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Anjel said:
I found out that my ex boyfriend died of a heroin overdose yesterday. His dad is our risk safety manager and his brother is a medic.

So sad. He was premed and about to take the MCATs.

My heart breaks for his family.
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Sorry to hear that. Things like this always do a lot of damage to family and friends.
 
This is kind of dumb, but I wanted to share as I feel like I am finally making visual progress.

This was me about 6 months ago:

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Then, I took a picture 12 days ago thinking I would compare it to something and try to see how I've come along in losing weight. I looked at the one I took and got very discouraged since I couldn't really see a change. I took another one tonight, and noticed my chin isn't as big at all, and you can actually see some of my bone structure in my face... It's a huge boost to my morale in this. Started at 311, and am currently 282 after 3 and a half weeks or so...

http://imgur.com/a/PQnNX#ooKKJ3u
 
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exodus said:
This is kind of dumb, but I wanted to share as I feel like I am finally making visual progress.

This was me about 6 months ago:

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Then, I took a picture 12 days ago thinking I would compare it to something and try to see how I've come along in losing weight. I looked at the one I took and got very discouraged since I couldn't really see a change. I took another one tonight, and noticed my chin isn't as big at all, and you can actually see some of my bone structure in my face... It's a huge boost to my morale in this. Started at 311, and am currently 282 after 3 and a half weeks or so...

http://imgur.com/a/PQnNX#ooKKJ3u
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Great job man. I can also see a little bit of weight missing. Give it about 1 more month and you will loose 20 pounds of water weight from the heat we are going to be getting this summer haha.
 
Exodus, nice work!! Keep it up. It's a notable difference. 22 pounds in 3 weeks. Give it three months and your down to 200!


Anjel said:
I found out that my ex boyfriend died of a heroin overdose yesterday. His dad is our risk safety manager and his brother is a medic.

So sad. He was premed and about to take the MCATs.

My heart breaks for his family.
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Anjel like I said earlier I'm so sorry for your loss.if you need anything you know how to get ahold of me. You've had a rough road lately.
 
DesertEMT66 said:
Our whole dispatch center is screwed up. Our dispatchers are in a completely different building (I also believe city) than the fire dispatchers (who take the 911 calls). The fire department inputs the call into the computer system which is then transmitted to our dispatch. So our dispatch gives us the call at the same time fire dispatches it to their personnel (if that makes sense).

We have a city fire department in our response area that operates differently. The city fire gets the call and then dispatches it out to the fire crews and to our dispatchers who then dispatch it out to the ambulance crews.
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All of our county divisions with the exception of Blythe city are dispatched by our comm center in the riverside north main. Idk if you have been in there, but its pretty big with a dispatcher for each division, 2 call takers, one fire dispatcher (who just copies the calls with fire and sends the call via CAD to the specific division dispatcher), then we have the comm sup. It sounds confusing but it all happens within seconds. If you listen to the fire RRU channels you can see we 99% of the time dispatch our ambulance about 3-5 seconds after fire dispatch.
 
DesertEMT66 said:
That's just you being weird haha.

Our dispatch is completely relaxed. We have a radio channel dedicated to calling the hospitals but it is never used. No seriously never used. In the 2 years I have been working I have never used it or heard of anyone that used it. The hospitals prefer for us to call them via cell phone.

To the most part we are pretty professional over the radio but there are times when we all joke around. We have a dispatcher that when she makes a mistake dispatching a call and goes to correct it she will sometimes say "whoops I lied, it's on Sunrise Ave not Indian" so the normal thing to reply with is "Medic 405 copy you lied".
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Lol its crazy how different our own company is depending on the area you work. We would get written up for doing something like that. Especially if there is a certain person on.

As for our EMS Radios we have to use those for the most part. If we landline, the nurses will say "Did you try the ems radio?" .. some people still landline but pretty much everyone uses the EMS Radio.
 
TRSpeed said:
All of our county divisions with the exception of Blythe city are dispatched by our comm center in the riverside north main. Idk if you have been in there, but its pretty big with a dispatcher for each division, 2 call takers, one fire dispatcher (who just copies the calls with fire and sends the call via CAD to the specific division dispatcher), then we have the comm sup. It sounds confusing but it all happens within seconds. If you listen to the fire RRU channels you can see we 99% of the time dispatch our ambulance about 3-5 seconds after fire dispatch.
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Yeah I've been in there. The PS dispatcher has an extra duty of listening to PSFD radio traffic for calls since they do not use the RRU channels.
 
Last day of events/IFT!!! Moving over to 911 this weekend and starting my temp truck on Wednesday! :)
 
Great, more fires in my area. The firefighters are sure earning their pay this week.
 
Is there a particular reason why TPN can't be stopped for a 2 mile transport? Just curious.

Very annoying to take someone 2 miles away on the IV pump cuz sending insists it cannot be stopped and the recieving facility will take at least an hour to order a fresh bag and restart it.
 
shfd739 said:
Is there a particular reason why TPN can't be stopped for a 2 mile transport? Just curious.

Very annoying to take someone 2 miles away on the IV pump cuz sending insists it cannot be stopped and the recieving facility will take at least an hour to order a fresh bag and restart it.
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Yes. Stopping TPN suddenly can result in hypoglycemia.
 
Next tattoo? I think yes. Now if i can figure out how to incorporate it into a sleeve.
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Chase said:
Next tattoo? I think yes. Now if i can figure out how to incorporate it into a sleeve.
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Hey, it's actually a decent looking EKG for once too except for a little bit of a prolonged QT interval. Have you seen this before?

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chaz90 said:
Hey, it's actually a decent looking EKG for once too except for a little bit of a prolonged QT interval. Have you seen this before?

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Ah that is pretty cool. I would get it without the EKG since I already have one on my wrist.
 
It's 2013. You'd think that they would have developed a plastic packaging system that wouldn't cut your mouth every.single.time (re: freezer pops). Oh, and world peace.

Yea, and speaking of Freezer Pops..
 
Just got promoted at my college for the EMT program. I'm now going to be making twice the starting pay of a paramedic in my system.
 
DesertEMT66 said:
Just got promoted at my college for the EMT program. I'm now going to be making twice the starting pay of a paramedic in my system.
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Congratulations! Do you do part time skill instruction/proctoring?

Also, what does that mean they're paying you considering Cali medic wages? $15 an hour or so? I kid, I kid :D
 
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