Sandiistaken123
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So I’m 16 years old and nearly done with training, but for the final part I had to do two ride alongs, which was fine by me. Tho within those two ride alongs I witnessed three corpses; the first was a cardiac arrest call for an old man in diapers who threw up then croaked. I was assigned to do BVMs, but I knew he was gone already. The second was an obese 18 year old who did not resuscitate, and the third was a medical alert to an old man’s condo. His neighbor came out and told us that it was a false alarm, that his dog pulled the alert, and that he was sound asleep in bed. He was right about the bed part, but he wasn’t sleeping. Given the rigor mortis and vomit it looked like he had been dead for at least three hours. The paramedics had a meeting with me after because they wanted to make sure I was ok, being a 16 year old girl and seeing so many deaths so quickly. I told them I was, but I can’t stop imagining the smell of the corpse and imagining my parents in their place, with the LUKAS strapped onto them and adjuncts stuffed in their mouths. Is this normal? How do I get over it? I really like the concept of being an EMT, I just wish I had time to get used to the deaths first…