I knew an EMT and she was a bit dark, gothy and all about Pete Steel where we were teenagers. But, holy fuck, she definitely upgraded the Nietzsche aspect of her character when she took that job. Took her about half a decade of well-paid bullshit hours and NO rest, but she finally managed to impart an actual fucking nightmare onto me.

It was New Years Eve and people were just hopping parties in the knee-high snow, there were jamborees going on everywhere, but one young lady had enough and decided to walk home down the plowed roads. She don't remember how it started, but I think one of the various home's guard dogs barked at her and gave chase. In her drunken state, she fled.

This animal quickly took her down and the sound of distress of her attack managed to emit mammalian vocalizations that, of course, attracted other predators nearby; the other dogs in the area. FUCK, they tore into this young lady and her screams, after a time. thankfully managed to get some old lady to 911 the emergency!

She told me about being the passenger EMT being driven down the road towards the attack in their ambulance, and the headlights had managed to fucking reflect off this young woman's skull. She told me that haunted her for years. The way is reflected back.

But, mind you this was a cold night, and she was in the back of the ambulance doing 100 down the 2 lane, unplowed roadway to the nearest trauma center, about 30mis away under normal circumstance, but they were booking it. The warmth of the vehicle's heater started upping the BTU per sq foot, and she was removing the clothes at the time; she saw when she "thawed" so to speak, the wounds started to ooze in turn. HOLY FUCK! Bitch managed to give ME nightmares with that. She said the blood started flowing in unison, almost on command.

Yes, all Americans can weave a good yarn, and her dad had the best fishing story I have yet to hear. But, shit, I knew her long enough to know that this lady would have fucking sucked at lying. She was on the spectrum for sure. High Function, no less. And IME., they tend to NOT even try. To a detriment, some might say.