ANYTHING ELSE YOU WANT LIEUTENANT ... OR CAN WE SLEEP NOW!!!!!!!!!!

Wow, busy night last night.
Popped by the station to work out with my "trainer" again. Its kind of nice having one of the career guys take an interest in helping you to get ready for the CPAT, although every muscle in my leg and my core is hating Cuz today. Yeah we call him Cuz, and no its not derogatory!! This has to be the first time i've picked up a jumprope in damn near 15 years. Its a hell of a workout and i'm going to incorporate it into my daily routine as at least a warmup. But i digress.

My real reason for being at the station was to ride our career medic unit as a 3rd or 4th ....

I swear for the last 4 days our station has been on a rampage when it comes to medic calls. monday they ran 13 calls. Our station usually averages maybe somewhere between 2 and 5 calls a day. So i decided to get in on the maddness a little. Just finishing my workout and the tones drop.... and i'm in my workout stuff, sweating stinking like a pig. Engine and Medic 2 respond to Western suburbia for and attempted suicide, caller states pt has stabbed himself with a 12" butcher knife in the upper abdomen. I'm doing that double take, should i go, shoud i stay, shoud i go, should i stay. I decide its better to actually finish my workout and get clean and change into a real uniform than stink out the back of the unit with my stench.

DAMNIT TO HELL!!! Thats a great call. Wound up not being what was called in but it was a good call none the less.

I get dressed wait for the medic to go AIQ again and throw my stuff in the back compartment with the BLS bag. I settle in with my knitting, yes i said knitting (see my huge list for reference) thinking that a stabbing would cap the evening off pretty well and nothign much more would be going on that night, so i settle in for a nice night of making my ugly scarf. In my usual spot in front of the altaris terminal, PING!!!!!!! Holy crap another call? i hit the "URGENT" button to see the CAD dispatch before its voiced over the radio. CPR: CARDIAC ARREST ...WEST BUMBLEFUCK HOUSE911. Everyone charges to the units and out the door. The BLS volunteer unit adds onto the call and we're off. Flip the CAD open and see its a 96 year old patient. The chances of this being a working code just dropped, in adition to the response time to that part of the 1st due is a little longer than usual right now.

We get to the house and to put it politely "we're not needed, you can put us back in service". We hang around for the police to show up and our driver and lieutenant pronounce time of death. Its kinda wierd, the only dead bodies i've seen were family members. It was odd seeing the corpse and not feeling much emotion at all. A good learning experience, but wierd. We head back to the station and settle in for the night, i really can't sleep because i'm on pins and needles ready for another call. I want a good trauma or something!

NOTHING ... all night nothing, just the sound of my contacts gluing themselves to the undersides of my eyelids. Kind of a squuuuuiiiish splot, type noise whenever i moved my eye.

I get up because i can't sleep any more, so i figured i'd do something productive. Not realizing what time it really was i'm just milling around the station and the tones drop yet again, OUT WE GO. Young woman reportedly having a seizure. We get there and, yup, definitely seizure activity, no obvious cause. No diagnosed seizure disorder she just went down and went down hard in the bathroom. Shes not exactly dressed modestly to have a house full of male firefighters and shes just entering the postictal phase and becoming aware of her surroundings, i really kinda fealt bad for her. But, seeing as shes possibly hit her head and whatnot we decide to backboard her and fully imobilize her.

Shes perfectly calm through the entire thing, i dont think she even said more than 2 words. Her brother and sister looked like they had just seen a ghost.

Well thats about where that story ends for me, i hopped a ride back to the station in the engine to give mom room to ride to the hospital in the medic unit.

yup, thats the end of the story.... whee ... right?

Class tonight is on Pediatrics and Geriatrics, the pooping your pants years... WONDERFUL!