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Yup a lose VGA cable will cause that
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I need to vent about a call today and I figure I'd rather put it here than start a new thread, etc. So here goes:
My partner(Medic) and I(EMT) are dispatched to a local assisted living facility for a LOL who fell and is complaining of left hip pain. She's CAOx3 and still on the floor. We arrive, assess, and transport ALS due to suspected pelvic fx(later confirmed by ED staff), all with minimal pain to the pt. The pt wishes to go to an out of area hospital where her family is meeting her so we have a ~30 minute drive to get there. Throughout the trip she reports 0/10 pain due to not being provoked. We arrive at the ED and bring the pt inside. This is where I need to vent. The ED nurse was clearly having a bad day because she directed us to "the only bed without a body in it". As we are preparing to transfer her over to the bed, the nurse brushes past me to take the far side position. My partner and I are both strong males and she is a smaller female, so I offer to take the far side if she'll guide the feet/injured leg. She says "I got it" then hastily says 1,2,3 before yanking the pt violently off the stretcher and on to the bed, which causes our pt to scream loudly and begin to cry. The nurse then states, in front of the fully oriented pt, "*sigh* this should be fun...". At which point my partner pulls me out of the room because he could see the look on my face and knew I was about to cause a scene.
Seriously, wtf?? I get she may have been having a rough day but still, my partner and I managed to get her from the ground, to our stretcher, to the ED with almost no pain just by being conscientious. In 30 seconds this nurse ruined what would have been a well executed call.
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My partner(Medic) and I(EMT) are dispatched to a local assisted living facility for a LOL who fell and is complaining of left hip pain. She's CAOx3 and still on the floor. We arrive, assess, and transport ALS due to suspected pelvic fx(later confirmed by ED staff), all with minimal pain to the pt. The pt wishes to go to an out of area hospital where her family is meeting her so we have a ~30 minute drive to get there. Throughout the trip she reports 0/10 pain due to not being provoked. We arrive at the ED and bring the pt inside. This is where I need to vent. The ED nurse was clearly having a bad day because she directed us to "the only bed without a body in it". As we are preparing to transfer her over to the bed, the nurse brushes past me to take the far side position. My partner and I are both strong males and she is a smaller female, so I offer to take the far side if she'll guide the feet/injured leg. She says "I got it" then hastily says 1,2,3 before yanking the pt violently off the stretcher and on to the bed, which causes our pt to scream loudly and begin to cry. The nurse then states, in front of the fully oriented pt, "*sigh* this should be fun...". At which point my partner pulls me out of the room because he could see the look on my face and knew I was about to cause a scene.
Seriously, wtf?? I get she may have been having a rough day but still, my partner and I managed to get her from the ground, to our stretcher, to the ED with almost no pain just by being conscientious. In 30 seconds this nurse ruined what would have been a well executed call.
End rant.
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Dude, were you listening in on one of the tech support calls I took today? :unsure:
JPINFV
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Haha... I've had it happen enough times to my laptop (I dual screen at home), and it was the first thing I thought of. Sometimes I wonder how certain military aircraft are still flying.
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Turn her in.
bigbaldguy
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Had a guy on my plane today who was in WWII! The guy actually fought Nazis. I kept walking up to my co workers poking them in the chest and saying "hey that guy fought Nazis, what have you done with your life" 
can't believe I got to shake the hand of guy who fought Nazis.
Also the guy has the ultimate topper.
Yeah I took a twelve point buck with pocket knife Tuesday.
I fought Nazis.
I drive a Maserati.
I fought Nazis.
I bench press 340.
I
fought
Nazis.
can't believe I got to shake the hand of guy who fought Nazis.Also the guy has the ultimate topper.
Yeah I took a twelve point buck with pocket knife Tuesday.
I fought Nazis.
I drive a Maserati.
I fought Nazis.
I bench press 340.
I
fought
Nazis.
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you're flying again, BBG? Awesome. And awesome story, too!
abckidsmom
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You drive a Maserati?
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Jambi
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I had the power cable not plugged in talk with my mother a few months ago. Lets just say that I started my life in the computer business, and I got out of it for a reason...:rofl:
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Had a guy on my plane today who was in WWII! The guy actually fought Nazis. I kept walking up to my co workers poking them in the chest and saying "hey that guy fought Nazis, what have you done with your life"
Also the guy has the ultimate topper.
