I had a WONDERFUL time seeing Rachel and John this weekend! Really, John left for his retreat and it was just Rachel and I, so we went to chipotles and brought it back for dinner, and then we rigged up John's computer and began the Sailor Moon Marathon! It was fantastic, OH the memories. We used to run home off the bus (and the bus would stop at ( Read more... )

I am a North Carolina and National Registry certified Paramedic employed at Cumberland County EMS :D I have a health check today at 1300 hours, and the job starts Monday with Hospital Orientation at Cape Fear Valley. I am SO excited! (My uniform shirts say "Paramedic" on them. I told the Home Security guy yesterday that "was a paramedic for ( Read more... )

I hope I do not speak to soon since I'm taking the National Registry written exam tomorrow, but I passed the State test, so I'm a North Carolina Registered Paramedic regardless of passing National Registry. I also passed National Registry skills yesterday. That was probably hands down the most nerve racking thing I have ever done. Worse then public ( Read more... )

It's very stressful trying to figure out where I'm going to work after this class is over. I'm almost 100% positive I could get a job at Cumberland County (which is the busiest system in this area) but I don't want to say for sure because pride does go before the fall and I don't have any EMS experience on my resume. That said, I have one of ( Read more... )

Yesterday, my alarm went of at 0555 like usual on class days and as I was laying in bed trying to think up a good enough reason not to go, I hear a bird whistle outside my window. A bird! I have not heard any birds (except the neurotic rooster with zero sense of time that lives somewhere near the apartment complex) since I dunno, November? October ( Read more... )

You have been warned ( Read more... )

I am caught up on all tests so I don't need to study. Clinicals are done for the day, so I'm at home. The insurance people closed so I can't do anything home insurance related (which I need to). I've actually got an hour of free time before getting ready for bed/stuff for tomorrow. Usually, I spend this time with Brian, but since he's at CLT, it's ( Read more... )

So, one of my friends in the paramedic class is Katerzhena....Kasha or Kat for short. She's Polish, came over to the US as an au par (spelling?), got her bacholor's degree in English, met her husband in college, and has lived here ever since. She's got a dry, dark sense of humor, and legitimately scares some people, but she's a good paramedic and ( Read more... )

I know I'm a day late. February 6th is the only good day in February and I missed it! Well, actually, I got one and a half feet of my hair chopped off and then nursed my H1N1 contaminasted husband through a nasty shot afterkick of fever/headache/chills. I miss my wife ( Read more... )

bad first: I have a wonderful case of gastroenteritis. Commonly known as "the stomach flu" although it has zero relation to the influenza virus and is not a flu at all. I drug myself (mentally kicking and screaming) to the ER at Womack after over 24 hours of vomiting and diarrhea. All I wanted was fluids, and if I had had my own normal saline I ( Read more... )