Tour 2

Wednesday Day Shift (0730-1530):
- PCR's (Patient Care Reports) are improving, so that's great!
- Still struggling to integrate theory and in-class scenarios into real-life situations... but that will come with time and experience!
- get 3 calls today... one crack addict in a VERY shady house with a possible OD. One schizo suffering from depression and who had possible suicidal thoughts after ingesting a lot of alcohol in the morning! and one chest pain with unknown diagnosis...
- had some down-time in the afternoon and went shopping again, lol. Went shopping at some old bookstore with a MILLION books! Also, was able to drop by the church for a quick look at the water damage to the Chinese side sound system and... from the looks of it... it's a goner! The amps at least... it looked like it was just pulled out of a swimming pool. That's how soaked it was! Sure hope the system was under warantee cause I honestly don't think it's going to operate again. I'm going to try to turn them on after they dry off and hope for the best, but very doubtful right now. *EDIT* Seems it works after all. Shocking!! Though it seems like one of the monitors is giving off static now.
- and worked an extra hour of overtime again!

Thursday Day Shift (0730-1730)
- wow, today was a long day. An hour overtime again. And pretty much non-stop all day long. We had to extend one of our hospital visits around 1pm just to have time to eat something for lunch!
- was informed to go into firefighting instead of becoming a paramedic. Cause of how crappy paramedics get treated by the city and the crappy dispatching and a whole whack load of other stupid things.
- had 5 calls today. One hypoglycemic (very little blood sugar) where we were surprised this person wasn't unconscious with how low their blood sugar level was. One highly intoxicated individual who passed out in the middle of a street after drinking yellow listerene. One badly dislocated elbow. One decreased level of consciousness with such a wide variety of issues that we still have no idea what was going on with this patient. And another decreased level of consciousness with feelings of dizziness and SOB (shortness of breath).

Friday Night Shift (1730-0730):
- for a Friday night, it wasn't too bad. Got 6 calls and about an hour of sleep.
- the first call we got was a drunk homeless guy who was complaining of having seizures... just so he could get a ride to the hospital and get free food. It's sad seeing them with nothing... but it's also stupid seeing them use the hospitals to get food and to tie up hospital assets cause now he has to have a bed so he can get checked out and keep other people with actual medical emergencies waiting... the nurse was really annoyed cause a 9 year old died in the emerg. earlier that day and it's like... man... though it was funny watching this guy 'pretend' to be having seizures in the hallway... and we'd be like, "what are you doing?" and he'd say "I'm seizing"!! sigh...
- second call was just a patient transport back home from the hospital. We found a possible psych-ward escapee on 17th ave that CPS ended up taking. Had a teen with a possible leg fracture. Got called for an assault where a guy was beat up bad and had some bleeding from the head, but he still wouldn't cooperate so CPS took him instead (and when the police finally found his ID... they were pretty shocked in an excited kind of way, so I think they got someone they've been after for a while... lol). And finished the night/early morning with someone with possible Septic shock but we found out the day after from one of the attending nurses that this patient actually had kidney failure (one of the rare times we actually find out what was actually WRONG with the patients we transport, lol).
- otherwise, another long night with little to no sleep.

Saturday Night Shift (1730-0730):
- another long night... with only half-an-hour of sleep. I should really consider firefighting, lol. That way I can at least get a couple hours of sleep every night shift!!
- 8 calls this night. One was a sore arm from a car accident with some cuts from the airbag. Had a SOB (shortness of breath) call that was resolved when the patient finally calmed down. Had a patient with abdominal pain.
- Got thrust into my first MAJOR trauma without any preparation as we were the second car on scene to a call we didn't receive (so no prior knowledge to what the call was about) and got sent with the crew of the first car and this patient had an unknown amount of knife wounds to his lower back and was bleeding out pretty badly. And even though he was bleeding out really badly, he was still fighting us while we were trying to save his life! lol... but then again, this patient also got pepper-sprayed by the police before medics arrived on scene too.
- One call was for a domestic disturbance where the patient either got slashed by a knife... or slashed herself with a knife, and was not cooperative either so CPS took her as well. Had a call where a VERY elderly patient slipped out of bed and couldn't get back up... so we ended up just checking her vitals and then more of less just lifting her back into bed. Finished the early morning with 2 patients at once (which we technically aren't supposed to do... but we did it because they were both simple enough patients we didn't want to bother anyone else in the early morning after a long night) The first one had drank 23 beers and had 3 lines of cocaine during the night and was complaining of his heart racing and we noticed that he was becoming paranoid. The second one was someone who got beat up and had continuous short-term memory loss which was strange cause he was perfectly fine except for cuts on his face... but then he started thinking we were psychic cause we knew information that he just gave us and we were like... ummm... okay there, lol.
- then went to church after the shift and fell asleep in my car right outside of the church cause I got there early and apparently people were staring at me while I was sleeping... or so I was told... strange.