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  1. Caliza

    Need suggestions for studying!

    A lot of people have made some great suggestions already... Practice outside class time with people, know the check sheet backwards and forwards... A couple things that have worked for me...for my final scenario last semester, in the hour or so before it I went to the gym, got on the...
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    Stair Chair Lifting help

    Next week. Probably on Thursday, but I don't know for sure yet.
  3. Caliza

    Stair Chair Lifting help

    The doc said it was probably a sprain, or a pulled muscle. It's healed now, and I no longer have any limitations. I have been doing the exercises I mentioned above.
  4. Caliza

    Stair Chair Lifting help

    At every landing I had to stop for a few minutes to catch my breath. At one point I was told my skin colour was "white as a ghost". Basically extreme exertion, I was leaning on the wall for support and this was with a lifting partner who is pretty strong. . Slipped on some ice, and extended...
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    Forum Names

    My first name is "Catherine". My middle name is "Elizabeth". I smushed them together to get "Caliza". And it's the name I use all over the internet, for pretty much any board I sign up for... Cat
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    Stair Chair Lifting help

    I will warn you first that this will probably get a bit long. --- I'm currently a paramedic student, and at the end of each semester we have benchmarks we have to meet for our lift testing (doing each lift on a stretcher, loading the stretcher in and out of an amublance, walking with a...
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    Ontario (Can) Pre-Employment Fitness testing..

    It really depends on the service, from what I've heard (I'm a paramedic student in Ontario and a lot of the second-years in my school have been going through job testing over the past few weeks). For instance I've heard that some of them have had candidates do lifts with like 250 pounds...
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    Newbie Intro!

    Hey everyone, M'names Catherine (but you can call me Cat) and I'm a Primary Care Paramedic Student at Sir Sanford Fleming College in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada (just coming to the end of first year of a two year program...). I decided to get into this field, because when I was in...
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