the 100% directionless thread

There may or may not be a 14 day corona-cation in my future. All depends on if a certain individual tests positive.
 
Not sure if it's wise to risk poking the bear, but I would like to clarify, contrary to a recent and since deleted statement in this thread, that I have never made a suicide attempt. Not that it would be shameful if I had *cough cough,* but I don't like misinformation being spread about me.
 
Seirende said:
Not sure if it's wise to risk poking the bear, but I would like to clarify, contrary to a recent and since deleted statement in this thread, that I have never made a suicide attempt. Not that it would be shameful if I had *cough cough,* but I don't like misinformation being spread about me.
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Ain’t worth the fight. You concentrate on doing you and screw everyone else to be honest. We all got our issues and you’ve had no problems with putting yours out there. It may be part of your own internal therapy to write it out like you have. If it works for you keep it up. We all have our demons and sometimes just posting it and reading what others say may help or even just writing it out on a journal helps. I’ve been wanting to visit my niece who was born in March but until I had texted a buddy about not being able to come back to Los Angeles in a little over a week from now did it dawn on me how much a risk it would be for me to get my niece or my mother or sister sick with Covid from a passing contact while traveling from Georgia.
 
But in other news I signed up for the IA Med class and am going to go for a CC paramedic cert to try and get a backup slot at work on a ALS intercept vehicle. Got some cool stuff coming up at work and won’t hurt to have the cert regardless and I’ve always loved more education and training. I’m glad I still love this career after 17 years, especially when I’ve got at least 14 more to go before I can retire.
 
I'm getting back into platelet/plasma donation; Fridays are a convenient day for me, so it happens that I'm scheduled to donate both Christmas and New Year's. Gonna see if I can make the Christmas donation into a sister date. My diastolic BP was too high last time I attempted a donation :( Next time I won't go straight from work lol.
 
Thanks @luke_31 . Honestly I'm just trying to muddle my way through life and work on recovery and I deeply appreciate patience and understanding
 
great news. a friend messaged us about a house in our general area that was tucked away and was going to be for rent. We drove by and saw a sign. We called and left a message, without much hope as houses like this are snapped up in hours. The owner called me back this morning and we did the deal, contingent on our walkthrough and credit check.

its amazing because my wife had said several times that the house is perfect and “that’s the kind of place we need to find”. I’m still in shock that we stumbled across it like an hour after the for rent sign was put up.

Even better, the owner of the house has no problem with a dog and said, if you like it and want to buy it down the road, we‘ll talk.
 
Had a 3 alarm warehouse fire last night. Reports if people trapped, heavy smoke and fire showing...
We show up tail end of the initial alarm, and Chief has us standby for assignment...
Pretty sure he forgot about us because 2nd alarm companies were getting assignments before us lol.
The trapped victims were rescued safely, and we ended up helping carry them away from the fireground to the ambulances so that was something at least (something like 3 or 4 people went to the hospital with smoke inhalation)(a dog and cat were also successfully rescued, apparently there was a living space in a loft above the warehouse itself).
Finally an additional BC showed up, took a Division and had us go in and relieve an Emgine who was exhausting their SCBA bottles. Pull their hose line to the top of a staircase, if we had 5 extra feet of hose we coulda made the turn and hit a burning spot real easy, but had to go grab an extra 50ft length of hose first heh. So all our nozzle time was Hotspot extingushments. But hey, at least I got to play with our TIC to find them...

Eventually got to sleep around 2am, only for a 4am medical call, so we were definitely dragging just a bit by shift change lol

Oh well, at least today also happens to be the start of our 4 day
 
When the cops are on your ring doorbell and all you hear in the background is every smoke detector going off in the background. Luckily I keep a key hidden. Apparently the batteries I just changed out last month are already dead. Oh and I’m on day I don’t know something-teen. Nice to know my home ain’t burning down. How ironic would that be.
 
NomadicMedic said:
great news. a friend messaged us about a house in our general area that was tucked away and was going to be for rent. We drove by and saw a sign. We called and left a message, without much hope as houses like this are snapped up in hours. The owner called me back this morning and we did the deal, contingent on our walkthrough and credit check.

its amazing because my wife had said several times that the house is perfect and “that’s the kind of place we need to find”. I’m still in shock that we stumbled across it like an hour after the for rent sign was put up.

Even better, the owner of the house has no problem with a dog and said, if you like it and want to buy it down the road, we‘ll talk.
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Better buy a lottery ticket before that luck runs out.

