the snow flakes rebel

[bonesyboyo]

Well hell I seemed to detect bullshit in the late afternoon. Read the Paris Review on the toilet which is the only place to fully enjoy the shit. Oh , not true sometimes they do have good interviews. But all those writers are dead and Norman Mailer made the papers the last time around. Though I haven't slept I'm all fumes and vigor. I haven an

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Pulse Ox

[bonesyboyo]

That really depends on the call. I've been with 98 year olds who could tell you about days you've never seen before. Or I've gone on calls where a young girl in lockup can't tell whether or not she wants to live to see the next day. It's all very circumstantial. The training I have is often very automatic, and the paramedics give us additional information. Everything just comes but half of the job is actually trying to listen to what people are telling you. Some will refuse to talk to you but there are ways of uncovering their illness. It's alittle mysticism with a little medicine. I've talked to patients about some very cryptic things before. I wouldn't call it babysitting. Sometimes it's a futile attempt to save a life that will expire quicker than you'd like. It can be as simple as reassuring them that you can control whatever is after them. Or as hard as losing that control and the person volunteers for that eventually end. Had one patient whom on transport was cyanotic(blue skin tone." Something was definately going on that she couldn't circulate oxygen in her blood. At the hospital the nurse asked her what was wrong and she said nothing. Two days later her skin turned black and then she died. Very complacent , very erry. Today I had a motor vehicle crash but it wasn't that bad. Been working a lot lately and I might try to switch to AMR so they can pay for me to be a medic..