John's Blog (111)

Thanks

Thanks for all of your thoughts and prayers

John

Added by John on December 28, 2008 at 2:51pm — 1 Comment

Well yesterday My wife had to head out to Pa cause her grandma wasn't doing real well, This morning she had texted me and said she had passed away. I got to talk to her later today and she says all is well, I am guessing from what she had said, her grandma was in her 80's and was failing health wise. Rest in Peace Grandma.

I am now hoping the next few days go by fast, as I had to stay behind and continue working while she went to PA, I am very lucky that she understands and was never upset… Continue

Added by John on December 27, 2008 at 11:50pm — 4 Comments

Merry Christmas

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS
BE SAFE THIS HOLIDAY SEASON.

Added by John on December 24, 2008 at 7:58am — 4 Comments

Last Medic shift

What a Night my last medic shift was right in the middle of a level I snow emergency in Montgomery County Ohio. The roads were real nsty and I am sure there were alot of places in just as bad a storm. the funny and not so funny thing was that my medic was already out when I came on duty, as well as one of my partners (a sqaud leader) our other partner was out on our medic already as she works a 24 hr shift. Well all you know what was breaking loose and they had all equipment out somewhere in… Continue

Added by John on December 19, 2008 at 9:23am — 1 Comment

I have been busy

Sorry I haven't been on in a few days I have been busy around the house and trying to stay busy with the Department (Which has been slow, but is good and bad, good cause noone is having problems , bad cause I don't make any pay) It has been a rough couple of days trying to get everything in order for the holidays. I will try and get on when I have some time.
Until then everyone have a safe and Happy Holiday.
Merry Christmas an God Bless all.

Added by John on December 15, 2008 at 8:02am — 2 Comments

Assessments

I just turned in my clinical book for assessments for medics class No one was there so I do not know what the next step is. I was supposed to have 10 by the end of the quarter and only had 3, but had an extension til today and only had gotten 3 more. According to the instructor It will be an incomplete. When we started the class he had said we should have 10 done by the end of the quarter, the way he made it sound it was an accumulative total and that 10 was where we should be at, NOT that we… Continue

Added by John on December 8, 2008 at 9:43am — 2 Comments

Just wondering

I was just wondering if anyone else goes on the local news websites and copies and pastes any articles from calls they were on and saves them. Every fire call we are on and the news crews show up usually the next day I go through and save the articles on my computer, I know that sounds wierd doing that and of course I have been called(jokingly though) a freak and such LOL. I like having these I guess don't know why maybe its a phase and it will soon go away. I was wondering if anyone else did… Continue

Added by John on December 4, 2008 at 9:22am — 4 Comments

Structure Fire

WOW we had another incident, a structure fire in an office warehouse that houses electronic bingo games. The call went out as a burglar alarm at around 3 AM and once the Sheriffs got there they were calling it fire thru the roof working structure fire. My Engine (45) was first on scene after the battallion, and was told to check the roof and verify whether it was thru or just a roof fire. we laddered the roof and it appeared to have burnt thru. Then made entry to the adjacent office and found… Continue

Added by John on December 3, 2008 at 9:04am — 1 Comment

Bad Night

Training got messed up last night due to a bad call, We got sent out at a little after 1800 hrs for fatal auto accident, not a good way to start the night. We actually ended up going on 3 MVC's before things let up, all due to the weather here in the Dayton area. I know ther was nothing more I could do but the mind today is running through what happened and trying to figure out if I could have done something different. I guess its just me but I wonder if everyone feels that way after a bad… Continue

Added by John on December 2, 2008 at 9:00am — 6 Comments

Training

Tonight we have training, to which I am not quite sure what we are covering, although from the schedule we are supposed to go over gas monitors, radios, etc. But no matter what it should be good, even if its something we might know there is always something to pick up each time. there is only 1 more training session for the year in 2 weeks, and barring me getting hurt I will have gotten a perfect attendance on fire training and that will go along with perfect attendance for our EMS training to… Continue

