Hi GhettoMedic world. I feel disconnected from everything... My life has been one heck of a whirl-wind over the past several months. I'm almost done my second and headed into the third semester of my first year of nursing school. Next week I actually find out if I get accepted into the second year of the program. (don't even ask me to explain the weird program I am in, but the short of it is you go for your LPN in one year - three semesters - and then reapply for the RN year, which ...
I've never posted anything remotely close to this before. This has been something floating around my brain for a few months. We took a transfer out of the ICU from a woman who had coded, been resuscitated and was now alert and talking. Just before we left, I saw the expression on her face and her husbands face, just before, during and after their kiss as we were getting ready to leave. All of these thoughts came rushing to my head, and ever since then I have really ...
OK. So I'll admit I have been a flakely online friend the last few months, but if anyone has been following my full-time-blog (www.vtcabinfever.blogspot.com) then you will know what I've been up to and that I didn't drop off the face of The Earth. Also, I have been struggling with enjoying my job versus going insane. I've come close to having a break down in the past few months, which is actually hard for me to admit, but I have just been doing way too much for way too long. My life literally ...
Girl entangled in freight elevator It was very early morning as I remember it about 3:00 a.m. I was fast asleep at home as I was not on the primary volunteer ambulance crew. It was mid summer so the temperature was comfortable you know shorts and tee shirt weather. The quite was suddenly disturbed by the alert of my ambulance pager. The voice request an ambulance respond to a report of a women trapped in an elevator at a local country club, they also indicated that the caller was ...
It was early summer morning in 1986; I was a new member of a local volunteer ambulance corps in New York., and the only training I had at the time was CPR. I was asleep when my ambulance pager alerted me at about 3:00 a.m. The dispatcher requested an ambulance to respond for a woman stuck in an elevator at one of the local county clubs. I wasn’t on duty that morning, but the call was close to my home, and the ambulance headquarters was across town so I responded. I remember thinking as I was ...
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