another interesting day...

So on April 7th, I had another eventful day with the ambulance. I started my day off with getting called to something about a person hitting their head. When we arrived I heard the people explaining to the medic with me something about upstairs, and downstairs, and then we began to go downstairs. As we get near the bottom level we learn that a person is laying there motionless. I soon find out he jumped from the 5th floor down and hit his head on the steps, cracking open his skull, and bled out a lot. The patient committed suicide, and it was not a pleasant site. It sucks knowing we couldnt do anything to help him anymore at this point. He lost too much blood and was already going pale, even though he was still warm considering he had just died. Yes, these things arent necessarily good, but it happens, and thats part of my job. It just is sad to see someone take their own life.

Later that day, I got called to a CVA. It turned out the patients sugar was very low, and we had trouble finding a vein for the iv and finally the paramedic found a spot. Once we increased his sugar, we saw a very huge difference in his behaviors. The intensive care ambulance then took him to the hospital.

So this week is not over yet and already I have seen so much, and I only told about 2 of the calls...everyone please respond so I know you are reading this. Miss and love you all!