Paul covered Matt’s shift today—Matt and I are going to see Daniel’s orchestra at Symphony Hall. At 10:00 AM. 7:49 commuter rail, anyone? After going to bed at 3:30, it seems crazy. People on call usually get more sleep than this. There will be naps.
Ran into Kassie (and by that I mean “went to her room and talked for a bit”) and she told me that over break, she was at a funeral when a man coded. A medic appeared out of nowhere and someone was a nurse practitioner. The medic started CPR while she did breaths. Her cousin tried to pull her away from the scene and afterward Kassie “bitched her out.”
She said that CPR in real life is nothing like practice CPR. The air coming out of his mouth made it look like he was aspirating, he was greyer than she ever thought possible, and although she wasn’t doing compressions, I imagine that it feels a lot different to do them on someone not made of foam and that thing that clicks when you’ve gone far enough.
The man opened his eyes and took a breath. Color came back immediately. Said, “I feel much better now.”
I had something to add to the end of this entry, but I’ve completely forgotten. Yay for early mornings. On a side note that I can remember, went to visit friends at Clark and WPI. Clark had an article about how CU-EMS should get funding from Public Safety and not Student Activities money and Carlos told me that WPI EMS get Segways. Matt is not sure why that would be useful. Carlos’s friend pointed out that they can go 15 mph. I don’t know.
Gah. There was something else. I wish I could remember. Oh well. It was probably just something all silly and wait. I need to stop typing before this goes in bad directions.
Oh! I remember. Found a screenplay I wrote as a middle schooler. It is about a girl who is 16 or 17 and is an EMT. It is titled, so, so artistically, EMTeen. It was performed for the first and only time last night. Although apparently it’s more HAZMATeen, as I realized at a recent glance I made at it. Oh middle school. You made us create so many bad things.
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2 interesting notes:
ReplyDelete1) I was fully planning on going to the symphony yesterday. My mom works there, and I work at Tanglewood over the summers, so I get free tickets. Alas, work and BEMCo got in the way, so I did not make it...
2) My best friend is on ClarkEMS. While visiting him a few weeks ago, we ended up crashing one of their E-board meetings, and they were fascinated by the fact that Brandeis has a real vehicle, etc. I hope to do some CEs with them this coming year.
3) Segways travel at 15km, 12.5mph.
seriously, people should not die at funerals.
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