Saturday, February 12, 2005

Lazy or boring?

Here's my dilemma – either I'm a lazy blogger, or I'm a really boring mofo. Neither one is particularly appealing. I would like to think that I'm neither lazy nor boring, but I won't say anything one way or another as I think my friends would have a field day with that one.

So let's analyze my week...

Work – well – nothing ever happens there. I sit in a cube. I spend time on conference calls with my phone on mute while doing an MST3K style commentary.

On the other hand, this week at the fire station, I was running on the EMS side instead of firefighting. I'm going to be the driver on Thursdays so I need to spend some more time with that side of the house.

I got to help transport a 1 yr old boy to the hospital who had a 103.4 fever and had had some pretty nasty seizures. And on Friday night I was working with a 22 yr old Indian woman who swallowed approx 26 prescription sleeping pills on purpose after a 'minor tiff' with her husband. That call was pretty freaky. Not only that, she of course vomited en masse. However, being the good EMS low ranking peon that I am, I turned her towards me instead of the Rescue Department's Chief. Fortunately it was 99% water (imagine regurgitated mango lassi!!) so it didn't smell too bad. Plus I managed to dodge the flow while keeping her pulse-ox and the ABP on her and more importantly, dry.

Not bad for a n00b.

Know I know I was told to keep a spare uniform in my car when I run EMS. Gotta admit, it feels good being right there to really help someone, no matter how messed up the situation is.

So back to the original question...

Lazy? sure. Boring, probably. But at least's I'm a boring lazy guy who works his non-existent ass off doing some really cool stuff.

Time for some ZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.....

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