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I Feel Like Such a REMF…

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It’s New Years Day, 2:40 am.

I’m working on the ‘bolance.

Sumdood and his minions are waging an all-out assault on the beleaguered defenders of The Borg Hive, Southwest. My fellow drones are getting slammed.

Plus, I’m beginning to think our dispatcher is on Quaaludes.

Me? Right now I’m 200 miles north, just finishing up a critical care transport of one of Sumdood’s first victims of the evening.

And I am soooo glad I’m not in the city right now.

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Posted by on January 1, 2009 • Filed under: Uncategorized
  • Evil Transport Lady

    What a way to ring in the new year…..smirk;)Stay safe AD!

  • Evil Transport Lady

    What a way to ring in the new year…..smirk;)Stay safe AD!

  • Jay G

    Hey, at 6 AM I was outside shoveling 8″ of Global Warming…Remember, things are never so bad that they can’t get worse.(That’s my own personal corollary to Murphy’s Law…)

  • Jay G

    Hey, at 6 AM I was outside shoveling 8″ of Global Warming…Remember, things are never so bad that they can’t get worse.(That’s my own personal corollary to Murphy’s Law…)

  • Epijunky

    Now that’s excitement! Happy New Year, AD :)

  • Epijunky

    Now that’s excitement! Happy New Year, AD :)

  • Ride Fast

    Happy New Year AD, where ever you are.Be safe buddy, doink sumdude in the forehead for me.

  • Ride Fast

    Happy New Year AD, where ever you are.Be safe buddy, doink sumdude in the forehead for me.

  • Matt G

    I had to pull over a LOT of people before I found my drunk. I was surprised. Lots of drunk passengers, but mostly sober drivers. Then, just as I started to head it to the house, I found my guy. As a completely unrelated side note, I must observe that some people, when intoxicated, become raging assholes.

  • Matt G

    I had to pull over a LOT of people before I found my drunk. I was surprised. Lots of drunk passengers, but mostly sober drivers. Then, just as I started to head it to the house, I found my guy. As a completely unrelated side note, I must observe that some people, when intoxicated, become raging assholes.

  • OldCop

    Happy New year AD, always enjoyed your Blog!

  • OldCop

    Happy New year AD, always enjoyed your Blog!

  • Matt G

    Oh, and Ambo Driver– I forgot to say < HREF="http://ambulancedriverfiles.blogspot.com/2006/12/when-ostriches-attack-part-one.html" REL="nofollow">Happy BlogBirthday<>!

  • Steph

    Do you suppose that Sumdood made a new year’s resolution to give you tons more work in 2009?

  • Steph

    Do you suppose that Sumdood made a new year’s resolution to give you tons more work in 2009?

  • Kevin696

    I didn’t know I had found my drunk until this afternoon. He had no recollection of me giving him and his buddy a lift home from the local watering hole in the cruiser, so when he finally missed his truck around 1 PM today, he reported it stolen. So, I gave him a ride back to the bar. He really didn’t believe anything I was telling him, until he saw his Ford in the parking lot. Happy New Year, knucklehead!!And to you too, AD!!

  • Kevin696

    I didn’t know I had found my drunk until this afternoon. He had no recollection of me giving him and his buddy a lift home from the local watering hole in the cruiser, so when he finally missed his truck around 1 PM today, he reported it stolen. So, I gave him a ride back to the bar. He really didn’t believe anything I was telling him, until he saw his Ford in the parking lot. Happy New Year, knucklehead!!And to you too, AD!!

  • reflectoscope

    I think we’d have to go through a pretty long list before your name came up as a REMF.Jimw/v: aschin. I’ve been called a lot of things, but thats new!

  • reflectoscope

    I think we’d have to go through a pretty long list before your name came up as a REMF.Jimw/v: aschin. I’ve been called a lot of things, but thats new!

  • traumajunkie15

    That sux…Meanwhile I rang mine in by running lights and siren to a distant “band-aid” station because they swore they had a patient in V-tach that desperatley needed a cath lab…He wasnt in V-tach but he was however in resp. arrest…which they failed to notice??????.PS I met you here in Charleston,SC at a disaster medicine conference several months ago. I bought your book and I have to say that the cover is barely holding on because of all the hands it has passed through. I myself have read it at least three times. My mom,who is also a medic, has read it twice. Hope you plan onn writing another really soon. Stay safe…

  • traumajunkie15

    That sux…Meanwhile I rang mine in by running lights and siren to a distant “band-aid” station because they swore they had a patient in V-tach that desperatley needed a cath lab…He wasnt in V-tach but he was however in resp. arrest…which they failed to notice??????.PS I met you here in Charleston,SC at a disaster medicine conference several months ago. I bought your book and I have to say that the cover is barely holding on because of all the hands it has passed through. I myself have read it at least three times. My mom,who is also a medic, has read it twice. Hope you plan onn writing another really soon. Stay safe…

  • Earl

    And the advantage of working in a prison library, is that I sleep through all the stupidity around alcohol and celebrations. Lucky me, thanks for being there for the stupids, it isn’t preventable, but we try.

