The Big City...

While on vacation recentally I decided to join a friend at work to ride along in the big city... Its funny that no matter where you go, the calls are all the same, people not taking care of themselves, others not interested in life all rolled up in a package of over reaction.

Our morning was quiet, story of my career... I have this habbit of being a white cloud with a sliver lining... and I wasn't about to dissapoint my fans.

After a much enjoyed breakfast and chat we went to our first call... transplant patient unresponsive... awesome i think... me and my buddy that i'm riding out with start making bets on what kind of transplat patient the patient is... i guess correctly with liver for 300... its a sick world we work in to make bets on someones ailment... but you do what you can in EMS to get through the day.

Next call up was a 2 year old with a language barrier, remember how i said that EMS is overreaction... prime example... mom says that the boy was choking, he had been sick and stopped breathing, on arrival you get a screaming 2 year old who won't look at you, but feels warm... and the mom is suprised that he just might have a fever... 2nd prize... trip to 2 to the childerns hospital.

After lunch we got a special treat of a person in the 8th floor of an apartment building... not moving and the caller has baricaded herself in her apartment and won't check... up we go to save the day.. give a few carefully placed nudges and the patient wakes up and is hammered... go figure... banana bag for you once we get to the ER....

The last call was for sure the best... now, the fire dept does get called for lift assists.. but when your patient is flagged as a bariatriac patient with dispatch, you know you will need a crane!... 500-750 lbs of pure women awaited our arrival complaining that all this water on her was her problem... 12 men, 3 hours, and 1 bariatric stretcher/ambulance combo with a winch later she was off to the hospital to solve her 'water' problem and her numb legs...

It was good fun playing in the city again, after working rural for a while, its easy to forget the fun you can have.