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Part of my continual writers block is overcoming the starting point. I have always been a “title first” kind of writer. I come up with an idea based on some title or thought. From there I work.
Here are some of the Draft Titles sitting in my “posts to be completed” pile:
Since one of my least favorite bloggers moderates her comments, and mine will never make it public. I have decided to go here. If you need a clue, let me know.
Bullshit. Bullshit. Bullshit.
Does it make you feel better to make shit up or do you have a serious psychological issue?
I am honestly concerned about your health. You have this constant need to feel important. Like YOU matter. YOU do not. None of US do. As a tech in a hospital you do things that are essential to the hospital. But nothing that any other competent tech couldn’t. YOU did not save anyone. YOU are NOT important.
You think you have some magical powers, great looks, awesome personality, and clever wit. Guess what. You don’t. You would only impress someone who has no medical knowledge at all. Even then, they’d have to be a dumb ass to believe you.
Go to bed, get up, and get a damn life. Sweet Mary, Mother of God. I seriously can’t handle all of this crap anymore. You get your rocks off making yourself feel important to the blogosphere.
Take your @paramedicdan-esque ways and pack them up. The only people who pretend to believe you are more fascinated with your whorish ways than anything else.
Quit making EMS look like a joke. We take our jobs damn seriously and we are sick of people making a mockery of it.
Asher had another VCUG and Lasix renogram today for his hydronephrosis. Won’t have results for a day or two, but it looked like it always did… delayed draining of the left kidney. Hoping they find something diagnostic soon.
Until then, here is a pic of the little monster(who does not like anesthesia… fought it really hard).
After a dose of chloral hydrate and 2 doses of versed… the walk BACK to PEDS is what put him to sleep… Stinker.
We picked up a young Hispanic couple this evening along with their 5 children. I can only presume they were their children, as they did not speak a lick of English. I tried and tried but no one responded to my pleads in English or my piss poor attempt at Spanish.
There were no injuries. No complaints, but they wouldn’t get out of my ambulance. When we got to the hospital, the youngest child(4) speaks in clear English while the others freak out in Spanish…
“Hey taxi man, this isn’t our house”
In EMS there are a few tools we use as coping mechanisms. CISM(Critical Incident Stress Management) is the most common, despite many organizations not having active CISM systems. While I find CISM to be useful, it is rarely deployed for run of the mill EMS calls. Death and Dying is our business, and if we had a CISM meeting(which includes everyone from first responders to ED doctors and Medical Directors) for every death in the field, we would spend more time in meetings that in our trucks.
This leads many of us to find our own personal stress management tools and techniques. Some people vent to coworkers, some people blog… Some people pray, or drink, or work out, or smoke. Me…. I drive home.
Every morning when my shift gets over at 0700 I hope for a partly cloudy sky. This winter has been good to me. With crisp, cool winds, light cloud cover and beautiful sunrises, I have done more call reviews on my drive home, alone with Country Music in the background than any CISM meeting or Jack and Coke could provide me.
I use the 9 mile long, 15 minute drive to go over the night before. By the time I am home, I always feel better than I started. The roads are clear in my direction, everyone headed into the city for work while I head out on my way home. I drive a hilly road straight into the sun and every morning is a great reminder that the cycle keeps going.
People live. People die. In between we can only keep on trying. Finding a tool to review, learn from, and sometimes forget bad shifts is one of the most important things I have done in my short bid in EMS. Without my drive home to a different kind of chaos, I really don’t know what I would do.
Fortunately I don’t have to.
in reply to RVaEMSExaminer #
For months I have struggled to keep this blog alive. I have posts inside me. I have posts started. I just can’t muster them out. This is really the way a big chunk of my life is going. I am incredibly happy with my wife and son, but something is amiss.
I am often distracted, barely able to pay attention to the simplest of things. Medically, I am an undiagnosed ball of annoying symptoms–not debilitating but the sum of them is wearing me–and my family–out. I stugle to be the man I promised my wife I would be, while being a father I respect and a paramedic I would trust.
That is all I want–to be a good husband, father, and paramedic. Just like the subtitle to my blog. That is me. There is little more to me than those three things. Sure, I am a son, a brother, a friend. But the sum of these three things defines the man I am today. Yet I find myself uninspired. I have an amazing wife, an adorable 1 year old son and a job I love doing and I am just uninspired. When I get home, I kiss my wife, hug my son, and go to bed. I fail miserably at sleeping all day and then repeat the cycle.
I make goals–to work out, eat better, spend wiser, study harder–yet I never follow through with any of them. I set these goals again and again and I always end up where I started. Uninspired.
I have the desire to move past all of this, but I just need the right push? What will that push be?
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#I don’t appreciate when people can’t admit they are wrong. Especially medical professionals. So here is a conversation I had on twitter today(me in RED):
At the allergist.Allergist found nada. Ugh.
@medicTHREE What are your symptoms? Sometimes allergies cant be picked up by allergists (IE: Celiac)
@EMTDani pretty much celiac or lactose intolerance. Doing full celiac panel.
@medicTHREE just do an at home test. Go 7 days without wheat. If u still feel crummy do a week without corn, lactose or egg
@EMTDani gluten stays in your system upwards for 40 days It isn’t just wheat either Take a look at what really has gluten in it (sans wheat)
@EMTDani I have been tested for common food allergies. All negative. They say 90 days gluten free before relief of sx.
@medicTHREE I have celiac with corn and wheat. Dad is severly wheat intolerant also
@EMTDani celiac is gluten intolerance. Wheat and corn are allergies. You could be allergic to wheat and still eat gluten
@medicTHREE celaic has 4 categories to it. Gluten. Lactose. Egg and corn.
@EMTDani Not trying to be a jerk… but that is incorrect. “The cause of Celiac Disease, also known as gluten sensitive enteropathy (GSE)”
@EMTDani https://celiac.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5&Itemid=11
@EMTDani Again, Gluten is not the same as wheat, and wheat, corn, and egg are allergies. Technically you can overcome many food allergies
At this point @EMTDani stops responding DIRECTLY to me and just tweets publicly….
I love how people argue with me on shit I’ve lived with for nearly 10 years. I think I know what I live with guys.
So I responded….
@EMTDani No need to get all cranky about reality.
@EMTDani Celiac A disorder resulting from an immune reaction to gluten, a protein found in wheat and related grains, and present in many foo
@EMTDani http://www.celiac.com/articles/39/1/The-Standard-Definition-of-Celiac-Disease/Page1.html
@EMTDani http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/celiac-disease/DS00319
@EMTDani I tried to be polite. Simply Put. Use google.
@EMTDani http://dictionary.webmd.com/terms/celiac-disease
@EMTDani http://www.cancer.gov/dictionary/?CdrID=377726
@EMTDani http://www.merriam-webster.com/netdict/celiac%20disease
@EMTDanihttp://www.fda.gov/Food/LabelingNutri
She responded with….
Some people are pricks. Hello block button.
Do people really take pleasure out of turning into a troll? Really?
So here’s the thing……. Never was I refuted. Why? Because you can’t refute this. I might be a prick. But I’m a prick who is right.
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