Home Sweat home

After 16 hours at MDA it is nice to be home and be able to take my shoes off. But it was all in all a great day.

where shall I start in tonight's post? I shall start from the beginning I guess. The very beginning. I woke up at 5:30 left the house at 6 and caught the 6:15 bus. I arrived at 6:30 expecting to do an MICU shift but eventually I learned differently.

why I didn't do MICU shift:

1.) Driver -1 spot

2.) Paramedic -1spot

3.) paramedic student was there -1 spot

4.) Daniel Elbo, one of my friends who recently moved from Hertziliyah had arranged to volunteer with the paramedic. -1 spot

Now me I am in an authority position and probably I could of kicked Elbo off, but I like Daniel were friends, so I could of rotated call call with Daniel but lets face it, Its ALS we usually have two calls a shift what's the point of doing call call?! Plus Mishel was there; Now I like Mishel he is a nice driver, and more important Mishel kfells over me. So the second he saw me in the station his first words were are you here to do a shift with me. What am I going to say? No!? I just don't have the heart (you may substitute heart for any other organ) to say no.

So I did a shift with Mishel. It worked out great.

So what did I miss on the MICU today you may ask

1.) CPR (assystole)

2.) Heart attack

3.) heart attack

4.) arrithmias

don't remember what else......

What did we have....

wow I don't really remember

1.) chest pains (MI)

2.) We took some body back to their sanitarium.

3.) I really don't remember any of the other calls.

I think my brain kicks out unimportant calls in order to make room for other information.

So all in all not a bad first 8 hours.

Second shift:

I had to instruct so naturally instead of the two I was supposed to coach 4 came instead. What ever they took rotations it worked out ok.

The driver: So boaz was supposed to do a shift on the BLS today. Boaz kicks ass he really does. He is the chief paramedic in Kfar Saba, and it is definitely a title he deserves. But last managed boaz had to move to Ramat Hasharon's atan because they had no paramedic leaving volunteer drivers to have to fill in the gap.

the first volunteer from 3-5:30ish was ok. He seemed un sure in his self nothing to worry about I took care of everything.

We had one call with him. An Arab lady at Cayon Arim fell on the escalator split open her foot. I but pressure dressing and fixed the "deadly trauma".... A few stitches and she"LOL b back to normal.

Then after That Yair Shilo came. He was cool not really anything with him. But we went to get Pizza with him. So that was good. So I ate. So I didn't starve on my 16 hour shift.

To tired to write any more. I'm sorry if parts of tonight's post don't make sense fatigue is a great thing.

Aaron