Congrats
 
Is this gonna become fpclife.com? Haha, a lot of taking IA Med and FP-C it looks like? I am just finishing IA Med Flight Medical Provider. I think they did a decent job teaching AGB in the first module, normal lab values, but the rest of it is incomplete. Like you'll finish their video and then it'll ask you questions that weren't in the video or questions that don't make sense like the vent question I posted. Probably a good idea to have other resources as well.

Bummer about missing the discount. I literally paid for the test Friday. I am waiting for instructions (to schedule) via e-mail I think?
 
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Watching ski patrol him and haw for 20 minutes on a helicopter and then just snow-mobile the guy out on the access road...oof. And shutting down both lifts out of here to boot.

My “rule” when I used to fly someone every other set was always to be moving towards an LZ. We’d scoop sick people up all the time and then meet the helicopter somewhere on the way so that if things changed, you didn’t waste 20 minutes just sitting there.
 
Aprz said:
I am waiting for instructions (to schedule) via e-mail I think?
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They have to review, then “approve” your application. It usually takes 3-5 business days, then you can find a Prometrics testing center closest to you to go and take your exam.
 
HFD is unique for two reasons. 1st is being the only Fire Department in the US founded by a reigning Monarch (King Kamehameha III in 1850, also future King David Kalākaua was known to serve as an active Fireman on Engine 4 in the 1860s).
The Second being Honolulu FD is the only Fire Department who has Members awarded with the Military's Purple Heart for casualties sustained during firefighting operations during the Pearl Harbor raid
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Three Honolulu Fire Department (HFD) Fire Fighters (FF) made the ultimate sacrifice by fighting fires and responding during the surprise December 7, 1941 attack. Engine 6 was the first to arrive at the Hickam Field, joined by Engines 1 and 4 under a mutual aid agreement with the Federal Fire Department.
The FFs set up for fire fighting when they learned that during the first wave of the attack, a bomb struck the airfield’s water main leaving all the hydrants out of service. The FFs were stretching hose lines, positioning rigs, and fighting fires, as the second wave of attack planes appeared overhead. For 15 minutes they endured a barrage of bullets and bombs. When the enemy fire finally stopped, one member of each company, Captains John Carreira and Thomas Macy and Hoseman Harry Tuck Lee Pang, was lifeless. Along with the casualties, six others were wounded: Lieutenant Frederick Kealoha, Hosemen George Correa, John A. Gilman, Moses Kalilikane, Patrick J. McCabe, and Solomon H. Naauao, Jr.
The entire HFD showed extraordinary courage, fortitude, and professionalism during the attacks that Sunday morning and the days afterwards. The HFD's nine FFs were the first and only civilians to receive the award and the honor.
 
So yesterday was interesting. We had a psych transport. Guy was voluntary and by the time we got to pick him up from the hospital he had been waiting for 15 hours. The ride to the behavioral health center was a two hour drive. We get to the center and take him out of the ambulance. He unbuckles himself and starts smoking so we tell him that he can’t do that and we could lose our jobs. He quickly finished the cigarette and gets back on the stretcher and lets us belt him back in. Get to the main entrance and then are told to use the ambulance entrance right next to the main entrance, as we are taking him to the ambulance entrance, he unbuckled himself and said “you know what I’m done, I don’t want this. I’m out” we talked to him and made sure that he knew what that meant. He understood and was going to sign a RMA then decided not to sign it. We tell the staff and they go running off in the opposite direction even though we told them that he was voluntary. They come back after realizing that we didn’t tell them what direction he went. We reminded them that he was voluntary. They went “oh ok” we called dispatch and our ODS. ODS said that we did everything by the book. So that was an interesting end to my day.
 
I got approved to take the FP-C. It says I have a year to do it / pick a date. I think I am going to wait like 2-3 weeks at least just to get some last minute study done on stuff that I am weak on. On Friday, I take NRP. I already finished online portion, which I thought the eSim was great! I wish ACLS, PALS, ITLS/PHTLS had that. I feel like in class, instructors tend to not judge you based on the book or give you great feedback. Like it is feedback from a machine so it is not judgemental or personal, and the machine is also blunt about the things you messed up on. I liked the eSim thing. I do not need FP-C to apply for flight, but I do need NRP. I know people who got hired without it, but again, just trying to come in strong to my flight interviews when I start applying. I am so excited to be making progress towards flight paramedic finally rather than just going through the motions of being a ground paramedic. I feel like it is within reach. The knowledge I am learning for FP-C test is also awesome and stuff I never knew, thought of, or forgot from paramedic school.
 
Let's keep the FP-C conversations in the HEMS forum please.
 
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