emtashleyb
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Ive been an emtb since I was 16. Of course right out of the gate I got a few calls that shook me up. (Im really for they need to make the age requiremrnt higher at 16 I had no idea what I was getting into and in no way could have been prepared for what I saw). The one that weighed most on my mind heavy for a long time was a 3 year old cardiac arrest. All we knew was that the kid had been ladi down on the couch for a nap and stopped breathing. So when they brought him out I opened his airway with the head tilt chin lift, no one supected any trauma until we cut off his clothes. The mother was denying trauma involved. Well we come to find out he had been thrown down the basement steps twice and had been beating the kid all of his short life. The paramedic tore me a new one for opening his airway wrong and told me I might have caused his death and I should just go back to being a stupid teeny bopper. For the longest time I did blame myself but I have done some counsiling and I know from all the details now there is no way I could have done it the boy was dead when we got there.
Anyway I ended up being a stupid teenager putting it on the back burner while I got pregnant, married and moving to a different state. Ive been playing around with the idea of going back to being an emt. Ive even joined the local volunteer station where we are.
Im extremely nervous. Evertyime I rode I had someone there with me every step of the way I was still a student afterall. Im just nervous about the fact I will be acting alone and possiably having to help someone who is a student out. Its been a good 3 1/2 years since Ive been on an ambo. I know I can handle whats thrown at me Im just still extremely nervous. I think its more of the possibility of leading someone if I have to more than just doing it myself. Any suggestions?
Anyway I ended up being a stupid teenager putting it on the back burner while I got pregnant, married and moving to a different state. Ive been playing around with the idea of going back to being an emt. Ive even joined the local volunteer station where we are.
Im extremely nervous. Evertyime I rode I had someone there with me every step of the way I was still a student afterall. Im just nervous about the fact I will be acting alone and possiably having to help someone who is a student out. Its been a good 3 1/2 years since Ive been on an ambo. I know I can handle whats thrown at me Im just still extremely nervous. I think its more of the possibility of leading someone if I have to more than just doing it myself. Any suggestions?