Recent content by Jim37F

Anyone in the Raleigh or Fayetteville area of North Carolina? Gonna be out that side next weekend (and then to see the family in Los Angeles the week after)

WTF....

Whew, so the other guy on my crew just came back from vacation (interestingly enough, he was on nearly the exact same cruise, same Ship, just on the northern Japan route instead of the southern route I did). He was (lightly) complaining of being a bit of a white cloud (the first shift he was...

Meanwhile, just finished rounds of skills Assessments and Interviews for promotion within my Dept... talk about a stressful couple of weeks

Think I just saw my first case of CPR induced consciousness (possibly)... eyes tracking, can squeeze fingers when asked... for all of about a min before losing it again

This whole past cycle got to use my BLS skills for bleeding control/bandaging wounds (as opposed to taking a BP or asking SAMPLE or Basic Lifting Services) on one singular patient.... Me, I is the Pt who stupidly tried to pry a can lid open in the kitchen lol

That moment when you're in the middle of your Vector Solutions CPR course, and get dispatched to a reported Cardiac Arrest.... (Only to find an awake and breathing Pt complaining of Fever, headache, and nausea... I guess the language barrier is to blame, and luckily the granddaughter was on the...

#MemorialDay

The mechanic says I need a new, well, reman engine for my pickup. Quoted $10+k 😵 And maybe in a "this should've been obvious at the start bruh", I mentioned my current engine is already a reman, and he's like "Oooh, hang on let's check another fault reason"

Well there's your problem for not knowing enough material to pass the final... you haven't actually been taught the material yet! Most courses don't expect you to walk in the door on day 1 knowing everything and being able to immediately sit for the final, I mean, that's literally the entire...

https://www.khon2.com/top-stories/oahu-gets-ems-overhaul-with-new-fleet-of-life-saving-vehicles/

Yup. Actually this is the third.... The first one was a couple years ago, August 2022. That was the bad one, while they were unloading at the hospital, they believe there was a fault with the oxygen system. The Patient died and one of our Medics were burned pretty badly (but he's since...

😶 https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/05/18/ambulance-bursts-into-flames-crews-respond-patient-wailupe/

Well it was all at my regular station, but we don't really sleep in here. Like Dispatch tones out every station at 0630, and sleeping in means you're in bed till 7 (which is when you're largely expected to have your bed cleared, even tho the next "hit time" is the 0730 wiping of thr truck before...

Picked up 12hr overtime shift on the night leading into my regular shift today (we call it a Hold Under, the mirror of a hold over). And proceeded to run as many calls as my last full 24hr shift in that half (and of course by the 3rd call at 0200, couldn't go back to sleep after), so now...