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Comment by Fabulous Heather Days of Summer on December 18, 2011 at 7:16pm

VERY CUTE

NAUGHTY CHRIS KRINGLE

VERY CUTE

 

GOOD JOB !!!

Way to get back in the game !!!

Two cheers from the West Coast !!!

Comment by Chris Moyer on December 18, 2011 at 7:01pm

How this Naughty Christmas Elf Heather?

Comment by Fabulous Heather Days of Summer on December 18, 2011 at 1:45pm

OMG OMG OMG 

SO EXCITED

 

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JUMPING UP & DOWN WITH

GLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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So VERY PROUD of you Naughty Evilicious Capt Grinch - Way to embrace the festive spirit and go ALL IN !!!!

 

You make me so proud - you bring tears to my eyes : ) 

 

 

scampers back to my chores now ...

back to making a million loaves of pumpkin bread...

with a VERY MERRY song in my heart

Comment by Brian J. on December 18, 2011 at 12:13pm

Whaats up everyone? Not much here. Calls are few and far between lately, not that I'm complaining, it's nice being able to sleep at night!! Still gotta get my Christmas shopping done sometime this week.

Be safe!!

Comment by Fabulous Heather Days of Summer on December 18, 2011 at 11:03am

So Sir Wicked Evilicious - what EXACTLY did you get to do?   Anything additional you wanted to do, but the senior EMTs wouldn't let you? or other things that were done that were beyond your scope of practice that were done?  and of course - what did you learn???

 

I remember my most bizarre (serious) stomach pain - little old lady sweet as could be chatting away to me as I am examining her.... when I palpated her abdomen it was hard as a rock - which was a new experience for me - brought a whole new meaning to rigidity - her entire abdomen (traditionally soft) was so firm, there was no palpation just stroke the surface : (  I said to her, how long has your tummy been like this - she said one week - and I asked about pain - and she said I am use to it - I have been having abdominal pain for months - and mentioned it to no one - and had no family that ever visited her - to notice that she was the color of ash...

 

we discussed black stools which she said she had for "a while" but the reason she called 911 was she had not pooped in 3 days and NOW her tummy hurt so bad she could hardly move..

 

sweet little lady chit-chatting away with me... otherwise healthy external body... died in the ER 3 hours later  :'-(

 

I felt horrible as I could/should have done something more - thank God the senior EMTs were there to explain the series of events meant that she had been bleeding internally for a long time - and the hardness was the large part of her blood volume in her abdomen - and her body was so flooded with GI debris and infection - she succumbed to the infection... and my time with her was more about providing comfort to her during a time of great pain - just prior to her death - not really about curative care, as she was severely compromised... and they told me I did a good job comforting her and providing basic care and transport (which I suspected from her death coloring anyway).

 

I appreciated them taking the time to explain it more epansively to me - it is so different to experience it in real-life, compared to a book - so make sure to ask questions as patient issues arise - many who have gone before us have "seen it all" it seems - and they can relieve a lot of the stress from the care-provider perspective

Comment by Ernie Scheinert on December 18, 2011 at 9:27am

Heather, that patient was a 74yo female who had collapsed while trying to make it to the bathroom and was just in the hospital a day or two previous to this with a GI bleed.  We transported her to the ER and I found out that she was flown down to Sioux Falls a few hours later.

Comment by Brian J. on December 17, 2011 at 10:31pm

I didn't make it the funeral due to being in an outage at work. I wish I could have!!

Comment by Fabulous Heather Days of Summer on December 17, 2011 at 10:29pm

glad you got your "accident" cleared up... humbles us when things like that happen - LOL

 

yes, I too was proud that this young man had his priorities straight - our society really does not raise our kids well over-all it seems lately... things like money and power are more important and loyalty and honor and respect

 

yes - no picnic... BIG HUGS TO YOU !!! I know this has weighed heavily on you. I agree that the leaders especially need to experience the impact of LODDs - since many LODD that I hear about may have been avoided if leadership had led the scene differently.

 

There was a # of FFs that died in Chicago a short while back and the on scene chief publicly apologized for being overly aggressive and putting the crew in danger which resulted in entrapment and death. He took full responsibility for the FFs being where they were and the approach that they were using and expressed he would do things differently in the future - and he learned a lot from their deaths - and would not let that education go un-used on future scenes.

Comment by Fabulous Heather Days of Summer on December 17, 2011 at 10:23pm

whiplash - hee hee

Comment by Fabulous Heather Days of Summer on December 17, 2011 at 9:21pm

Naughtiest Scrooge - I know we have not chatted much. How have you been?   Have things settled down since your trip to Mass.  That must have been so hard. Did you run into Brian?

 

The cemetary by my house in Cali has a FF funeral every few months that I usually go to - just to show support & respect... and take time to grieve the loss of others that were close to me that I have not fully grieved yet... I need ongoing doses of facing those feelings and incidents - otherwise I stuff it all and it stacks up..

 

While I did not know that particular FF - I grew up around most of that department and the neighboring departments - and it has been a very emotional road for them this decade with so much stress.

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