Recent content by ErinCooley

Absolutely... LOVE, LOVE, LOVE my job. Sometimes its really easy to hate 24 hour shifts on the busiest truck in our operation, but overall I've got it made. PS, I work full time on a 911 ACLS ambulance for a company that runs 10K calls a year w/ 4 trucks.

as long as there is coverage for 24 hours a day, the government/county/state/city could care less how many men/shifts it takes to do the job, or for how long they do it.

in a few weeks I'm gonna join yall. I think classes start late June/early July but I dont know the exact date.

the trash not being emptied.... I totally understand if they had a busy night (we work 24's) or a late call and didnt get it restocked or refueled, however there is NO reason not to empty your trash OR put a liner back in the can.

Another big boobie'd girl in the field here.... I stopped buying cute little bras after kids. Now, I wear the enormous, grandma ones that hold the girls up and minimize as much as possible. However, I found a really cool sports-bra type @ Wal-Mart. It has cups so you dont get a uniboob, and...

I've also heard of one called Hero Pants, or something like that!

there is a new book out by a firemedic out of Florida then NYFD who now lives in my town. I cant for the life of me think of his name, or the name of his book though. I will see if I can find it.

1 time i did. No matter how hard I tried, I couldnt control it. I ended up walking away for a minute. This patient kept burping. Like LOUD belching every 5 seconds. I was rolling laughing. It wasnt until after we got her in the back and I realized she was faking the burps that I got...

the ability to get stuff from your head to your hands... if you got that, everything else will come w/ time!

We're hiring Medics, and I'm pretty sure we are/about to start hiring EMT-I's.

If you ever see me run, PLEASE shoot the large animal that is chasing me!

we had to 3rd ride for a while before being released w/ a partner. That first call was an active seizure. post 3rd riding it was something dumb like general sickness... fever, chills, n/v. One of those calls that needs a taxi to the docs office more than an ambulance to the ER 3rd riding...

Its something I've wanted to do for years. About my 2nd or 3rd year of college, i KNEW its what I wanted to do when I grew up, but having a father who graduated 2nd in his Naval Academy class, it was expected that I graduate from college. 5 years later I did, then had kids and was a stay at...

Probably 1 of 2.... Aug. 30, the day before the 1 year anniversary of my little girls death, we had a young boy w/ a majorly fractured skull w/ brain injury from rolling his fathers large quad over, handle bars squishing his head. I started back smoking that night. Or, 5 Rangers just back...

I get that, and I get taking pics for training and/or evidence purposes. However, I see very little reason why an EMT or Paramedic would have use of a cell phone picture... other than to put them on the internet which I personally think gives our industry as a whole a bad name. For instance...