It's been a delving week and finally I've convalesced. It's been busy but home is the sailor as they say. Thursday I had my first code, and the patient sorry to say did not make it. In all respect I think he was flatlined prior to our arrival. You get these instincts after awhile that allow you to see inside, and the medics couldn't get electrical ( Read more... )

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 ( Read more... )

Relinquished early this morning. I couldn't get to sleep until four this morning and slept til noon. At a glance I looked anguished but rather was pontificating upon the day. The cat slept near my feet,and lately I've been dragging my own tail as it were. The coffee was not good this morning, it's just not the same without the sweetness. Milk just ( Read more... )

Two 12 hr shifts makes my head feel like a mason jar filled with buckshot rolling down a sand dune.  I'm tired in other words, but it hasn't been a boring few days. Been to every hospital except for John Dempsey.. thank god. One woman almost coded but she was only in A Fib enough that the paramedics wanted her on the stretcher immediately. The only ( Read more... )

!st day:

One PT with High Fever and Labored Breathing Hypertensive 
One PT per fall from husban/ dementia ... 
One PT allergic reaction/ shock

hell of a first day

We'll see what midnight brings, apparently I'm good for business.  

The day began like the Donner Party struggle, but I eventually found my cigarettes hiding under my scarf .  I wish Halloween could stay for more than one night's havoc. I do not look foward to co -exist with the upcoming holiday cheer. That shit got me right on the heel, but no matter hopfully I will work for each celebration til new years. Already ( Read more... )

 
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

The provocation has been put to bed and I finally snagged a job.  Finally talked to my  instructor who put me on mandatory 90 day probation as of October.  A few more years  and I'll get to paramedic. Chip and Goldy keep begging me to make a permanent move when I get to paramedic , but my tomcats are still young and I'm happy in my new digs. But  ( Read more... )

Today I'm 22 and I'm treating it like any other day off. The painter called me and wanted to know if I wanted to work this week. I do not. I'm driving to Groton to apply for a firefighting position before my papers are processed. In other headlines there's a new addition to the dead end kids. Kait has be-trusted with me her youngest kitten whom she ( Read more... )

Almost 9 o'clock 8/16/07 and the results are in. I am an EMT...

This would be a good time to stop relinquish from the journal, I have work to do. And I must go kiss a ball headed little mouse on the head... All doors are opened..

"Of grandfatherly gentleness I'm devoid,
There's not a single grey hair in my soul!
Thundering the world with the might ( Read more... )