the 100% directionless thread

foxfire said:
That stuff is the best when it comes to sunburns.
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My vote would be for massive gobs of fresh aloe Vera gel but it's prob a little tough to get in your part of the country.
 
bigbaldguy said:
My vote would be for massive gobs of fresh aloe Vera gel but it's prob a little tough to get in your part of the country.
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Aloe is good, but I hate how it dries to the skin and makes a really weird texture. But I do use it on occasion when I have a live aloe plant floating about the house.
Vinegar takes to sting right out, and helps it stay out. Never had that kind of success with aloe. But maybe That is Just me.^_^
 
I have a system going.

Motrin

Then vinegar..

Wait 30 min.

Lidocaine spray..wait ten minutes...then aloe gel.

The aloe helps with the stiffness
 
Well, I've been buried up to my armpits since noon in my 7.3 Liter. Long story short I either need new valves or new piston rings. :-S Not cool at all. I was hoping it would just be injectors. :-( *cry
 
The problem of 'ramping' or delays at hospital offloading to hospital beds are getting pretty bad here.

Spend 2.5 hours at a major hospital early this AM with a c-collared pt who had been assaulted, knocked out with possible broken nose. Spent 2.5 hours convincing him not to leave (he had an early flight lol), we wheeled him to the CT scanner on our stretcher, watched the scan, wheeled him back to the hall and wanted 2 hours for the doctors to interpret his CT, and clear C-spine. He then left, not having used a hospital bed at all.

During this time there were multiple other crews ramped, with a fatal motorcycle accident 2 km away and no-one available with 20kms to respond.^_^:sad::glare:
 
So, I've a quandary. My new job has extended a conditional offer based on my background check. There is nothing in my background that would prevent me from this job.

I agreed to be out of my current place on July 1.

The job is on the other side of the country, and the background check hasn't been completed yet.

Do I start driving on the 1st and move, knowing that my BG is clean and I'll be offered the job officially as soon as it's done, or do I try and wait until it's official and then drive 5 days.

What are the thoughts of the group?
 
Some friends of mine were at the detroit fireworks tonight.

2 kids.. 14 and 16yr olds were shot.

And there are reports of a paramedic being stabbed.

The gunfire is confirmed by local news.

I have yet to hear about the medic. I hope all is ok.
 
Was born in Seattle, Wa but moved to montana when I was very young been around Montana and just moved home. Missed the mountains to much had to come home for awhile but hope to move before the winter cant stand the bitter cold.. LOl ;)
 
Ah, Auckland - the Seattle of New Zealand: it rains a lot (its winter!) and we have a pointy attraction that is overpriced.
 
I can't stand the snow and bitter cold would take the rain anyday but stuck somewhere in montana my husband is a cop n will soon be an emt thinking about moving to Billings MT this fall
 
n7lxi said:
So, I've a quandary. My new job has extended a conditional offer based on my background check. There is nothing in my background that would prevent me from this job.

I agreed to be out of my current place on July 1.

The job is on the other side of the country, and the background check hasn't been completed yet.

Do I start driving on the 1st and move, knowing that my BG is clean and I'll be offered the job officially as soon as it's done, or do I try and wait until it's official and then drive 5 days.

What are the thoughts of the group?
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I vote for heading out. You have to leave your place anyway.
 
the_negro_puppy said:
The problem of 'ramping' or delays at hospital offloading to hospital beds are getting pretty bad....

During this time there were multiple other crews ramped, with a fatal motorcycle accident 2 km away and no-one available with 20kms to respond.^_^:sad::glare:
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This phenomenon you speak of is foreign to Brown, we offload straight away, if they can't find a bed for the patient they stay in the hallway on a hospital gurney, the Ambulance crew don't wait with them once the hospital has put them into the system.

The only time Ambulance Officers wait with the patient is for the triage nurse to accept them into the system and at worst that might be ... you know, ten-fifteen minutes at worst.

Hell Brown has put people onto a hospital gurney from the stretcher, hung up their bag of fluid, written the time the bag was started on it, handed in the PRF and left.

And as for that RTA, shucks, what was Dr Rashford doing, send him? :D
 
MrBrown said:
Ah, Auckland - the Seattle of New Zealand: it rains a lot (its winter!) and we have a pointy attraction that is overpriced.
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So what is it like there in the summer time looking for somewhere warm when it gets to cold told hubby that we need to plan a vacation where its warm sunny and has beaches.. oh and umbrellas in our drinks :o ;)
 
MrBrown said:
This phenomenon you speak of is foreign to Brown, we offload straight away, if they can't find a bed for the patient they stay in the hallway on a hospital gurney, the Ambulance crew don't wait with them once the hospital has put them into the system.

The only time Ambulance Officers wait with the patient is for the triage nurse to accept them into the system and at worst that might be ... you know, ten-fifteen minutes at worst.

Hell Brown has put people onto a hospital gurney from the stretcher, hung up their bag of fluid, written the time the bag was started on it, handed in the PRF and left.

And as for that RTA, shucks, what was Dr Rashford doing, send him? :D
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We've gone from the gurney to the hospital waiting room. And if the patient has an IV already started we will sometimes put them in a chair inside the ER with an IV pole. Longest I've had to wait for something to do with the patient is 20 mins.
 
firefite said:
We've gone from the gurney to the hospital waiting room. And if the patient has an IV already started we will sometimes put them in a chair inside the ER with an IV pole. Longest I've had to wait for something to do with the patient is 20 mins.
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The longest i've spent is 4 hours with the one patient. Oncology had accepted her, so the ED staff decided to get us to babysit her, so she wouldn't take up an ED bed, while we wait 4 hours for oncology to clear a bed in their ward.
 
the_negro_puppy said:
The longest I've spent is 4 hours with the one patient. Oncology had accepted her, so the ED staff decided to get us to babysit her, so she wouldn't take up an ED bed, while we wait 4 hours for oncology to clear a bed in their ward.
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I have you beat on this one. Charity hospital in New Orleans 1989. 0500 arrived at station to begin shift at 0530. Informed the crew we are to give relief is en route to Charity w/non urgent GSW. (Pt shot in left buttock. Grazing wound) Check stock, drug box, etc and go 10-8. Arrive at Charity approximate 0540. Nine other units sitting on the wall ahead of me. Informed that my new PT is not priority and they will get to us when they can. 1730 I hear night crew go 10-8 en route to my location. 1750 PT finally admitted to triage by hospital staff. Policy changed the next day that states a supervisor will take over holding up the wall with PT after one hour wait time.
 
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