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If you are just trying to be dramatic and get attention, downing a bottle of tylenol is a really crappy way to do it.

Because you’ll probably die. Not might. You will most likely die, if you take 100 Tylenol capsules. I’m sorry, but I didn’t do it to you. If you need help or attention, ask. If the people you ask don’t pay attention, ask someone else.

Or suck. It. Up. If you don’t really want to die, don’t do something that is most certainly going to kill you. And PS, killing yourself is a petty, selfish and disgusting act. Killing yourself because your 15 year old pimply faced boyfriend broke up with you for cheating on him with his pimply faced best friend is just fucking stupid.

Posted by on February 27, 2011 • Filed under: Coping, ems-topics, Failure

Mmmmm….

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How I love potato chips. And Mt Dew. Oh, and I love pizza, beer, cheese, hamburgers, and my personal favorite… the Butterburger from Culvers. (yes, they really cook it in butter)

But it is time to lose this gut. When I graduated high school in 2002 I weight 132 pounds. I was a distance runner… Now the distance I run is from the couch to the fridge–with two stops, ended with a beer….

Kelly over at www.ambulancedriverfiles.com has placed the challenge, and I accept. Time to lose the weight.

My goal is 155lbs by June 18 when we go to Vegas for a friends wedding. Any other takers out there?

Posted by on February 26, 2011 • Filed under: ems-health-safety, ems-topics, Uncategorized

The Speech

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“Mr Thompson…. Today when we arrived your wife was not breathing, her heart was not beating. We began CPR and hooked her up to our cardiac monitor. The monitor showed that your wife’s heart had stopped. It had no electrical activity.

At that time we continued CPR while administering heart-starting medications and inserting a breathing tube. After nearly 20 minutes, nothing has changed.  Her heart is still not beating. She is still not breathing.

I give you my most sincere condolences, but she is deceased and there is nothing more we can do. I’m very sorry sorry for your loss. ”

This is how it plays out in my head. Well put, accurate, somewhat concise…

But it never comes out as well and they never let you get that far. It is even harder in untimely deaths.

What do YOU tell people when their loved ones have died?

Posted by on February 19, 2011 • Filed under: ems-health-safety, ems-topics, Failure, Heart Strings, patient-management