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LonelyIslands
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
Canada590 Posts
May 23 2013 11:21 GMT
#1
National EMS weeks is starting this Sunday. Emergency Medical Service agencies across the country will be out promoting their respective professions. I myself am a career Paramedic as is my wife. Yesterday at about 12:06 we were involved in a three vehicle motor vehicle collision. A Dodge Caravan cut across our lane of traffic and we struck him broadside. His vehicle was thrown into another car. Air bags were deployed in all three vehicles and nobody sustained any injuries. We had our 5 month old son with us which was scary. My wife and I stumbled out of our vehicle and jumped in the back with him to make sure he was ok. I held c-spine until Paramedics arrived. The Police Officer and Fire Fighters were all very good and very helpful. The Paramedics who arrived was a crew that I work with and it was nice to see familiar faces. It is weird being on the opposite end of the phone/call, but everyone worked together and I am sitting home on my laptop with my little boy next to me healthy as can be.

EMS week is dedicated to those individuals who risk theirs to save yours, who work in adverse weather conditions because there is no calling in sick. It's a career that balances absolute miracles and unimaginable tragedies. This is my hats off to those of you who work in EMS; Fire Fighters, EMTs, Paramedics, Medical First Responders, and everyone else.

The following was taken from a Facebook post I stumbled upon the other day:

Standing in chest deep water, freezing rain falling and stinging as it hits the exposed parts of your body. Holding the head above water to keep her head from drowning until rescue could get there to cut her free, but I'm Just An Ambulance Driver

On a scene at a motor vehicle accident a mother trapped upside down in her car and her dead sons body laying on top of her without a second thought for my safety crawling inside the wreckage to take C spine control and to calm the frantic lady, but I'm Just An Ambulance Driver

Confronting a 89 year old lady who just watched for hours me and my partner do our best to save her husband of 64 years as he lay dead in the bathroom floor, but I'm Just An Ambulance Driver

Doing chest compressions on a young girl who decided this life was more than she could take. Her family screaming at us to save her as though we were the ones who did this to her. Her lifeless body flailing about as the tubes goes in and IV's are started, my arm and back burning from the pain of 30 min. of CPR never once giving up, hoping she would make it through and over come whatever lead her to this decision she made, but I'm just An Ambulance Driver

Standing in the middle of a street at midnight on the wrong side of the town trying to save the life of a 19 year old shooting victim with multiple bleeding points with occasional bullets wizzing past our heads never breaking stride because this kids life is in our hands, but I'm Just An Ambulance Driver

Called away from a just prepared meal to B.F.E to a house with no numbers, no porch light on, nobody waiting to sign you in and they yell at you because you took too long only to find out the pt. left P.O.V ten min. ago so we just grin and smile and walk away from the verbal lashing only because, I'm Just An Ambulance Driver

Death is all around me and still I go home to live my life, I get kicked at, spit on, hit, bleed on, puked on, I look into the eyes of lifeless child at 7am and by 8 I'm holding my child a little tighter and they know nothing about what just happened.

I have hundreds of hours of classroom time, years of field experience. I've challenged death and won. I've helped the homeless, I've neglected my family for yours. I find comfort in complete chaos. I eat cold meals if get to eat at all, I work with no sleep for days at a time, I miss birthdays, holidays, and school functions. I put myself in harms way for a total stranger on a daily basis.

ALL BECAUSE I'M JUST AN AMBULANCE DRIVER

I am an Ambulance Driver! I drive 70 mph through congested traffic full of people who refuse to yield the right of way while my partner stands unrestrained in the back of this screaming land missile saving your loved ones life. Never once does he question my driving, he knows that at the end of this shift he will go home to his family safely because I'm an ambulance driver.

To end this blog off, I'm going to post a video of FDNYs Farooq Muhammad.



My heart and my mind will carry my body when my limbs are too weak
WedgeSTL
Profile Joined October 2010
12 Posts
May 23 2013 14:29 GMT
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Not going to lie, this is the last place I thought I would see a post about EMS week. I am a Paramedic as well, work in Pinellas County, FL. Thank you for the post brother, stay safe !!
Starcraft 2
Profile Blog Joined January 2013
United States64 Posts
May 23 2013 21:53 GMT
#3
What's it like having both parents as paramedics? Also, how does a career paramedic get raises or promoted? Isn't all field work the same?
EG.HuG[RC]
WedgeSTL
Profile Joined October 2010
12 Posts
May 23 2013 22:53 GMT
#4
There's other fields you can work in as a Paramedic. Critical care ground transport (if your area has it), Critical care flight; which includes both Helicopters and Fixed wing aircraft. I myself am part of the S.W.A.T. team for the county I work for, which is yet another field you can branch into.

EMS is going through a lot of changes. The knowledge required to be a Paramedic now is much more then it was twenty or thirty years ago when the field was still in it's infancy. Right now most of the people who become a Paramedic use it as entry into nursing school, fire departments, P.A/Med school. There's few places in the states where EMS is just EMS and not attached to some other municipality. Whether it be a hospital, private service or fire department.
LonelyIslands
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
Canada590 Posts
May 25 2013 11:00 GMT
#5
On May 24 2013 06:53 Starcraft 2 wrote:
What's it like having both parents as paramedics? Also, how does a career paramedic get raises or promoted? Isn't all field work the same?


I'm not sure what you mean by both parents being Paramedics unless you are referring to my wife and I. If that is the case then our kids live normal lives. Shift work isn't always fun, but it's the nature of the beast.

Different services have different operating structures. Paramedics do for the most part the same field work but like was stated there are different fields to branch into. Currently in my service I am a Paramedic Supervisor. I work the truck and do everything I would do if I was just a Paramedic but am also responsible for making operational decisions, staffing, inventory, etc. You need to work hard and show that you're willing to do what it takes to advance and that you are cut out for it.
My heart and my mind will carry my body when my limbs are too weak
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