Slowly But Surely…

Hahahaha! To add to June’s comment… I am straight, but that is some sexy man! LOL! Sorry, I am drunk. But I think the ladies will like picture 2 the best, because she is right, the man in the 3rd picture was kind of dorky looking. But if you look the way you do now, but lose those 45 pounds AND continue to be freaking hilarious in your EMS speeches and blogging, you will have to get some bug spray that repels the women!

Very cute! Way to go AD!

Very cute! Way to go AD!

Good job on the weight, but I bet if you were still running with those black beauties chasing rabbits and such you never would have gained so much to lose. Don’t you just hate the paperwork and doughnuts? You are really doing well.

Good job on the weight, but I bet if you were still running with those black beauties chasing rabbits and such you never would have gained so much to lose. Don’t you just hate the paperwork and doughnuts? You are really doing well.

Way to go AD – ur looking hot!

Way to go AD – ur looking hot!

Hey AD:I have never commented on your fantastic blog yet so here is a first. PLEEEEEASE do a general post on how you safely reccomend the wonderful weight loss that you achieved. I cant believe, with all my paramedic and PA-NC experience I did not check and a find a minute statistic that caused the bowles to absorb calories at 3X the normal weight. It was at the bottom, in fine print, in my PDR and few articles on line. I thought I was gettig sedentary and just being lazy and eating too many carbs as we all have gone through. I am now boarderline DM, have 2 lypomas on my back and unilateral gynocomastia on the R side that plastics is looking at this week because it has a marble sized root. It all happened fast and I got so scared that I am feeling anorexic and dont feel like eating anything! Please do a page on proper weight loss for those of us “health people” that have gotten fat. I quit smoking years ago and agree with you 100% on “the AD’s smoking policy”. I wish you had a badge and your gun to write the $500 tickets that lazy, smoking officers dont want to write. I think I should be able to carry one of those high powered, pump, water guns and spray 10 smoking people blocking the enterence to the hospital or another public buiding (which is against the law here anyway). I am allergic to smoke and quit IMMEDIATLY. I would get arrested for assault and they would get nothing even though I have had a few MAJOR asthma attack from cigarette smoke! I will take prednisone and albuterol if I have to go to a wedding or Bar-Mitzvah because they are unpredictable reactions. I have to hold my breath going into buildings. On another note, I am now going to SERIOUSLY re-think taking the flight medic CCEMT=P clas which is geared to flight medics and combines the ground course as well. They teach central lines and chest tubes with hands on clinicals. I had to get in a chopper once because they needed an extra set of hands and it was a SMALL one becaue the pilot checked the weight three times! I was kinda nervous to be honest but was too busy bagging and decompressing the chest while they (RN/ER Resident) did a pericardiocentesis and other things (I was in the airway seat). I am now scared to death of getting in one of them; moreover, for a full-time job! Your RIGHT, the government will regulate it FAST. Dont they have RADAR????? YOU ARE 100% CORRECT ABOUT INNAPROPRIATE USE OF AIR CRAFT! It is a CASH COW and often the sending hospital has finantial connections with the recieving hospitals! We now have 12 choppers 24/7 in the State of Indiana and they do mostly “critical care transport” from rural hospitals larger hospital systems bought to their main tertiary hospital (s)! Granted, our state is now WELL covered for “the golden hour” but that is a slim part of what they REALLY DO! What happened to “Load and Go”? One last thing, check out the cable show “Venom ER” from Loma Linda Med. Ctr. in California. It is mostly snakes, BUT, there ARE some N. American spiders that are not indigenous to N. America (so technically they are S. American spiders) out S. West that can kill ya’. But you are absolutely right that once you stabalize an anaphalactic reaction the extra 30 minutes can be maintained by medics! GOOD POST MAN! Why won’t you sid on the board for the AAA, NREMT, or take an EMS slot on the board for the ACS trauma program that sets guidlines for ER doc training! Lastly: We used to have central line protocols in Indianapolis. Basically a set of 3-5″, 12-20g angiocath (for large adult to peds) where you would put a syringe on the end to aspirate blood to check for proper placement. It was taken away before the IO gun because “lazy medics” did not take advantage of the free inservice hours where they could be supervised in placing FULL TRIPPLE LUMEN CENTRAL LINES to maintain profiency. Maybe they were scared they did not know the anatomy and landmarks. I JUMPED on that fantasic opportunity to work with the intensivist and that was before untrasound guidance for IJ’s. Basically; people came into the ER with “Internal Carotid Artery Lines” ARGHHHH and even men with “Internal Spermadic Cord Lines” because they got flashback from the speradic artery or vein or both, maybe from all the bleeding they caused and when the patiets clothes were removed they would find the scrotum with 500+ of saline and meds in it (not ro mention before the scrotum check they wondered why the line was in the inguinal canal)! Now these lasy, incompetant medics dont even bother to look for the PROPER, PREDICTABLE, BIG VEINS, even in BIG PEOPLE (just because they cant see and feel a ‘garden hose’) and take a ‘qucik look’ and grab the IO gun (procedure happy medics too) and we all know that is a last resort because trauma patients need rapid volume replacement. ARGHHHHH ACKKKKK I wish our county woud HIRE YOU to straighten out the HUGE MESS that is happening here! They ARE hiring! Thanks for the rant and please post a weight loss reccomendation page and please comment on how to deal with people like this because you seem very even-tempered AT WORK (lol) and maybe you can tell us how to get rid of bad apples without getting hazed in EMS politics.

