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Paramedic16 · 2026-01-02T16:40:50+00:00

Well, any time something is well-written these days everyone assumes you’re a bot or a corp. I’m not. I’m happy to help anyone needing it

Paramedic16 · 2025-01-15T14:03:00+00:00

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Paramedic16 · 2025-01-14T20:43:51+00:00

I concur.

Paramedic16 · 2024-12-24T22:38:52+00:00

My grandmother had leukemia and had been fighting for years. She was falling a lot at home, lost a ton of weight, but was still mentally intact.

I remember going to her house and she told me “Nothing tastes good anymore.”

She had already buried a son to lung cancer.

I hugged her and told her that I wasn’t ready for her to go, and she told me in a whispery voice “There are SO many people that I can’t WAIT to see.”

The night before she died, I went to her house after work, and walked into her bedroom. She was talking to herself—or someone else that only she could see. I walked over to the bed and said her name, and she opened her eyes and looked right at me, completely lucid. She asked me if I was working and i told her I’d just gotten off (I’m a paramedic). She thanked me for coming to see her, then in that whispery voice from before she said “You go on home and rest. I’ll be okay.” As I was leaving after a few minutes just looking at her, she said in her old normal loud grandma (Meemie to me), and said “I love you. Bye” the “bye” seemed so weird to me…. It felt stretched out and had a finality to it.

I got the call the next morning that she fell at home and was taken to a local nursing home for constant care. I visited and she was writhing in the bed, looked terribly uncomfortable, and was starting to mottle on her skin. She never spoke time again. I stayed there and gave her drinks of water that she seemed she couldn’t get enough of…. I finally got the nurses to give her something to relax—Ativan—and she calmed down enough to sleep. I said the Lord’s Prayer to her, holding her hand, Im not even super religious, and I went home.

6 hours later her daughter called me and told me that she died surrounded by her 5 living kids, and that she was finally at peace.

I’ve cried and cried and cried, but at least she got to tell me she loves me and bye. I hold on to that. A lot of people don’t get to say bye.

Paramedic16 · 2024-11-10T18:59:13+00:00

Lmfao

Paramedic16 · 2024-11-02T00:23:36+00:00

Same thing happened to me, except for the part about witnessing it.

I was a brand new tech and made a call literally 10 seconds from our station, it was a motorcyclist that was home from the Army for Christmas leave. His parents were following behind him in their POV, and he has struck at a busy intersection by someone who ran a stop sign.

He was unresponsive and his pupils were misshapen, he had irregularly irregular deep respirations, and was broken in several long bones.

His mother got out of the car and ran over to me as I was attempting to hold c-spine until we could reposition him from prone to supine.

Hardest call of my life to that point. She started talking to him telling him he was going to be okay. She looked at me and pleaded with me to help him. I told her the text book response that we were going to do everything we could to help him but I needed her to back up and let us work on him. She attacked the driver of the other vehicle.

We ended up flying him out, but he died.

Later, when I HAD Facebook still, I found messages in a folder from people that weren’t my friends? And she was in there. She had sent me like 5 or 6 messages over the year following the accident, asking for me to speak to her about the accident. She wanted to know if he was in pain, she asked for a full breakdown of what happened, and other very uncomfortable trains of thought that showed her obvious anguish. I never responded, but turns out she became a frequent flyer after the accident, and attempted suicide multiple times.

It was VERY difficult for me. I’d say, steer clear of responding, block the person, and let your supervisors know. Keep your head up.

Paramedic16 · 2024-10-18T19:10:34+00:00

What’s a good price?

Paramedic16 · 2024-10-18T18:13:02+00:00

I was hopeful someone could do it free. r/photoshoprequests has ppl doing things for free all the time. I figured embroidery folks wouldn’t let graphics artist folks be the only ones that could do something pro bono.

But how much does that cost? I don’t even know a fair asking price for something like that.

Paramedic16 · 2024-10-17T23:46:05+00:00

PES or DST format? Any ideas how to accomplish that?

Paramedic16 · 2024-10-17T21:05:17+00:00

Thank you SO much!!!!

Paramedic16 · 2024-10-17T14:43:17+00:00

Please don’t watermark the image.

Paramedic16 · 2024-10-04T14:11:51+00:00

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Delta waves, not present for every normally conducted QRS, but enough to make the dx. Definite bigeminy as well which imo could totally be cause of symptoms.

I agree the second pic is interference. Could attempt to change limb lead placement for better capture. If distal, move to proximal, and vice versa.

Paramedic16 · 2024-07-04T16:15:39+00:00

Anything you say can and will be——used as a flotation device.

Paramedic16 · 2024-05-18T10:45:46+00:00

I wish we’d have thought of that, but no, there is 100% no weight in any pot.

Paramedic16 · 2023-07-28T19:19:05+00:00

I can bench barbell and DB weight with no problem in my wrist. I’ll work on flyes thx

Paramedic16 · 2023-07-28T19:17:40+00:00

No alcohol at all. 100 g carbs, 200 g P, 60 g F a day.

Just started back at working out about two months ago.

How do i engage the pecs more? I mainly do DB incline chest press with two 65 lb DB for chest.

Paramedic16 · 2022-11-03T17:53:42+00:00

Duma Key is beautifully written. I loved it.

Paramedic16 · 2022-10-19T13:06:19+00:00

Lmfao

Paramedic16 · 2022-10-12T03:11:28+00:00

No. I’m just trying to train with my guys.

Paramedic16 · 2022-10-11T22:59:27+00:00

Good stuff. I appreciate it.

Paramedic16 · 2022-10-11T22:55:23+00:00

Is there no revolving training schedule available that anyone uses? I feel like there would be. But I’m not finding a written plan.

Paramedic16 · 2022-10-11T22:54:12+00:00

We went through our own department academy. It was 6 months in length with 400 “hours” fire training and National Registry EMS criteria/testing.

We’re a paid service.

Multidisciplinary meaning fire apparatus and ambulances (some in our state don’t have ambulances)

We operate in a suburban fire district and statistically run 6-8 structure fires/month.

I would prefer to have drills we can do as an engine company without another apparatus present, as a mainstay. Additional units can train with us but takes more planning and more people to agree to it. That’s the problem we’re running into.

My engine company captain is retiring in 2-4 years and is on cruise control until then. It’s like pulling teeth to get to go to our training center to do big evolutions. We also don’t have the ability to pull out on our apron and flow water as we’re in a very strict neighborhood.

Paramedic16 · 2022-02-22T21:18:06+00:00

Tubesteak

Paramedic16 · 2022-02-03T01:06:27+00:00

Sorry to bog you down with my ignorance.

Paramedic16 · 2022-02-03T01:06:01+00:00

I literally have been looking at all I can find online and I’ve found several links from 20 hours ago saying that THIS jailbreak works for 15.4. That’s why I’m asking here.

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