COME IN FROM THERE YOU"LL CATCH YOUR DEATH OF COLD....

BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.....

Been a bit nippy here for the past week or so, not the usual temperate good natured .... um....nature thats been hanging around for the past month or so.

Bundled up, ready for class....oddly enough Environmental Emergencies is on the plate for tonight. I'm THIS close to being able to have a visual aide for frostbite. Although i'm convinced that if the wind picks up just a LITTLE bit it'll be freezerburn.

Well class runs extra long tonight, in comparison to what it usually does. But not a huge deal, just a little less time on the medic unit for the night. I'd been batting .000 for riding this month on the whole. I just need some time on a unit, i'm starting to get the DTs man!!!!

BUT, i digress, as usual. Show up at the station, the medic has had 9 calls that day, NINE!! i know thats not a huge deal for some of you reading this, but for our sleepy little "small town" firestation thats a lot, 2 or 3 is a normal day. PERFECT gonna be a busy night. WRONG, not a damn thing going on so i hit the sack and turn in for a good night sleep. Of course i can't find a freakin bunk to save my life so i finally wind up taking the extra bed in one of the career guy's bunkpods. Great i think i woke him up. BAH.... sets me up for a great night sleep. I finally doze off about 0245 thinking i can get a decent 4 hours before i have to head into work..... 0448 the tones drop, my contacts are cemented to the backs of my eyelids and i have to pee like a racehorse, NO TIME gotta go stroke symptoms.

Get there and the patient requests that only a few people come in the house she doesnt like a lot of people fussing over her. So i'm outside waiting with the engine crew from the station in our second due. Great, the cold weather is doing nothing but making me have to pee even worse, AND drying out my contacts even more. F*&$ i forgot my drops at the station. Damnit, now my eyeballs feel like dustbunnies.

Ok enough whining from the EMT-B...

We finally get Ms. PossibleTIA out of the house and into our unit. Get a lock in her arm 20ga by the looks of it, tiny but workable. Get the monitor on her, WOW!!! the 4 lead shows a pretty significant looking a-fib and a bunch of noise in the Sp02 curve. Ok, we should put her on some 02 and keep an eye on her. She starts to come around the left sided hemiplagia gets better, the speech comes back around, the facial droop gets better. WHEW, looks like it was a TIA, nothing too permanent.

Now i have to say, i really admire the ER nurses on the graveyard shift, they were perky upbeat smiling, and not all TOO unhappy to be awake.

Drop off this nice old lady and leave her in the hands of the ER to get her good nights rest that we so rudely disturbed.

ONE FREAKING CALL, they get 9 calls all day and only 1 while i'm riding, my black cloud of doom is losing its vigor, or its just turned its attention to me. between the drops and needing to pee for 3 hours i'd say it was doing a pretty good job