Funny Experiences on a Job

in all honesty i never tasted the oral gluecose and dont think i want to LOL.
 
MeaganIV said:
You know, my partner leaned over and asked me the same thing..I was horrified.


He was severely diabetic... he had diabetic feet and wore adult diapers. Its wasn't a pretty site. That wasn't the grossest thing though. I'm sure everyone knows how aweful oral glucose tastes but this guy... man he must have down 3 of our tubes...

If I had more to throw up I would have...
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Damn it, I wanted to try oral-glucose, figuring it would be like sugar syrup.:glare:
 
Mercy4Angels said:
in all honesty i never tasted the oral gluecose and dont think i want to LOL.
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Hahaha oh no. You don't wanna. We have it on car and stuff and my partner and I were cleaning up and he was like "Try this." and being me I said sure...


I wanted to throw up all over the place. It was aweful.
 
Nycxice13 said:
Damn it, I wanted to try oral-glucose, figuring it would be like sugar syrup.:glare:
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yeahhhh you don't wanna try it. hahah trust me!
 
Nycxice13 said:
You know, Im gonna end up trying it anyway. Just cause Im like that.
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haha someone after my own heart. Make your own judgement on how Oral Glucose tastes, personally I love it and think its amazingly tasty... and by love it I mean for its medical purposes only and by tasty I mean disgustingly the opposite... but yeah, I would recommend tasting it at least once, just so you know forsure :P
 
TJ_EMT said:
haha someone after my own heart. Make your own judgement on how Oral Glucose tastes, personally I love it and think its amazingly tasty... and by love it I mean for its medical purposes only and by tasty I mean disgustingly the opposite... but yeah, I would recommend tasting it at least once, just so you know forsure :P
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Good man, TJ. This is why i'ma shove some of that stuff down your throat.
 
has anyone else noticed how a "Funny Experiences on a Job" has turned into "How bad does Oral Glucose Really Taste"...
 
TJ_EMT said:
has anyone else noticed how a "Funny Experiences on a Job" has turned into "How bad does Oral Glucose Really Taste"...
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LOL, partly because of me.

But yea, you can tell me that it tastes like doo doo for years, I just gotta try it. I dont know why.
 
MeaganIV said:
We have it on car and stuff
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whats on car ? Do you mean the rig ? aka ambulance. Sorry just so many names for it. In NYC its called a bus.:ph34r:
 
Mercy4Angels said:
whats on car ? Do you mean the rig ? aka ambulance. Sorry just so many names for it. In NYC its called a bus.:ph34r:
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A bus is what many of our patients SHOULD be using to get to the hospital. ;)

(Doesn't FDNY EMS actually have busses that have been converted into multiple-patient ambulances? Every company doing interfacility transports needs one! "The bus will be at your hospital at 1000, making stops at X, Y and Z nursing homes before coming back for another load if your guy isn't ready to leave right away.")
 
Mercy4Angels said:
whats on car ? Do you mean the rig ? aka ambulance. Sorry just so many names for it. In NYC its called a bus.:ph34r:
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On car means on the ambulance. We call it a lot of different things. I call it a bus and a truck.
 
nice thats what i thought....i always refer to it as the rig.

and in NYC im not really sure where the term bus came from im in jersey.
 
Depending on the rig, we may call it "rust bucket"

" i never tasted the oral gluecose "

Really? The cherry flavoured stuff isn't that bad. ;)
 
Nycxice13 said:
LOL, partly because of me.

But yea, you can tell me that it tastes like doo doo for years, I just gotta try it. I dont know why.
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Ya gotta try so you know just what those poor diabetics go through.

My instructor for EMT-I had us inject ourselve in the abdomen with saline to experience what those IDDM Pts have to do every day with their insulin.


Doesn't hurt... its just uncomfortable.
 
he had you inject yourself ? wtf ? id tell him to go first...LOL. im not injecting myself with anything i dont need. funny though. here that would be a lawsuit and a loss of his job.
 
Really? thats silly. Normal Saline is nothing. Its basically just fluid replacement. We practice IVs in the classroom too with NS. Same with IMs.

Its the only way we learn.
 
MeaganIV said:
Really? thats silly. Normal Saline is nothing. Its basically just fluid replacement. We practice IVs in the classroom too with NS. Same with IMs.

Its the only way we learn.
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ah but im only basic i cant do IV. medics sure they have to practice but unless someone with that level of training in NJ can correct me they practice during their ER rotation time. I am required to do 10 hours for basic and the medic requirment is much more than that. i agree with the silly part. things these days people will sue for anything its just gotten out of control. ambulance chasers are the worst. i vote we go back to the fifties seemed like a much more simpler time - people figured out their own problems.
 
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hahaha amen to that.


Well its the only way to learn, really. I think anyway.
 
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