Comments | bonesyboyo: the snow flakes rebel

bonesyboyo

the snow flakes rebel

Dec 07, 2007 16:24

Well hell I seemed to detect bullshit in the late afternoon. Read the Paris Review on the toilet which is the only place to fully enjoy the shit. Oh , not true sometimes they do have good interviews. But all those writers are dead and Norman Mailer made the papers the last time around. Though I haven't slept I'm all fumes and vigor. I haven an ( Read more... )

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noisesnob December 8 2007, 01:14:54 UTC

I'll see you tomorrow night!!!
PS Hanukah dinner at my folks house sunday night, k?

4everapologetic December 8 2007, 01:39:31 UTC

i miss cursing the winter with you

mountainsud December 14 2007, 17:06:58 UTC

we got 14 inches of snow and were stuck in a cave for a day, i love the white fluffy stuff, our jobs seem similar, do you often feel like a glorified babysitter for people who can't take care of themselves?

Pulse Ox bonesyboyo December 16 2007, 02:13:35 UTC

That really depends on the call. I've been with 98 year olds who could tell you about days you've never seen before. Or I've gone on calls where a young girl in lockup can't tell whether or not she wants to live to see the next day. It's all very circumstantial. The training I have is often very automatic, and the paramedics give us additional information. Everything just comes but half of the job is actually trying to listen to what people are telling you. Some will refuse to talk to you but there are ways of uncovering their illness. It's alittle mysticism with a little medicine. I've talked to patients about some very cryptic things before. I wouldn't call it babysitting. Sometimes it's a futile attempt to save a life that will expire quicker than you'd like. It can be as simple as reassuring them that you can control whatever is after them. Or as hard as losing that control and the person volunteers for that eventually end. Had one patient whom on transport was cyanotic(blue skin tone." Something was definately going on that she ( ... )

cat scratch fever noisesnob December 19 2007, 08:17:13 UTC

I love being white trash with you.

Re: cat scratch fever bonesyboyo December 19 2007, 23:53:06 UTC

Hah that PBR hit the spot as it were.I had like 16 patients in two days. You hit my spot as it were.. For Christmas our secretery Carol got the crew these blue blankets with SWAC embroidered on it. It looks like a dark blue version of Linus blanket.

noisesnob December 20 2007, 03:21:29 UTC

oooh thats the one you want me under, eh?