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Get called for a Service Call-Public Assist (Lift Assist). That results in a single Fire company dispatched non-emergent, no EMS, to help someone whos fallen and can't get up (TM?) but is otherwise non-injured, no need to go to the hospital. I'm sure everyone here is rather familiar...
Walk in and the guy is face down, snoring respirations, blood from cuts on his hand and feet, and unresponsive to any stimulus and the wife is like "yeah he just rolled out of bed, can you help him back up?" Sure... right after we call for an ambulance... (turns out the guy was diabetic. Idk how accurate this method is, but a test of the blood from his cuts on his at home glucometer read "LO") Yes Ma'am the Paramedics are definitely taking him to the hospital...
 
Slowly coming around to liking these Airtraqs. After cleaning the airway, it made pretty easy work of a somewhat difficult airway.
 
The more projects I do at my house, the more I want to talk to the contractor that did the work to wonder what the hell was he thinking.
 
That moment when it's 2000 and halfway thru shift (we start 0800) and it suddenly occurs to me that we haven't had a call yet today (ok we got tones but immediately canceled earlier so that didn't count, plus a quick trip to the store) Otherwise I suddenly realized we had square wheels all day.

And of course we almost immediately get a call 😑 a bit funny, I'm actually the Acting Engineer today, Cap says to go ahead and stay with the truck as they go up into the apt building, and just as they dissappear inside (one of those where are radios don't like to work too) the patient comes walking up to me outside haha

Then we get a "possible jumper" on the Freeway that saw us, EMS, PD all driving up and down (luckily never finding anyone either on an overpass or ...not)

But then the EMS gods took pity on us, 2100-ish, was able to get my treadmill run in, then we slept and didn't get woken up overnight so I'll take that!
 
Good news and bad news, I need someone at LeFlore County to quit so a position opens up for me

And in other news the chickens were given away
 
Apparently in my 24hr urine test shows 276mg protein (apparently normal range is 40-150?)
 
Lol. I don't even really know what that means. Like I see the tested numbers are higher than the posted "normal range", but yeah I still don't have much a frame of reference for what said numbers actually say.

Though the Kaiser Doc pretty much just said she's gonna refer me to a Kidney Specialist so, yay...
 
Jim37F said:
Lol. I don't even really know what that means. Like I see the tested numbers are higher than the posted "normal range", but yeah I still don't have much a frame of reference for what said numbers actually say.

Though the Kaiser Doc pretty much just said she's gonna refer me to a Kidney Specialist so, yay...
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Wait till they do another set. Sometimes we all have fliers.
 
Jim37F said:
Lol. I don't even really know what that means. Like I see the tested numbers are higher than the posted "normal range", but yeah I still don't have much a frame of reference for what said numbers actually say.

Though the Kaiser Doc pretty much just said she's gonna refer me to a Kidney Specialist so, yay...
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You certainly want to follow up with your doc, but it's nothing to stress about. There are a bunch of potential causes that range widely in severity. The ones most likely in someone young, healthy and active are not anything to worry about.
 
Yeah, that's mostly what I figure. It's not like I'm having kidney stones or pissing blood. Wouldn't even have a clue if the piss tests didn't keep saying protein so *shrugs*.

As long as it's not something that's gonna tank an eventual attempt at a Class 1 Flight Physical when I finish losing weight, I'm good. I'm already down about 10ish pounds from the beginning of the year (I'm about 200lb right now). 185 is my primary goal, if I keep up the discipline, I think there's a halfway decent chance of losing those 15 pounds by summer. Now I just gotta start practicing my deadlifts and planks more (looks like that fancy new Army pt test is going live (finally), but hey, that should go hand in hand with losing the weight too lol)
 
Jim37F said:
Yeah, that's mostly what I figure. It's not like I'm having kidney stones or pissing blood. Wouldn't even have a clue if the piss tests didn't keep saying protein so *shrugs*.

As long as it's not something that's gonna tank an eventual attempt at a Class 1 Flight Physical when I finish losing weight, I'm good. I'm already down about 10ish pounds from the beginning of the year (I'm about 200lb right now). 185 is my primary goal, if I keep up the discipline, I think there's a halfway decent chance of losing those 15 pounds by summer. Now I just gotta start practicing my deadlifts and planks more (looks like that fancy new Army pt test is going live (finally), but hey, that should go hand in hand with losing the weight too lol)
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Drone Pilots can have a BMI of 54%.
 
Jim37F said:
Yeah, that's mostly what I figure. It's not like I'm having kidney stones or pissing blood. Wouldn't even have a clue if the piss tests didn't keep saying protein so *shrugs*.

As long as it's not something that's gonna tank an eventual attempt at a Class 1 Flight Physical when I finish losing weight, I'm good. I'm already down about 10ish pounds from the beginning of the year (I'm about 200lb right now). 185 is my primary goal, if I keep up the discipline, I think there's a halfway decent chance of losing those 15 pounds by summer. Now I just gotta start practicing my deadlifts and planks more (looks like that fancy new Army pt test is going live (finally), but hey, that should go hand in hand with losing the weight too lol)
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I have held a first class FAA flight medical for 20 years and I can assure you it will not prevent you from receiving it. The physicals are in depth but urine protein range is not looked at.
 
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Airlinepilotmedic said:
I have held a first class FAA flight medical for 20 years and I can assure you it will not prevent you from receiving it. The physicals are in depth but urine protein range is not looked at.
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Cool. Any idea if the Army's physical for WOCS/WOFT is any different than a normal Class 1? I'm already going to need an age waiver
 
Jim37F said:
Cool. Any idea if the Army's physical for WOCS/WOFT is any different than a normal Class 1? I'm already going to need an age waiver
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Honesty depending on who your AME is it’s very similar to an old school sports physical but they also do EKG and vision charts. The most important thing you can do is before you answer any of the questions on the health questionnaire talk to someone in the know. If you answer yes on certain questions you can never hold a flight medical. When I was still an active flight instructor I would always go over with my students before they went to the AME and filled out the official paperwork.
 
Jim37F said:
Cool. Any idea if the Army's physical for WOCS/WOFT is any different than a normal Class 1? I'm already going to need an age waiver
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So are we gonna have to call you Chief??
 
Well no sooner than I say what I did, I run into an airway that the airtraq didn't do great at. Honestly, I think it was largely a blade sizing error on my part, but I'm still learning the nuances of a channeled blade. I like it for the most part, but I still prefer my McGrath. There are some limitations of channeled blades I'm finding as I use it that I'm not a fan of. When everything fits and it's a clean airway they're awesome, but that's not always the case.
 
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