Yeah I took a twelve point buck with pocket knife Tuesday.
I fought Nazis.
I drive a Maserati.
I fought Nazis.
I bench press 340.
I
fought
Nazis.
Had a WWII patient a few years back with chest pain. I asked the standard pain scale questions, and I said, "imagine being shot is a 10/10." He looked at me, laughed, and said, "I don't need to imagine. Those Nazi Bast***s shot me twice." He was a cool dude, and luckily is turned out to be angina.
I almost asked him to rate the pain from 1 to 8mm Mauser, but the filter in my head kicked in just in time.
bigbaldguy
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Meeting the guy just made my day. Kind of puts it all in perspective. Yeah I'm back in the skies. Trying to ease back into it. I'm still having some issues pain wise so I'm trying not to stray too far from home.
That would be the biggest waste of a Maserati in the history of wasted cars. I'd be "that guy" who drives a 400 horse power car 15 miles an hour under the speed limit in the far right lane.
That's what the guy that was fighting the Nazis drives
I doubt it but it should be. The guy had a handshake like a mill press. I'm pretty sure I winced when I shook his hand and I probably failed the macho test, but you know what? I got no problem failing the macho test against a guy that fought goddamn nazis
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The Marines at Camp Pendleton are doing artillery drills tonight. It bugs some people, but I like it.
JPINFV
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My Mother is one of those people who downloads anything shiney and always ends up with several random toolbars slowing her computer down (as well as a homepage set to "my web search"). I was at my parent's house over the weekend, pulled off the browser add-ons (thank God I finally broke her from AOL for Firefox), deleted a few files, set Malwarebytes to work. I go take a shower and what's the first thing she does? She gets on the computer and cancels my scan.
GRRRR!
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The Marines at Camp Pendleton are doing artillery drills tonight. It bugs some people, but I like it.
When the Army does it near here, it vibrates the whole house, even though their target area is 15 miles away.
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Working in IT and tech support, I've come to the conclusion that some people should not be given anything more technologically complicated than an Etch-a-Sketch or a Crayon.
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That's awesome BBG. I always love meeting those guys. I think I posted it on here already, but my dad, who is retired Navy, just got to award the Bronze Star to a Navy Corpsman from the 6th Naval Beach Battlion, in 1944, they were attached to the 16th RCT, 1st ID landing at Omaha Beach in Normandy. Man that guy has some stories. Wounded by machine gun fire and a Nazi 88 round, he said it was 12 hours before he could really get off his belly. At one point, he was holding pressure on an artery with one hand and firing his M1 Carbine with the other hand.
Those guys are amazing. Calling them the Greatest Generation is an understatement. I'd like to see 16-19 year olds, by the hundreds of thousands flock to recruiters to sign up today. Thousands of guys lied or fast talked their way in at 16 and 17 years old! You don't see that kind your people any more.
And they are dying, thousands a day. More WWII vets die every day today than were killed a day fighting in the war. I talk to them every chance I get. I regret the times I have not gotten to talk to my grandad about his time in the war. He was in the Pacific from 1942 through 1945. And now he's had a stroke and so so so much history and stories of sacrifice are locked up inside him.
I think you realize it, but we need to learn from these guys. They are an amazing, critical part of our history.
Those guys are amazing. Calling them the Greatest Generation is an understatement. I'd like to see 16-19 year olds, by the hundreds of thousands flock to recruiters to sign up today. Thousands of guys lied or fast talked their way in at 16 and 17 years old! You don't see that kind your people any more.
And they are dying, thousands a day. More WWII vets die every day today than were killed a day fighting in the war. I talk to them every chance I get. I regret the times I have not gotten to talk to my grandad about his time in the war. He was in the Pacific from 1942 through 1945. And now he's had a stroke and so so so much history and stories of sacrifice are locked up inside him.
I think you realize it, but we need to learn from these guys. They are an amazing, critical part of our history.
bigbaldguy
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I always make it a point to go up to guys wearing retired military caps and shake their hand. I think this was my first WWII veteran though. It just occurred to me as I was shaking his hand that the guy had honest to god fought nazis. I grew up with Indiana jones and wolfenstine but this guy was a true part of history. Very humbling.
That's not to take anything away from other vets I appreciate them all but wow this one just kind of blew me away.
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Yakima Firing Range?