stalker but find out if I know this person or what. NO WAY! I know that the mother who seems rather nice, and I find out his married to a bad guy! No way she could be married to such a dog, he is a cheater, and she doesn't know! I know this cause I am good, , I guess my investigative skills kicked in, and actually I had been told by someone in the past that he was having a relationship with a younger girl. I feel so bad for her, this beautiful young mother, and child, and all this time her husband is being an arsehole and running around on her!
I think it is wrong! But How could I? I did the same thing over 2 years ago, I was fond of a co-worker, she liked me and I liked her. One night after a long transfer I arrived back with a note on my vehicle, I was dating a girl and we just didn't get along the best. I went to leave and the co-worker and a friend showed up, they had been out drinking. She wanted to know if we could hang out a while and I could take her to her vehicle. I was a bit nervous, about getting caught, and about being with her. I did give her a ride and drove around a while, then I went to the parking lot where her vehicle was, and she was almost to get out and we just sat their talking, she said she wanted to do something but she felt silly. She wanted to kiss me. I wasn't totally against it cause I wouldn't mind it. So we kissed and parted ways. It was like magic, there was a spark. We talked at work and met up occassionally to talk and hang out, on my days off and around my other girlfriend. She said she wouldn't date me as long as I was dating someone else, so for a while mostly all we did was hang out. So one day I told her, I just didn't feel fright and broke her heart and went on with the co-worker. And I forgot to mention she was an alcoholic the co-worker.
Things with the co-worker were wierd. She had an ex in prison who was due to be released and she kinda wanted him back, but she didn't because I found out she had been writing him, and him writing her, and he had been calling her. I did later find out that he didn't care about her and wanted her to move on. Shortly after that she decided she wanted to get married and tried to force me into it. I wasn't quite receptive. Shortly before Christmas she broke up with me via email.
She told me it wasn't me it was her, she needed time away from me to think things over. I came to work a few days later, and found her and a brothers friend in the parking lot. I had noticed when we weren't together she was with her brother and his friends alot. Maybe that is why. Anyways she denied dating him, told me it was just he was returning a pan or something. Does that explain the kissing in the parking lot? Probably not. But I probably deserved it as I was back with my original girlfriend seeing her on the side again. We worked things out and the co-worker and I became friends until she stopped working there shortly afterwards.
I have come accustomed to heart break. Now I understand how it feels when you do it to someone else, I had a vengence after my heart being broken back in high school. I was dating a girl most of my senior year. We worked at the same place. We liked the same things. She was catholic. Well she was a minor and still was liking in her alcohol..... I was just very nervous when it came to underage and alcohol..... We went to prom, she calmed down the drinking, or at least didn't do it with me around. She moved to several states away, and went to an all girls school with like 10% male population and managed to find a guy there, and broke my heart online via messenger. Well I change my point.... if you aren't happy get out, don't break up all these people's lives. You hurt the girl you are having an affair with, cause she wants you, you hurt your child, and your ex-or current wife. Guys you can't have 2 or more forever one is gonna catch on and the other is gonna want a comittment. I will sign off now, I wanna get ready to leave. Check back later.