My buddy ran a call a couple nights ago that seemed pretty bad. We were talking about it when he dropped this paragraph that I thought was absolutely beautiful.
You have up to $15k to spend on a car that gets decent gas mileage that will haul up to four people, each with one suitcase, comfortably for a 100 mile drive once a week. What do you buy?
The county I work in is pretty much rural with some suburbs and small cities, we'll run anywhere from 7-10 ambulances to cover the majority of the county, with the exception of one FD that has two or three boxes.
We try to run Medic/EMT on most of the rigs with one or two EMT/EMT rigs to...
Aye, they never shut down. I still have some friends that work there, they report that their call volume has decreased quite a bit. Other than that it's business as usual
I have 4x4s, neosporin and kerlix on now.
The issue I see with this is that coban is porous and the 4x4s are absorptive. I've got a couple days before I go back to let it all scab over, do you think that and the dressing will be enough of a barrier?
I like the saran wrap idea...
I decided it would be a great idea to grind some rocks into my forearm earlier when I took a tumble from my bike.
Usually when I have a small cut or something I'll throw a tegaderm over it while I'm working to keep nasties out, but the majority of the medial aspect of my forearm is abraded...
So I got $15 worth of free chips for signing up for a local casino's player's club. I turned it into over $400 last night. Not bad for a few hours of blackjack
I was scheduled to roll over onto another rig this morning. When I got to my new station the boss told me to go home, spend the day with my family, and come back for what should be the three busiest days of the desert season.
I'll report back as to whether or not this was a good thing on...