Eeewwww...

Ran a call late into the night for a person sick. Such a vague dispatch.. and to an address of an apartment tower of the geriatric age group. Enroute we get information that a grandson has something stuck in his ear. Hhmmm.. just what could we have here. To give you an accurate picture, most of the apartments in this tower are occupied by folks who have less than acceptable cleanliness standards. We walk in to find a 20-something young man in a chair with his head in his hands. He tells me he has a roach stuck in his ear. A roach!... stuck in his ear!!!! My partner and I cant see anything and at first I think.. no... please tell me no... maybe this kid has a crazy case of wax or something. Then I look at the dining room table and see a good 10-20 roaches crawling all over the place.. and as my eyes adjust to the low light... I see them all over the walls and ceiling. I want to bathe... NOW! We take him outside for better light and try to do our thing with no resolve. He says he can still feel it moving around. We take him on in and we use a potent lidocaine concoction to kill it and it floats out. ok... now I'm really ready for a bath.

Everything else was meat and potatoes... an arrest that should have been called in the field but since we couldn't get a line and dropped everything down the tube we transported. A bunch of basic calls where onset was 3-6 days earlier and now they were just "tired of feeling like this".

The next couple of days are set aside for chilling, working out, and doodling around the house. Next 2 weeks will be busy... see ya when I get back. Stay safe. Play hard. Get dirty.