  • Earl

    And the advantage of working in a prison library, is that I sleep through all the stupidity around alcohol and celebrations. Lucky me, thanks for being there for the stupids, it isn’t preventable, but we try.

  • medicnurse

    I rang mine in by being in aa trailer park, picking up the girl that sumdood had “beat until my fibromyalgia hurts so bad I can’t stand it, 10/10″. That after we had treated sumdood down the street for getting “hit on the head by a crazy b****”. What a welcome to the new year! My partner and I ran 12 calls in 7 hours, I finally saw my coffee at 0600 this am, cold and untouched, back at the station. All this after I had worked 12 hours in the ER, in the psychiatric area. The patients were nice enough, but there was an episode that involved me calling security and the TV was tuned to a CSI marathon for TWELVE STRAIGHT HOURS!! I like CSI, but 12 hours is to much, folks!! I came home this morning, having been awake for 26 hours straight, and went to bed. I finished off the start to the new year by having a good cry when I woke up. Now I feel better, and welcome new year! Hopefully 2009 will be much better than 2008, in my personal life that is. Happy New year, AD!

  • medicnurse

    I rang mine in by being in aa trailer park, picking up the girl that sumdood had “beat until my fibromyalgia hurts so bad I can’t stand it, 10/10″. That after we had treated sumdood down the street for getting “hit on the head by a crazy b****”. What a welcome to the new year! My partner and I ran 12 calls in 7 hours, I finally saw my coffee at 0600 this am, cold and untouched, back at the station. All this after I had worked 12 hours in the ER, in the psychiatric area. The patients were nice enough, but there was an episode that involved me calling security and the TV was tuned to a CSI marathon for TWELVE STRAIGHT HOURS!! I like CSI, but 12 hours is to much, folks!! I came home this morning, having been awake for 26 hours straight, and went to bed. I finished off the start to the new year by having a good cry when I woke up. Now I feel better, and welcome new year! Hopefully 2009 will be much better than 2008, in my personal life that is. Happy New year, AD!

  • 40lizard

    Happy New Year to you and yours AD!Be safe out there!

  • 40lizard

    Happy New Year to you and yours AD!Be safe out there!

  • Rogue Medic

    I was enjoying having the night off. I make up for that by working too many hours this weekend.

  • Rogue Medic

    I was enjoying having the night off. I make up for that by working too many hours this weekend.

  • Recovering Grady Addict

    My NYE shift was a 24. Thankfully Way Outta Atlanta EMS has a low call volume. My day was a VERY VERY sick 20 month old in near respiratory FAILURE. Ya remember… how they reach you that if mum and dad don’t watch a respiratory infection children will suddenly decompensate. Not a myth, I discovered this was true!Then at 230am the county exploded (by their standards. All five trucks were out on calls and we turned over two calls to Crappy Competetor. And it was over. I was lucky to get the 20yo male who tied on his first one. Vodka. Harry Potter was now Voldemort, and loosing his mind. (no really he LOOKED like timid lil Harry Potter!) I dodged a few of his slow-mo punches. And survived his 200 F-Bombs. Still a piece of cake compaired to a Grady EMS New Years Eve. (I think I missed the sound of automatic gun fire for 3 hours after midnite!)

  • Recovering Grady Addict

    My NYE shift was a 24. Thankfully Way Outta Atlanta EMS has a low call volume. My day was a VERY VERY sick 20 month old in near respiratory FAILURE. Ya remember… how they reach you that if mum and dad don’t watch a respiratory infection children will suddenly decompensate. Not a myth, I discovered this was true!Then at 230am the county exploded (by their standards. All five trucks were out on calls and we turned over two calls to Crappy Competetor. And it was over. I was lucky to get the 20yo male who tied on his first one. Vodka. Harry Potter was now Voldemort, and loosing his mind. (no really he LOOKED like timid lil Harry Potter!) I dodged a few of his slow-mo punches. And survived his 200 F-Bombs. Still a piece of cake compaired to a Grady EMS New Years Eve. (I think I missed the sound of automatic gun fire for 3 hours after midnite!)

  • Cybrludite

    Be very glad you weren’t down here in my part of the state. NOLA rang in the new year with three murders.

  • Cybrludite

    Be very glad you weren’t down here in my part of the state. NOLA rang in the new year with three murders.

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