Who's the Boss????

No not Tony Danza, ME!!!!

Yup, first night officially riding the seat on a shift, our deputy chief was confident enough in my skills that he rode as my driver, he's pretty selective about who he rides with. So! All in all a good night, nothing too crazily interesting but we did get three calls.

First call came out while we were at dinner, 2nd due BLS so we got the engine from the 1st due with their medic, they showed up just before us. Found a wonderful gentleman sitting in his kitchen cheif complaint "I can't control my arms" ... eh pretty mundane, he knew what it was related to just a little scared about the effects, he had spinal stenosis of both the lumbar and cervical sections of his spine, he'd been in the hospital recently for the same type of thing. I did pretty good, probably could stand to be a little more assertive with my turnover report at the hospital. Rather than let the nurse ask for each bit of info, be one step ahead and feed her the info as shes getting to that part of the report.

Next call just happened to be in the middle of no where, it was in the one area in our 3rd duethat our map books don't cover, isnt in the GPS, and didnt have its address marked on the street at both entrances. So we flew right past it the first time. Wound up being more of a public service but since we had to bandage her arm we got to do a refusal of transport. So all in all quite boring from a blogging perspective but i covered a lot of different possibilities in the paperwork, saw a couple different call types, interfaced with career staff quite well if i do say so myself, and can honestly say i'm comfortable being in charge. Got the stamp of approval from the Deputy Chief too, said he'd ride with me again... a sign of trust i'd guess.

Alrighty then, i'll try and come up with some more interesting stuff soon, but i'm limiting the number of shifts i'm riding in the next week since i'll be in the Fire Academy 4 days a week 10 hours a day for 22 weeks starting on July 29th. I think i'll have to squeeze at least a few EMS shifts in there so my skills don't get rusty over those 5 months.

You'll be getting a lot of posts about fire school coming up, i know it will bore most of the EMS type readers, but hey its my blog and i'll post if i want to!