the 100% directionless thread

Thank you Carolina for beating Seattle.
 
I'm glad they won, but it gets old watching them dominate the first half only to disintegrate in the second half and almost lose.
 
So around 4am, I hear some bass pounding. Within a few minutes it also woke up the wifey. After walking around our apartment building for a few minutes, I figured out it was a car out front. The driver and I had a brief conversation and he quickly complied to my request to turn it down.

As I got back into bed I decided to pick up my phone to see what was going on in the world. As I turned on the screen I see about a dozen or so messages, including multiple tornado warnings, friends messaging me to take cover, etc. Seems there were multiple tornadoes all around me. Luckily everything missed us, but others were not so fortunate.

The parents of the fiancee of a local medic died, and their 7 year old daughter was flown to All Children's Hospital. They have set up a GoFundMe page to help with medical and funeral expenses.
https://www.gofundme.com/tdjpcxek

Oh, and the medic and his finacee are supposed to get married in less than two weeks.

Kind of a bummer of a day all around.
 
O.O Just got a friend request from someone who "knows (me) from EMTlife"... I don't recall ever posting anything here that would reveal my real name, nor have I ever posted pics of myself...
 
StCEMT said:
IV's were solid today....last night? Whatever the hell it was. Both. Time to go to sleep and probably do it all over again tonight.
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Amazingly enough, I've had a bit of a dry spell with IV lines. Over the past couple weeks I've only started 1 or 2 lines per shift. All but one were either 20 or 22ga and all were +N/V/D... and very dry because of it. Not easy sticks...
 
Ugh. I've written more charts today then I've done over the last few months in total. I just caught up on charts, so far we've run 11 calls, one of which was an MVC with 2 BLS patients and FIVE freaking refusals.
 
redundantbassist said:
O.O Just got a friend request from someone who "knows (me) from EMTlife"... I don't recall ever posting anything here that would reveal my real name, nor have I ever posted pics of myself...
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*raises hand*. Guilty it was me. Lol ;)
 
Shift was ok today, ran a few calls, including one where fire actually ALS'd an abdominal pain while giving 6 of morphine to a 28 yo M....bounced around posts a few times, all my ePCR narratives were given the thumbs up and my FTO actually complimented my mapping (even though I keep feeling like my routes always manage to take something that's not quite the most direct route..)...day went well, even getting an hour of double time pay.....day went well, up until the point where as I was getting ready to climb into my truck to drive home I manage to not only drop my phone, but it landed screen down not just on the concrete curb, but on the corner of said curb, promptly shattering the screen and now the screen refuses to turn on >:(
 
A CA fire department treating abdominal pain? What an age we live in!
 
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At the Beacon & Bridge Market in Houghton Lake, Mich., one gallon of gas cost just 78 cents. A Marathon Gas Station in Houghton Lake also posted a price of just 95 cents, according to GasBuddy.
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http://www.abcactionnews.com/news/michigan-becomes-first-state-to-welcome-back-gas-under-1
 
Meanwhile my current cheap gas is $2.65/gallon (and some places in DTLA are still paying north of 3 bucks as if you need any more evidence that we are being purposefully price gouged)
 
Well Geek Squad was less than helpful, basically told me that since I was paying the monthly premium for the extra insurance they couldn't help me...."Well ok, yeah I don't have the insurance, but how much does the repair cost? Won't I just pay full price without it?" "Nope, we're not allowed to so much as touch it, you gotta take it to a mom and pop store" "Fine, can you recommend one?" "Nope"..........Like really? Good thing that's not how we do business on the ambulance "Ok so you got in a bad accident...oh, you don't have insurance? um ok, call a cab to take you to the hospital, I'm not allowed to touch you without that, oh no I'm not allowed to recommend one or give you their number, have a nice day, try not to die, k thx bye"
 
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