Who took my weekend??
Another weekend gone and nothing much to show for it. This one had Dave and I both running station duty on Friday and Saturday nights (Sat is an every six-ish week rotation and makes for a short weekend). Saturday during the day I headed off to a meeting that took all morning and left me feeling … flat. But it was followed by a lively Mexican food lunch with a wonderful and supportive man.
This weekend yielded some REALLY great quotes while on duty. Dave said “it is amazing that Britian actually lost that colony” in reference to a wussy patient. But beating that was the following heard on the radio …
Dispatcher: Medic XX, respond on ... for a XX year old male for chest pain.
Unit: <>
Dispatcher: Pt states he took cocaine earlier in the evening and now his hear is racing and his chest hurts
Someone from my station: Well then, guess the cocaine is working
Unit: Um, Loudoun, has the sherriff’s office been dispatched on this?
Dispatcher: Ye-es. They got the initial; you are supplemental to the call.
Dispatcher: We have further information from the caller … patient states that he is “calm and ready to go to the hospital”
Ri-ight. Okay so maybe only EMS people will find this funny. We all laughed for a long long time.
Sunday plans were a study in boy am I tired of this winter thing. I realize that we have no reason to complain, it is not like winter came early and we have ben suffering for all these long months. Yes I remember the 70 degree December. But damnit, I really do not like shoveling the walk. I was promised a ½ inch of feezing rain and instead we got 4+ inches of snow slushy crap. In my next life time I should be a weather man. They are wrong all the bloody time, and no one seems to mind that. If I were so inaccurate in my job I would be out of a job.
Yeah, so Sunday was NOT a day of going out with Wendy to fun things like bridesmaid dress shopping, fabric strore and the ever loved container store. Instead it was a day spent in the basement, watching movies and TV. There was also some studying and a nap here and there. Not the day planned, still a good day!
This week - somewhere between 1 and 3 exams to take (one class has a rigid course pace, the other is self paced). Duty tonight and Friday. Blissfully nothing else on the planner for weeknight plans. Perhaps this means some dinners at home and time to study for those tests.
This weekend yielded some REALLY great quotes while on duty. Dave said “it is amazing that Britian actually lost that colony” in reference to a wussy patient. But beating that was the following heard on the radio …
Dispatcher: Medic XX, respond on ... for a XX year old male for chest pain.
Unit: <>
Dispatcher: Pt states he took cocaine earlier in the evening and now his hear is racing and his chest hurts
Someone from my station: Well then, guess the cocaine is working
Unit: Um, Loudoun, has the sherriff’s office been dispatched on this?
Dispatcher: Ye-es. They got the initial; you are supplemental to the call.
Dispatcher: We have further information from the caller … patient states that he is “calm and ready to go to the hospital”
Ri-ight. Okay so maybe only EMS people will find this funny. We all laughed for a long long time.
Sunday plans were a study in boy am I tired of this winter thing. I realize that we have no reason to complain, it is not like winter came early and we have ben suffering for all these long months. Yes I remember the 70 degree December. But damnit, I really do not like shoveling the walk. I was promised a ½ inch of feezing rain and instead we got 4+ inches of snow slushy crap. In my next life time I should be a weather man. They are wrong all the bloody time, and no one seems to mind that. If I were so inaccurate in my job I would be out of a job.
Yeah, so Sunday was NOT a day of going out with Wendy to fun things like bridesmaid dress shopping, fabric strore and the ever loved container store. Instead it was a day spent in the basement, watching movies and TV. There was also some studying and a nap here and there. Not the day planned, still a good day!
This week - somewhere between 1 and 3 exams to take (one class has a rigid course pace, the other is self paced). Duty tonight and Friday. Blissfully nothing else on the planner for weeknight plans. Perhaps this means some dinners at home and time to study for those tests.