28 February, 2009. 3:05 AM.

Went to Game Knight for the first time tonight (last night? Friday night, regardless). Game Knight is a group of students who get together on Fridays and play games in the lounge. One of these games is a little something known as Lap Tag. Basically, there are two circles of people, the outer circle sits with their legs apart and the inner circle sits in between their legs. Someone from the outer circle does not have anyone in his or her lap, and calls two names from the inside. Those people have to fight like hell against the people who are sitting behind them to get to the person who called their name. It’s fun, but in the past, has been known to cause injuries. Minor injuries, mostly rugburn and the like.

We had played maybe seven or eight rounds when a friend of mine was called. Everything went normally until, as emergencies so often occur, in a fraction of a second, he was on the floor, holding his leg, which was bulging in a place that it shouldn’t have been. Everyone crowded around him and someone yelled to call BEMCo. I took my phone to the lobby and called from there, because there’s no service in the lounge. Even in the lobby, I had trouble getting out the location clearly, so it took longer than it should have. I stood out in the rain and held the door open for the tertiary, and as the primary and secondary arrived. Everyone in the room had split off into their own little groups, now that it was clear the he was doing well—general consensus was that his leg cramped and that he panicked. Ten minutes later, everything was back to normal.

Calliope, who is also dating a BEMCo person (still need to find the best way to word this), told me afterwards that I did the right thing by calling. I was worried that it wasn’t necessary, started wondering what Matt would have said. But coming from Calliope, who is in the same position that I am, I felt alright.

As for Matt, he’s at the NCEMSF (National Collegiate EMS Foundation) conference this weekend. I don’t know much about what went on—Vince gave a talk about Acute Alcohol Intoxication and it was incredibly well-received. Matt couldn’t even get into the room to hear it. Any other information I have is definitely confidential, but can be summed up with the overarching statement that EMS personnel know how to have a good time.