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too funny!:)

Hey Girl...I truly feel your frustration! Chin up and keep on pressing forward...you'll be amazed, when you're on the flip side and looking back, at all the 'stuff' you learned in spite of feeling like you never could....if I can do it...(which, in some miraculous way I DID) YOU can do it!! You...

this is a fun and educational place to be! Welcome Layla!

the size of the person coding is directly proportionate to the size of the area they code in...the larger the person is, the smaller the space will be...it it will usually be between a toilet and a tub at the back end of an 8 foot wide trailer house....

....everything said here rings true...or false...depending on day, time weather, availability of unavailability of necessary equipment, adequate training, or lack thereof, availability of food or hunger or people or animals or moon phase or star alignment or clothing worn (or not).... only one...

3 a.m., or thereabouts, dispatched to the report of a female with 'toe pain'. Arrive at scene to find a middle aged female stating that she could not walk due to toe pain....history of event...she stubbed her big toe on a portable heater(which was NOT on) in the middle of the night on her way to...

...I know EXACTLY what you mean! I frequently confer with my ALOC patients to decide which day it is...and if it even matters ;)

who am I? Hmmm....let's see....no, really, who AM I???? Yikes!! 45 y/o female (but that CAN'T possibly be right?!!), long time single mother of four of the most beautiful children (3 almost grown now) in the galaxy! Two bazillion animals of all shapes and sizes (many of them actually...

Wow...I should come here more often...in your midst I'm beginning to feel as if I might actually be approaching 'normal'.....wait...what? that last transmission was scratchy...repeat? ....hmmmm, well, who wants to be 'normal' anyway....eh?;) You guys -n- gals all ROCK!!! Hope the day is off to a...

it all runs together for me...is it day? or night? which year? hmmm....maybe I've been here toooooo long :) where I am now we work 72-96 hours straight then get 3/4 days off....it's a slow station, most of the time... you know how that can go. I prefer nights, I feel certain that I'm part...

sleep with your books and flash cards under your pillow and a tape recording of someone reading the information off quietly in the background....then get up and read, write, practise scenarios using them....over and over again...till you think you can't possibly think anymore....then do it...

...rather, 'carotid' pressure

I agree with this wisdom of quickly checking your field guide for medication dosages etc. as you CALMLY treat your patient....it's the frantically flipping through the pages of such, with wide eyed horror and explicatives spewing forth, that kinda gets your patient a little edgy if they are...

I'll ditto what everyone else said....non of us perfect (tho' there are a few who would claim differently ;)) and good effort and learning point on your part! We do not even carry mag. (they took it away a couple years ago...still working on getting it back) so if she had been in our ambulance...

....:)....intra ocular....good one!

I've got a dead guy (or gal) in front of me...good CPR in progress...no status change in the patient....and a minimal tool box at hand....am I gonna take a chance and DO something....or just leave 'em lyin?....I'm thinkin'... I sure ain't gonna make 'em any deader by tryin' a few tricks...

...you guys and gals are good! Along with all of the aforementioned items the thought did cross my mind that she could've sustained a head injury secondary toa fall (found on the floor...right?) thereby causing neurologic deficits.... anyway...sad news on the true nature of her problem....and...

knee puncher equals IO? Maybe? Glad to hear your enthusiasm...if you keep that then the rest will just get better all the time :)

Foley's were not on our list of skills either....and, in spite of our instructor's advice, I did more than a few as well as quite a few other, more interesting things in the name of 'training'. Now, 9 years into the deal, I've worked at a hospital based ambulance service for almost 7 of that and...

Dang! It can indeed be tough the first time around....just know that you are one among many who have taken the course more than once before coming to a postive end (or new beginning, depending on how you look at it)...yeah, I know, little consolation in that fact but still, it's a good thing so...