EMS "week"

    I'm still thinking of a song to go with this blog post, but haven't come up with one yet.

 It's "EMS WEEK!"  I didn't realize a whole week was dedicated to what my colleagues do! I was over at the fire station, minding my own Gawd Damn Bizness for 20 or so years.  Not paying attention to what they did for me.  They made me look good!!!

   I don't deserve to be a part of EMS Week, because what these people do is amazing!  The people I get to work with will amaze you.  Such knowledge and a genuine thirst to help others.  I'm grateful that they have accepted me as one of their own.  I'm grateful they made me part of their family, because that's really what it is. It's a family.  MY family.

  I HATED EMS a mere two years ago.  Thanks to the people I have met, I now have a career goal in place when I leave the fire service.  Thanks to these wonderful people, I now have a purpose in life.  A second purpose.  I love what I have done in the fire service.  I made ZERO friends, I just met new brothers and sisters.

  Little did I know, I would make an entire new family when I entered EMS.  And I just thought of the song for this blog.  "Take A Picture"

Take A Picture

There are too many people to name at this point.  What I have learned from EMS, I would simply like to remind you, THANK YOU to  those that have taught me.  EMS has taught me so much, I wish the same upon those willing to learn!

1. You are there on they're worst day.  They called 911 FOR YOU.  FOR YOU!
2. Hands.  Your hands hold life and death. You get to decide what your hands do. Your patient doesn't.
3. That NREMT test was just that, a test.  Welcome to our trauma arrest world!
4. Start time is Mandatory!!  End of shift time is optional.
5.  There is nothing we would rather do!

  I'm grateful for the Nurses, the firefighters, my co-workers.  From accident, to ED I get to see it all now, and I want to be the one.

  I got you!  My name is Bill, I'll take care of you on the way to the hospital.