I LOVE My job!!

[MedicPrincess]

What else can I say?

My truck is constantly in the shop. We get it back, its not back for 48 hours before its back in the shop for at least a month getting engine repairs. We swapped back into it on Thursday. I worked again on yesterday.

So were responding delta response for a 72 yo F patient c/o CP, difficulty breathing- HX of stent placement x 2 wks ago.

Suddenly theres a noise....kind of a duhduhduhduhduhddddddduuuuddddddddd...clunk....duddududududud...

After a multitude of swear words from me and my partner with her hands over her ears going "I don't hear nothing, I don't smell nothing, You don't hear anything do you?"

Noise stops....YEA!!!!...right???....Well see for your self...

This time...Frank, our tow truck driver, who by the way sent my partner and I a CHRISTMAS CARD!!!...Frank says "You girls blowed this head good!"

Okay...all jokes aside....YOU HAVE TO FREAKING BE KIDDING ME!!!!

And we've swapped again.

 

[KEVD18]

that would be a nice rig if yall would stop breaking the damn thing!!!

(insert tongue in cheek mumbled comment about women and machinery)
(get smacked for above comment)
(make another comment about women drivers, but in a lower voice)
(get smacked again)

 

[Epi-do]

:lol: I am sorry, but that is funny! When you are on a first name basis with the tow truck driver and he includes you on his Christmas card list, you are spending way to much time together. At least you didn't have the patient on board yet.

Hey, it could have always been worse....at least it didn't spontaniously burst into flames.

It is a nice looking truck. Too bad it doesn't run better. Hopefully this will be the last repair it needs for a really long time.

 

[FutureFlightMedic]

You'd NEVER guess by looking at that it's a peice of cr*p.... Seriously, though Princess-sorry your ride didn't work out, but I always look forward to the great stories you post on the forum! You are truly entertaining....Next year, maybe you and your partner should get Frank a fruitcake for all the towing he does for you hehee

 

[fm_emt]

My god, why doesn't the county do something about that? Doesn't Florida have a "Lemon Law" or something?

That's a danger to the public! Either that, or one of y'all has some baaaaad mojo going on.

 

[MedicPrincess]

At least you didn't have the patient on board yet.

Oh due to the dispatch information we continued to the scene. At least the patient could be receiving treatment while another rig had to come for transport.

It is a nice looking truck.

Of course its a nice looking truck....Its not on the road enough to not be.

As for the bad mojo....I am thinking its that. Last time, two weeks ago that is, we swapped we were given a back up truck that had not had a single problem. It was another crews truck and they got a new one because they had the most miles on it when the new rigs arrived. So they hadn't had to swap in over a year. No problems.

We get in it, alls good. Thats on B shift. The A-shift crew had call for another unit to transport their patient while they waited on the tow truck. They got on scene of a seziure patient and when they put it in park, it made a noise and they lost their transmission fluid onto the ground.

I have decided....We wash our truck every shift. We make sure it properly stocked. The O2 is always good. In the summers we spend extra time getting the love bugs that are splattered on it removed.

The crew that had to come get our patient this time, admittedly doesn't wash theirs, check their fluids, and barely stocks it. And they NEVER swap!!

Its gotta be the washing it. I am washing away the dirt that is holding it together. I need to stop.

 

[Airwaygoddess]

Naw, I think it knows you are going thru paramedic school! the tow truck driver sounds like a doll!! ^_^

 

[Jon]

So... love bugs are a Florida thing, too... I though they were a Louisana thing.


As for washing the car.. a friend once had a bumper sticker on their car "Do Not Wash... Vehicle Undergoing Scientific Dirt Study"

 

[jeepmedic]

Dirt is holding the other truck together. :lol:

 

[natrab]

As a professional ambulance killer, I feel your pain. I know several tow truck drivers on a first name basis and at this point I just call them myself when I kill another rig then I let the Sup. know that another one fell victim to me. I've broken steering fluid lines, brake lines (on the freeway going 80mph....that was a fun one), two transmissions, one oil line, and once cracked the head on a brand new ford type III. Thankfully I have better luck with patients.