Well, I had an interesting evening last night, got me thinking.
Have any of you had to be transported to the hospital by your own agency?
I ride with a relatively small agency, we're all volunteers and very close knit. Yesterday was a great day for me, interviewed and was hired for summer work, passed my ambulance road test, and tested out of an agency-specific class. A bunch of us went out to grab some food together to celebrate at the student union, and myself and another friend grabbed some pizza, the rest got subs/chinese/etc.
Well, at about 2am I woke up with full blown food poisoning. After about 4 hours of the associated fun of vomiting in my dorm hall's bathroom, I seriously considered calling in seeing as I was getting very dehydrated and couldn't keep liquid or food down and was generally weak and still vomiting after all this time.
As I was considering it (main reason I didn't was because it would mean crawling back to my room and finding my phone
), I couldn't help at laugh at the look on the face of the crew when they showed up to find me. The added irony would probably be that 'intox' would be the first thing to come to mind given the circumstances (big party night) and the fact that it IS a college campus. Would've taken a few weeks to live that down!
Have any of you had to be transported to the hospital by your own agency?
I ride with a relatively small agency, we're all volunteers and very close knit. Yesterday was a great day for me, interviewed and was hired for summer work, passed my ambulance road test, and tested out of an agency-specific class. A bunch of us went out to grab some food together to celebrate at the student union, and myself and another friend grabbed some pizza, the rest got subs/chinese/etc.
Well, at about 2am I woke up with full blown food poisoning. After about 4 hours of the associated fun of vomiting in my dorm hall's bathroom, I seriously considered calling in seeing as I was getting very dehydrated and couldn't keep liquid or food down and was generally weak and still vomiting after all this time.
As I was considering it (main reason I didn't was because it would mean crawling back to my room and finding my phone
), I couldn't help at laugh at the look on the face of the crew when they showed up to find me. The added irony would probably be that 'intox' would be the first thing to come to mind given the circumstances (big party night) and the fact that it IS a college campus. Would've taken a few weeks to live that down! 
