kind of a bad mental day...

Needless to say I am not exactly where I had thought/hoped to be in life. I am 24, have 2 college degrees, and found the job I absolutely love. Approx 2 yrs ago I even had the perfect guy for me. We were talking marriage and kids, had started looking at rings, I tried on dresses...then the bombshell came and he broke up with me for rediciulous reasons.

Long story short I thought for sure I would be married by 25 and hopefully have a baby on the way shortly there after.

At this point I have no idea where life is going. The dating scene where I live seems non-existent, but I havent put a lot of effort into either. I moved here 3 months ago and have managed to only make one new friend...I cant seem to figure out how to meet new people....I never had this problem before, but anytime I had been somewhere new I had been involved...like college classes, no I work 3 days a week and spend my days off lounging in my apartment. It has been making me pretty depressed lately.... I miss my family....ugh

thanks for letting me vent...i needed it

another quiet night

well I just spent another 6 hours at my volunteer station in WV and not even a tone dropped for our house....this white cloud of mine seems to be a blessing to everyone, including me sometimes, but other times I really wish I could get some of the experience I feel I need especially when I can have the experienced medics around if need be....

anxiety

Im 11 hrs into a 12 hr shift and just got back from my first call of the night.

Got called for a woman in her 30s who is supposedly SOB. Arrived at her house, beating the BLS crew by a good 8 or 10 minutes. Pt is breathing fast, but moving great air and speaking in full sentences to me. Turns out she had an out pt procedure done yesterday mornign and they gave her vicodin for pain, she took it as prescribed and went to bed last night around midnight, to wake up 3 hrs later in a panic from a nightmare....so she got the O2 andcardiac monitor and IV access while waiting for the BLS crew...while enroute to Big town Hospital she began experiencing "chest pressure" and I gave her some ASA, but otherwise pt had no changes on EKG or in vital signs.
She was feeling better by time the ambulance got to her house and even better by time we got to the hospital...

Help! I'm locked inside my car

We have all been on one of those calls where people run into stores and accidently lock their babies and kids in a car. But this? I have never encountered anuthing like this....this is special:
Help! I'm locked inside my car

Nutty News Today: 87-year-old woman rescued by police five miles from home when her mobility scooter ran out of control

Nutty News Today: 87-year-old woman rescued by police five miles from home when her mobility scooter ran out of control


I can not even imagine this 911 call. The nurses and other 2 medics and I working tonight were crying from laughing so hard.

babies and mva

Last night at work was a pretty slow night...only had 2 things to perk anyones interest.
1) while my partner was working the triage box a man runs in to tell him his wife is in labor and the baby is on the way. My partner goes out with a wheelchair (which is our protocol) to take her back to the maternity ward and walks out to find the woman laying in the backseat of an SUV legs up and the baby's head is crowning. He comes in looking for a hand and a stretcher to go outside, so I jump up and take the stretcher out. As I am rounding the back of the SUV with the stretcher I hear a baby crying and look in the car to see mom holding a tiny, slimy, blue baby inbetween her legs. I turn around to find my partner, an OB midwife, and 3 OB nurses rushing in with warm blankets and gloves and OB kits...just a few minutes late.... Poor Dad is standing there with a look of relief on his face but also kind of "what should i do know" look. I tell him to get in and turn the heat up, he looked relieved to help in some way. Checked in on the baby before leaving this morning and while they dont have a nursery here (the baby stays in Moms room) the nurse said while the baby was initially cold and bluish, she (yes it was a babay girl) was doing great.
2) I was taking my turn in "the box" (the triage area) and there was about an hour left in the shift and my cohorts get paged for an MVC- tractor trailer vs car. Not sure what the extent of injury was, but I know they said it was a heavy pin job and the helicopter beat our chase car with the medic on it....

snow in the forcast tonight so we shall see...its only been as high as 40 today.

this whole blog thing I am really enjoying, well reading others anyways. I am still pretty sure i am the only one reading my own. And thats ok with me. This past weekend I met up with a few people I met back in Feb at Pipestem conference and hung out with them for a few days and had a blast. I also realized that people are not alway what they seem.... I have a really hard time understanding people why people are discriminatory against other humans because of the color of their skin. It irritates me beyond belief!! I recently had been talking to a "potential" and realized he had such a discrimination and had to stop things right then and there. I believe a person should not be judged by their skin color and not even their words (as my "potential" definitly had me fooled by a slick tongue) but for their actions and character. Well, I feel a bit better no being able to rant even if its to myself! So back to work I go...Im working all night tonight....

rainy days....

I have seen a pattern for the last 2 weeks....it has rained everyday I have been off, and been nice and sunny the days I sleep to work my night shifts...talk about suck! Oh well. Today I am running on E....I worked last night and am staying up all day to flip so I can work a day shift tomorrow. I have a pretty full weekend coming up and am pretty excited about it. I am working 7a-3p tomorrow and then heading to WV for a few days to volunteer at my volley station, dog sit a good friends dog (Mox, he is a 100 lb lap dog) and see Mike and a few other friends who will be coming into town for the Eastern Panhandle Fire School. I am pretty excited. Lots of running around this weekend to end up back here in PA to work my normal nights and a day shift next week. I am in the process of looking for that part time job but will definitly buckle down next week on that when Im not running back and forth between states.... that is all I have for now. I will talk to you all later! Have a good weekend of you dont hear from me again tol next week....

aluminum pot poisening....

this was a new one for me.... a woman and her daughter were cooking noodles and soup in a stainless steel pot that they had had for years, while enjoying the noodles the mother got dizzy and spit her noodles out and told the daughter she wasn't feeling well and that it must have been the noodles, the daughter stopped and eating and agreed she felt ill too, therefore they agreed the pot must be aluminum and must have poisoned the soup. They both come into the ER with the poisoning pot and pace around the waiting room, sure that they are dying, asking continuously when they will be going in the back, meanwhile we have a full house in the ER... They finally get a room and the doctor goes in to talk to them and hears the story, he does a couple of tests and determines the older woman experienced some vertigo while the daughter has absolutely nothing wrong. As they were leaving the nurse goes to give the mother some meds for the dizziness and she asks what its for, when told for vertigo she states" whats that? I ain't never had that before, I ain't got no vertigo" and the nurse talks her into taking the medicine to go and a prescription but the woman refuses to take the pot back home with her....evil aluminum poisoning pot.... and these people reproduce??

:/

Well Emily and I made it to Baltimore on Friday and then it took forever to find a place to park that wasn't going to cost us 20 bucks for 2 hours. Once at EMS Today Ems and I both wished we had more time to look around. This place had over 4000 booths of all kinds of neat EMS stuff. We only got to see a fraction of them due to our time constraints. Although, I did get to meet Kelly Grayson, a paramedic and the author of one of my favorite books, and I scored an autograph in my copy of the 1st edition of his book, Life Death and Everything in between. (I would recommend this book to any EMS provider!)

Friday night I got to see Mike, although it was only for about 5 hours, it was great to see him. (Hopefully next weekend we get to spend a little more time together)

I spent the majority of Friday and Saturday dogsitting Mox, the 100+ wannabe lap dog of a good friend of mine. We had a good ole time, like we always do.

Now I am back at work, nothing exciting to really write about. I need a new hobby...

Oh I did recieve a letter yesterday from an old girlfriend from high school who is in the Peace Corp in Mongolia. That kind of made my day.

Well, Im outta here for now...