Attacked by a naked woman

Well I have finally caught the cold that my husband and son have been battling for the past 3 weeks. Its a nasty chest cold and this is probably the only day that I don't want to be on the engine and fighting fire. My chest hurts to breathe, and I'm taching away at 145. Yuck.... but when you love the job this much.... the second the bell rings with a structure fire... its all adrenaline and you cant wait to do the dance.

But no such luck. We started the day with a 3-alarm fire in progress on the opposite side of the county. And all day... we would get dispatched to an Alpha/Non-emergency/Butt-Ache call and the very next dispatch would be a working fire in our immediate or the next territory over. AARRGHH!!! We worked a call for a couple of hours on a gas leak. The guy operating the backhoe... next to the 3" gas line that was severed... it was his first time. He was trying, but he was making me nervous with all his second guessing his actions.

Then comes Dorothy. Dispatched for a diabetic problem, it could be either to high or to low. Well... she was a bit to low. So low that when we get to her home and her sister lets us in, we find an early-50's woman, butt-naked and running around the bounce bouncing off the walls... literally. You know how pinball machine ball bounces in a zig-zag fashion coming down the lane, yeah...that was her. I coaxed her to let us in her room and let me take her sugar. 41. The 2 guys on my engine crew are just around the corner to my side since she once she saw them she freaked again. Laughing in that psycho laugh that some people have. So I've now coaxed her into sitting on the bed so we can get her some D50. And in just a hair of a second, she has jumped up, slammed the door shut (blocking my exit) and is coming at me trying to hug me with this insane laugh and her tongue hanging out the side of her mouth. UGH!!!!!

I almost knee her to get he off when E comes in and pulls her off. She then literally falls onto the bed and bounces off the other side, head first, with naked butt and legs up in the air. Wow.... just wow. Her sugar must have dropped enough to mellow her out a bit and once she had the D50 in her she was as laid back and sweet as Aunt Jemimah.

We ran a little kitchen fire at 5am.... that's the only real fire we got. Oh well... just as well. Now I'm gonna Vicks up and try to fast forward this chest cold. Stay safe out there.