You know you are an EMT/Paramedic when...

[cstiltzcook2]

Yep..."hold on let me check my schedule....ok now let me check my other job...ok, yeah I can do that"

Also when a coworker ask what your doing on Tuesday and you respond with "why?" instead of "nothing really".

I totally feel that one..

Yea and at what point is -I just don't feel like working another day- going to be acceptable instead of coming up with another dental appt? I need to get over this whole not wanting to look like a slackarse thing. Sheesh...

 

[bmedicp]

You know you have worked on an ambulance for too many days in a row when.............................................someone wakes you up, because you didnt hear the 911 phone go off, and they tell you "wake up, you have a call". And you tell them "Tell that fool to call back, I'm asleep". And I actually did this, my crew chief didnt think it was very funny, but I dont remember saying that. lol

 

[Blondee]

Coming home after a l o n g 24 hour shift; pulled into driveway, got out to walk into my house and there is a deputies car sitting in driveway behind me: first thought was how did I not hit him pulling in.

When I went and talked to him, he said he followed me home to see who I was because at the 6 stoplights he followed me through I stopped at each checked both ways and then ran them. OOPS.
He thought it was funny, it helped that he was on 9 of the 11 runs we had on the 12 hours of his shift over night.

oops!

 

[firetender]

When you're working so much with one partner and you're the one usually driving that you get off shift and, deciding to go have breakfast, you jump behind the wheel and he gets in the passenger seat; except it's HIS car you're using!

 

[NomadicMedic]

When you're introduced to someone and the first thing you say is, "so why did you call 911 tonight?"


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[Sasha]

When you're working so much with one partner and you're the one usually driving that you get off shift and, deciding to go have breakfast, you jump behind the wheel and he gets in the passenger seat; except it's HIS car you're using!

Another way you know youre working too much is when you start cycling with a female partner.

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[FrostbiteMedic]

Another way you know youre working too much is when you start cycling with a female partner.

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Can't say I have ever had that problem.

However, you know you've been working too much when you get off shift and, instead of going home, crawl into the back of your POV for a nap because you just know your phone is going to ring (i.e.-the next shift is a full moon, holiday, etc, etc. and you are PRN).

 

[04_edge]

1. Things the general public would find disgusting makes you hungry.
2. Your favorite time of the day revolves around when exxon or 7/11 begins selling coffee again.
3. Caffiene and sleep take presidence over food.
4. You can't remember what a "normal" job and working an 8 hour shift is like.
5. You now find it easier to talk to your co-workers about stuff then you do friends youve had for 10 years.

 

[Anjel]

1. Things the general public would find disgusting makes you hungry.
2. Your favorite time of the day revolves around when exxon or 7/11 begins selling coffee again.
3. Caffiene and sleep take presidence over food.
4. You can't remember what a "normal" job and working an 8 hour shift is like.
5. You now find it easier to talk to your co-workers about stuff then you do friends youve had for 10 years.

Definitely number 5

 

[johnrsemt]

When you are asleep in the back of the truck; and the shift changes; your out going partner tells your incoming partner where you are.
You wake up and go to the bathroom and when you come back out you watch your truck and partner drive away to go post.

When you go tell dispatch to bring your truck back because they forgot something; and they look at you and ask why.

Happened while I worked 3 weeks straight. 24hr a day

 

[IRIDEZX6R]

When getting a job in California is almost as fantastic as winning the lottery.

 

[traumaluv2011]

1. You have the bladder capacity of five people.
2. You have ever restrained someone and it wasn't a sexual experience.
3. You believe that 50% of people are a waste of good air.
4. Your idea of a good time is a shooting or a car crash/rollover.
5. You believe in the aerial spraying of Prozac and birth control pills.
6. You believe the government should require a permit to reproduce.
7. You refer to your favorite restaurant by the intersection it's located at.
8. You have ever wanted to hold a seminar entitled: "Suicide....getting it right the first time.
9. You think caffeine should be available in IV form.
10. People flag you down on the street for directions to the strangest places....and you know where they are located.
11. You can discuss where you are going to eat with your partner while standing over a dead body.
12. You have ever assessed the level of orientation of a patient and didn't know the correct answer.
13. A weeks worth of laundry consists of five of the same pair of pants and five of the same shirts, five pairs of underwear and five pairs of socks.
14. You've ever referred to Tuesday as "my weekend", or "this is my Friday."
15. Discussing dismemberment over a meal seems perfectly normal to you.
16. You find humor in other people's stupidity.
17. You have ever avoided an unhealthy looking COPD'er in public for fear that he might drop dead in front of you, causing you to have to do CPR on your day off.
18. You have your weekends planned for a year.
19. You ever look at complete strangers and your first thought is "nice veins".
20. You believe unspeakable evil will befall you if anyone says, "Boy, it sure is QUIET tonight."

 

[slb862]

you are driving down the road and you look into the vehicle next to you, and you say to yourself: Please don't crash, I don't want to have to extricate that 500lb dude.

Or telling a diabetic (low blood sugar) pt. that if I get called to this address again, during my shift, you will be going to the hospital and finding out he died during the night.

 

[imadriver]

Last night I noticed I used the restroom with one hand so I could keep my "radio hand" free...

 

[Sasha]

.... Sit down, you wont need any hands. Or hover!

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[STXmedic]

Last night I noticed I used the restroom with one hand so I could keep my "radio hand" free...

Wow...

 

[imadriver]

Wow...

The regret on posting that is just now sinking in a bit... hmm... well then...

 

[traumaluv2011]

Every time you hear a siren, you pray that your pager/radio doesn't go off.

 

[Darksky]

You wash your hands better before peeing than after.

 

[Handsome Robb]

1. You have the bladder capacity of five people.

I disagree, I have the bladder capacity of a pregnant 12 year old.