Hey AD:I have never commented on your fantastic blog yet so here is a first. PLEEEEEASE do a general post on how you safely reccomend the wonderful weight loss that you achieved. I cant believe, with all my paramedic and PA-NC experience I did not check and a find a minute statistic that caused the bowles to absorb calories at 3X the normal weight. It was at the bottom, in fine print, in my PDR and few articles on line. I thought I was gettig sedentary and just being lazy and eating too many carbs as we all have gone through. I am now boarderline DM, have 2 lypomas on my back and unilateral gynocomastia on the R side that plastics is looking at this week because it has a marble sized root. It all happened fast and I got so scared that I am feeling anorexic and dont feel like eating anything! Please do a page on proper weight loss for those of us “health people” that have gotten fat. I quit smoking years ago and agree with you 100% on “the AD’s smoking policy”. I wish you had a badge and your gun to write the $500 tickets that lazy, smoking officers dont want to write. I think I should be able to carry one of those high powered, pump, water guns and spray 10 smoking people blocking the enterence to the hospital or another public buiding (which is against the law here anyway). I am allergic to smoke and quit IMMEDIATLY. I would get arrested for assault and they would get nothing even though I have had a few MAJOR asthma attack from cigarette smoke! I will take prednisone and albuterol if I have to go to a wedding or Bar-Mitzvah because they are unpredictable reactions. I have to hold my breath going into buildings. On another note, I am now going to SERIOUSLY re-think taking the flight medic CCEMT=P clas which is geared to flight medics and combines the ground course as well. They teach central lines and chest tubes with hands on clinicals. I had to get in a chopper once because they needed an extra set of hands and it was a SMALL one becaue the pilot checked the weight three times! I was kinda nervous to be honest but was too busy bagging and decompressing the chest while they (RN/ER Resident) did a pericardiocentesis and other things (I was in the airway seat). I am now scared to death of getting in one of them; moreover, for a full-time job! Your RIGHT, the government will regulate it FAST. Dont they have RADAR????? YOU ARE 100% CORRECT ABOUT INNAPROPRIATE USE OF AIR CRAFT! It is a CASH COW and often the sending hospital has finantial connections with the recieving hospitals! We now have 12 choppers 24/7 in the State of Indiana and they do mostly “critical care transport” from rural hospitals larger hospital systems bought to their main tertiary hospital (s)! Granted, our state is now WELL covered for “the golden hour” but that is a slim part of what they REALLY DO! What happened to “Load and Go”? One last thing, check out the cable show “Venom ER” from Loma Linda Med. Ctr. in California. It is mostly snakes, BUT, there ARE some N. American spiders that are not indigenous to N. America (so technically they are S. American spiders) out S. West that can kill ya’. But you are absolutely right that once you stabalize an anaphalactic reaction the extra 30 minutes can be maintained by medics! GOOD POST MAN! Why won’t you sid on the board for the AAA, NREMT, or take an EMS slot on the board for the ACS trauma program that sets guidlines for ER doc training! Lastly: We used to have central line protocols in Indianapolis. Basically a set of 3-5″, 12-20g angiocath (for large adult to peds) where you would put a syringe on the end to aspirate blood to check for proper placement. It was taken away before the IO gun because “lazy medics” did not take advantage of the free inservice hours where they could be supervised in placing FULL TRIPPLE LUMEN CENTRAL LINES to maintain profiency. Maybe they were scared they did not know the anatomy and landmarks. I JUMPED on that fantasic opportunity to work with the intensivist and that was before untrasound guidance for IJ’s. Basically; people came into the ER with “Internal Carotid Artery Lines” ARGHHHH and even men with “Internal Spermadic Cord Lines” because they got flashback from the speradic artery or vein or both, maybe from all the bleeding they caused and when the patiets clothes were removed they would find the scrotum with 500+ of saline and meds in it (not ro mention before the scrotum check they wondered why the line was in the inguinal canal)! Now these lasy, incompetant medics dont even bother to look for the PROPER, PREDICTABLE, BIG VEINS, even in BIG PEOPLE (just because they cant see and feel a ‘garden hose’) and take a ‘qucik look’ and grab the IO gun (procedure happy medics too) and we all know that is a last resort because trauma patients need rapid volume replacement. ARGHHHHH ACKKKKK I wish our county woud HIRE YOU to straighten out the HUGE MESS that is happening here! They ARE hiring! Thanks for the rant and please post a weight loss reccomendation page and please comment on how to deal with people like this because you seem very even-tempered AT WORK (lol) and maybe you can tell us how to get rid of bad apples without getting hazed in EMS politics.

