Finally, a decent call.

My supervisor, another emt, and I were watching a sweet musical (Jesus Christ Superstar) when our pagers went off. Good timing, right during the final song. It was a weird moment, when all of us jerk up when the vibrating pager went off.

"Head Injury. No detail."

Oh crap.

All three of us start jogging out to the truck parked in the driveway, then halfway there we sprinted for it.

Lights and some sirens, speeding down a lane in 5 seconds that normally takes me a minute to bike.

The guy looked fine, but had blacked out. Crap.

A car full of guys had driven up to him, rushed him, mugged him, and popped him on the head with....something....then drove away.

After awhile, we finally convinced the guy to go to the hospital. I was frozen by now, since my friend who wasn't on duty needed my official EMS hoodie...to look official...

Things are getting pretty nasty.

College isn't safe. Be careful guys and girls.

Wow that was a hectic month. Combine living at the ER on the weekends with crazy biochemistry studying and epi lectures to give...

I am going to miss my ER rotations. A lot. The one particular hospital I spend every weekend at, a county hospital level one trauma center, has basically been my new home this semester.

I am going to miss:

• The really nice pediatric trauma fellow who loved to let us do cool things like hold a screaming kid while he stitched up a 8 inch laceration while thoroughly explaining everything he was doing as he was doing it. First of all, pediatric trauma? Wow. Second, a really really nice guy/doctor in a super busy ER who obviously has better things to do than show EMT students cool random things on the xray scans? Now that's rare.
• The smell of vomit, feces, urine, sweat, blood, rotting flesh, cleaning solution. Oh wait, never mind, I have a weak sense of smell =)
• The helicopter pad. I swear if I find a really cool girlfriend, I am going to bring her to the top. On a clear night. Yes.
  
• One word: nurses.
  

Quick reminders to myself for the future:

• Please please keep extra gloves in your pocket.
• DO NOT BE A WALLFLOWER. Seriously. That is the only thing separating our class from all of the normal paramedic students.
• Stop with the AC IV's.

On a related note, I started an IV on myself the other night. Sweet. Now I just need to keep the ingredients for an banana bag in my room for those pesky hangovers =)

More on my first ambulance shifts later on.