1st of 2009

Hope you and your had a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! I had a great one. It was nice, relatively quiet and mellow. Spent with family and friends and celebrating the reason the for the season. I'm excited about what 2009 will bring me.



With the holidays and filling in at other stations and then my Kelly Day, it feels like I haven't been at my station in forever. So I have a bit of a renewed sense of "lets get it done". Our first call of the day slams me head-first into reality and the bread-n-butter calls we get everyday. Its a difficulty breathing call for a woman who I ran on just last week. She hates using her CPAP machine and is really wanting some attention from her family so she feigns, and hums and hoos. We get there and its really her belly. She says she has a hernia for the past few years but now its hurting when she moves. She wants an ambulance because she thinks she'll get seen faster. When the basic unit arrives she feigns some more and cries for her family to not leave her. We try and get her to the door to the stretcher. After a good 10-15min of trying to get her outside she says she has to pee. But in a not urgent kind of way. I say, "Ma'm, we need to get you to the hospital, do you think you can hold it, or do you need to go back inside?" Nope.... no answer.... just all of the sudden hear a drip, drip, dribble.... and yes... she is urinating on herself in the front yard. Of course we maintain our professional composure, but I am just perplexed at her non-chalant attitude as if of course thats what you do when you have to pee. Hhmmmmmmmm.



We ran a pediatric arrest on a 5-week old. It went textbook but did not end well. I need to call my hubby and check in on my own infant for a little reassurance. I say a prayer, one of many, for the family.