Grady EMT:
1). What was the scariest call you've ever been on?
2). Do you like to read? Whats your fav?
3). Whats your favorite thing to eat?
4). What do you do for fun?
5). If you could have any super power, what would yours be?
1) There are two that immediately come to the front of my mind. First was a call on a cery dark stretch of interstate at 3am in pouring rain. We arrived first onscene and I positioned the Amb to block the left shoulder and 1st L lane about 100yards up-stream from the incident up against the median wall. While my partner and I were walking up to vehicle, another vehicle hyrdo-planed and struck the first car which I was about 15-20 feet from at that point. Had I been at the drivers door, the car would have pinned me between the vehicle and the median wall. One of those times where everything goes in slow motion, and after the call I called my Mom, Dad, and best friend to tell them I loved them.
The other was when treating an 10yo that had resp arrested 2nd to severe asthma attack. Her father seemed to think that our 3 minute response (5 to pt side after hiking across courtyard and into upstairs apt) was too long. He was ETOH, left the room and returned with a handgun and started waving it around while still standing in the doorway while yelling many things. I discreetly put out a help call. As per protocol on all reported pediatric arrests PD had already been started. When I put out the help call an off-duty officer working part-time at the complex came immediately to assist. He confronted the perp at gunpoint who refused to drop the weapon, then raised the weapon at the officer. The officer shot him twice in the gut, dropping him instantly. He is now serving 15years without parole for various felonys from that night.
2) Tom Clancy, John Grisham, word searches, crosswords, keeping current with new EMS trends.
3) My Grandmother is British, and technically I'm half British, anything she cooks when I can. When I can't, I have a thing for Mexican, and there is this really good Italian joint here in ATL that feels like an old Mob hangout: Alfredo's. Best Italian I've ever had anywhere.
4) Fun??? What's that? Being dad for my 11 month old God-daughter since the biological one is a dead-beat idiot(and a few other choice words), sleeping, camping, boating, shooting, paintball, driving, oh yeah, did I mention sleeping?
5) To make those that I care about as happy as I can, which I try to do every day. Nothing like x-ray vision or super-stretch or flying, what can you really use those for in real life???
I'm hungry, off to get food and think up questions for my victim....
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