Day 4-Monday, September 13, 2010-Quote of the Day…

Day 4

Monday, September 13, 2010

Quote of the Day…

Woke up right on time this morning… Past couple nights I have been having some pretty weird dreams… Oh, well.  So get up get dressed… the usual routine.  Grab Moa, get to work, right on time.  It only takes me about 15 minutes to get there.  We saw a drive-thru do-nut place we want to go to on Friday (which is our Monday.  The first day of our next set of four, and we are beginning to loathe just like a normal Monday).  Go into the bay and find Gina and we both say Happy ‘Friday’ to each other.  Since Monday is the last day of our set is now been blessed to be called Friday. : P  She is so fun.  I just love being on the truck with her and Candace.  They keep things fun and upbeat.

Walk through and say good morning to Camille.  She is the really nice girl probably about my age that works in Materials.  She is sitting on one of the cabinets with a chocolate lab puppy that was dumped at Post 41.  It was soo cute and looked so sad.  It needs a good home.  I would have taken if I had a place to put it and not had to worry about the 3 people I live with being upset.  So I see the Marlboro Man from the previous day walk in the bay and pray that he isn’t on my truck, and he wasn’t.  I did the ‘Bomb Dance’ inside!!!!  Apparently he is going to take the puppy home.  Poor dog will get the black lung and emphysema from the second hand smoke. : (

Get in the truck and there is no water in the cooler!!! Second day in a row 41 hasn’t had any water.  They are also out of cot sheets and 18 G needles.  That stinking supplier needs to get on the ball and get here!!!!  No one seems to know why we are running low on supplies.  Speaking of, I still haven’t gotten to do laundry. GRRR!!!  So I was stuck wearing Brant’s stupid, ugly, nasty, feeling weird on my skin, vented pits shirt.  And some pants Renee and Greg got me a while back, which I really like but don’t wear often because they button up, not zip.  So I feel weird and all discombobulated because there are no pockets in my shirt and so my pants pockets are hold things they usually don’t and I feel all off balance!!!!!  And out of whack because I have to think of what pocket is it in before I can grab anything. : /  Frustrating. 

Hit the streets on truck 69… THE LOVE TRUCK as Gina puts it, and get called to a 56 y/o F with chest pain and SOB.  Has a Hx of STENTS and HTN.  Nothing to terribly exciting.  Got a 20 G in her left forearm 1^st try.  Took her to Presby.  Really nice lady.

Post for a bit.  Called to 86 y/o F with SOB… I have a feeling today is gonna an SOB kinda day.  It is overcast and kinda muggy and that is when a lot of people with COPD and asthma have issues… or at least that is a trend I have noticed.  She probably weighed about as much as a basket of laundry.  Wheezes and crackles in all fields.  HX of ‘lung problems’, probably emphysema (which is a form of COPD) and HTN.  2 neb treatments, 125 of Solu-medrol and a trip to the ER, and she will be fine.  Her grandson fumigated the kitchen with Raid and didn’t tell her and it exacerbated her COPD.  She said she isn’t allowing Raid in her house again.  I think she needs to let it in more often!!!  : P

After her we were assigned to post and went to lunch at Swadley’s BBQ… YUM!!!  It was delectable!  I couldn’t even finish my plate there was so much food.  Surprisingly enough, we got to sit down in the restaurant and eat our whole meal, sit and have been posted at the Circle K down the road for about an hour or so now.  I am thinking I am gonna take a nap…… Or play my DSi, which also happened to make its way to work today.  Hmmmm, fancy that. 

So we post for about an hour or so, then called to a ‘right breathing right’ 87 y/o F.  Hx of Breast Cancer, HTN, Alcoholism (about a gallon of vodka a day, per daughter’s description), and falling.  My thought was ‘Well if I drank a gallon of vodka a day I would have a history of falling as well!!!!! Hahahaha!!!!!!!’  The house reeked of cigarette smoke too.  All of the family was in the kitchen eating chips and watching the game when we came in.  Someone had to go and get them to answer questions.  So she found in her bedroom floor incontinent of urine in half of her pajamas… her bottom half had somehow found its way to her ankles… huh.  She has pinpoint pupils, systolic of about 200, decerebrate posturing, and agonal breathing.  No one has spoken to her since Saturday evening.  This is not good. 

So FD got her line started and had her pretty well packaged to go.  We were on the clear other side of town when we got the call and it took us a good 20 minutes going full code to get there.  Load her up and hit the road.  The hospital is a good half hour away so we run hot into the hospital and mind you the system is at level zero (no available trucks on the streets).  Everyone is busy!!!! And the daughter who is riding shotgun is laughing because her husband and the pastor at their church are both following us in with their flashers on!!!!!! Running red lights and stop signs through a busy part of town during rush hour!!!!!!!!!!!!  I wanted one of them to get hit or pulled over just for the poetic justice of it all.  The family following was told before we left not to follow the ambulance through red lights, if we were going hot.  And to top it off they are all laughing and thinking this is the greatest thing to happen since sliced bread!!!!!!! The crew and I are pissed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  So we drop her at Mercy and as we are the PT out of the back of the rig the daughter gets choked up.  She also drags like 3 people through the ambulance entrance.  Transfer care and the family is out leaning against the nurse’s station laughing and joking with not a care in the world.  Whatever…

So I go and help Gina with cleaning out the rig.  It smelt AWFUL!!!!!  Worse than Homeless CHF’er.  And we hear a call to 2 rigs and the bird.  Anaphylaxis turned full arrest.  Dispatch put the bird on standby.  The first rig to respond said drop her down and dispatch asked does the PT have ROSC.  Medic-Nope still in arrest. 

QUOTE OF THE DAY!!!!!!!!!

Dispatch- The bird doesn’t fly dead people.

I fell out of my chair laughing!!!!!  They sent two rigs because the first had something go wrong with it, then it magically fixed itself when it came across the radio as a full code… hmmm… So medic calls again for the bird.  Dispatch has the bird land and tells medic you can fight it out with them when they get there.  Now we are posting on the ‘worst part of town’ according to Gina. My thoughts are “Have you been outside near Alexander Rd and Roseland Park or in the San Jacinto Mall parking lot or in the south side of Houston after dark in Baytown/Houston??  This place is the Ritz compared to that.”  We laughed.  Posted…. Everyone seems to be busy and running everywhere but us today.  Gaaahahah.

So it is now 10:15 and there has been a shooting, robbery, domestic with injuries, and a bar fight go out… and I am still sitting at post!!!!!  I am getting bored and jealous. So I am going to watch The Back-Up Plan on my Lappy. : P  Suck on that most boring post in OKC…  and that was it for the last shift of my first set.  Until Gina and Candace got upset because I was sitting in the back watching a movie and they weren’t invited.  I felt bad for not even thinking to ask them to join.  I will think of them next time.