Added by John on December 1, 2008 at 4:52pm — No Comments

Strange dispatch and calls

This past weekend our area had some strange dispatching going on that kinda like mad a few of us on the engine wonder, there was a call for a choking at a fastfood restaurant in our district but they only called the medic for it, now granted they said they were breathing and it is our policy that it is dispatcher discreation on who they send, but what was crazy about it was later they sent us to a call and all it said was for a bleed, we get there and the person basicly only stubbed thier toe… Continue

Added by John on December 1, 2008 at 9:34am — 4 Comments

Weekend

Sorry I wasn't on more this weekend, this was a crew weekend which meant I had to be ready all weekend (Vollie), and then I really haven't been in a good mood all weekend. Just alot going on and quite frankly to damn slow on the calls, which believe it or not is what usually kicks me out of a blue funk. But I do try to get on here to wish all my Brothers and Sisters to be safe. This mood will pass in time and I will be in a better mood soon.

Added by John on December 1, 2008 at 8:52am — 1 Comment

Morphine

We had only one call last night an MVC right in front of the station, I also got 2 more assessments out of it and got to push my first drug dose Morphine SQ, Only because we could not get a line started and she was in some pain. Only 5 more assessments to go YAY.

Added by John on November 29, 2008 at 12:21pm — 7 Comments

Medic Shift

Tonight I am supposed to run on our medic and being the day after a holiday it makes me wonder how much action we will have tonight, quite frankly I would like a slow night, but at the same time I would like some runs so I can hopefully get all of my assessments done before the deadline of Dec 8th, I would go to the hospitals and do some clinicals but I have noone to watch my daughter during the day. So all I can do is be patient (not one of my best virtues) and let things play out natuarlly.

Added by John on November 28, 2008 at 12:01pm — 2 Comments

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving has been here and gone, as for my family and I we had a wonderful time. We had fixed a 20lbs bird and made mashed potoatos and green beans, while other family members made the rest of the fixins. We did have a very wonderful time. The other part of the spectrum which was pleasant was we did not have any emergencies in the Township other than a few injury from falls, so our Engine didn't roll until 11:45 last night to a nursing home for a medic assist. So I was able to spend the… Continue

Added by John on November 28, 2008 at 11:25am — No Comments

I Passed the Finals test

I have passed my finals test in medics class now all I need to do is make up a Lab Exam today, and try to get my last 7 patient assessments by Dec 8th. Definitely not sweating those items. I ended up with a score of an 82 on the exam and depnding on my lab exam today my final class score could be anywhere from 84 to 86.

Added by John on November 24, 2008 at 7:00am — 8 Comments

Finals

Well I have sorta made it through, Just have to do a make up lab on Monday but that shouldn't be to hard. The only thing that sucked was I only have 3 patient assessments in and the way I took it (My misunderstanding) was that you should try to have 10 done but if not it would throw you behind. well now I need to get 7 more by the 8th of Dec or I will get an incomplete for the class. I shouldn't have a problem getting the other 7 by then though, Just irritates me something firece that its that… Continue

Added by John on November 21, 2008 at 3:11pm — 4 Comments

Medics final is here

Well we had a review for our medics final this Friday, but then I have to do a make up lab on Monday but that I am not worried about, of course I am not to worried about the final but then again I am just a little. I know all I have to do is study and I should be ok. I will hopefully know by Monday if I passed the Final and the class.

Added by John on November 19, 2008 at 1:38pm — 3 Comments

New Nickelback Cd

Just got the new Nickelback CD and it is awesome. I think I have lstened to it like 4 times already LOL

Added by John on November 18, 2008 at 10:30pm — No Comments

Got my first

Last night while on the medic we had a call where I was able to start an IV and although it took 2 trys I got my first patent Iv started, all this while the medic was in motion, It totally was cool getting it done, now for the medic class I only need 24 more sticks (whew)

Added by John on November 17, 2008 at 12:21pm — 3 Comments