Wow! That’s great! I’m working at trimming down too. Even been thinking about joining a gym although haven’t quite gotten up the nerve yet. But with the weight I have lost so far it sure makes it easier to get up on my horse and my knees (and probably the horse) are most grateful. Keep up the good work.

Wow! That’s great! I’m working at trimming down too. Even been thinking about joining a gym although haven’t quite gotten up the nerve yet. But with the weight I have lost so far it sure makes it easier to get up on my horse and my knees (and probably the horse) are most grateful. Keep up the good work.

<>Love<> the pornstache, AD!

the pornstache, AD!

I think you look great in all the pictures, even picture Number 1 which you seem to hate. All of the pictures are attractive; but if you feel better losing weight…. I say congratulations.

I think you look great in all the pictures, even picture Number 1 which you seem to hate. All of the pictures are attractive; but if you feel better losing weight…. I say congratulations.

You are HOT. I mean HOT. In both top pics, IMHO. The third reminds me of the guys in my high school days, but you’re cute there too.

You are HOT. I mean HOT. In both top pics, IMHO. The third reminds me of the guys in my high school days, but you’re cute there too.

And yes, all three pictures are excellent.I mean, you’re probably used to beating off the women, and have been all your life, but I’m joining the throngs!Don’t tell my bf, but you’re more funny than he is.

And yes, all three pictures are excellent.I mean, you’re probably used to beating off the women, and have been all your life, but I’m joining the throngs!Don’t tell my bf, but you’re more funny than he is.

AD…you’re going to kill me for saying this, but in that after pic you take on an un-nerving resemblance to a certain other unmentionable paramedic who used to work in that ER…Just kidding!

AD…you’re going to kill me for saying this, but in that after pic you take on an un-nerving resemblance to a certain other unmentionable paramedic who used to work in that ER…Just kidding!

<>glances around to see if husband is watching<><>lets out wolf whistle<>

You look great AD, CongratulationsLinda in Miszippi

You look great AD, CongratulationsLinda in Miszippi

looking good……but the 70′s “porn ‘stache” MUST GO!(ewww Shudders)I think skinny men (like photo 3) are bad news….I like a BEEFY GUY…