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An exchange between another unit and dispatch…
Unit 303c: Metro, 303c.
metro: go ahead 303c
303c: Metro, we’re going to be 10-8…. This one was just pretend. No ambulance needed.
After an unusually long delay…
metro: 10-4, 303c. Sorry about that. We’re just trying to keep it real. Real Good. (with faint laughter in the background)
Had to chuckle a little.
Probably one of the most tragic, yet somehow sweet deaths I’ve ever heard of:
Elderly couple dies while trapped in home elevator
While I imagine dying trapped in a closet size elevator for likely days prior to dying would be terrifying, I think that if I had to go this way being with the love of my life would offer some solace, no?
“Police discovered the Wadsworths’ bodies lying in a fetal position, facing each other…”
I can picture this pretty well… and won’t deny having lost a tear or two over it.
“We always said we hoped they would go together because if one went, the other wouldn’t survive long,” the couple’s son, Wesley Wadsworth of Blue Bell, Penn., said Thursday. “They were so dependent on each other.”
Godspeed.
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While perusing the blog front I was reminded of a few calls… While one I am writing now, the other I will just let Kelly Grayson tell for me….
Often times during those calls, while showing my stern and focused face behind swollen eyes ready to burst with tears, all I really want to do is say a nice health “Fuck You” and flip the bird…
Instead I put my nose down, do my job, and treat those we can. The shit days are when the dirt bag is your patient.
Last week while unloading a stretcher laden with a body (just to show how that day was going…) the cot latch failed and the 350 pound load came tumbling out the back of the truck with me on the foot end…
The result was my back muscles in intermittent spasming and a cot all the way on the ground. On day 4 of rest now and have 4 days before I return to work. A few doses of hydrocodone and cyclobenzaprine later, and I feel ok–though I keep screwing up and pushing myself too far.
Scary, to think that my whole career in EMS could be destroyed so quickly though. How would my family put food on the table if tomorrow I was out of work permanently?
Be safe out there, friends.
