Brad's (now retired!) Firefighter/Paramedic...and Other Misc Info..

So my vacation starts...and I'm sore....I'm building visqueen windows for my gazebo (with hot tub inside) to block the wind in the winter. I used to just wrap the whole thing but decided to make these reusable windows. I'm sore because I did a lot of bending and screwing in awkward positions (knock it off you perverts!!!). Anyway...if I get a chance, I'll take a picture of it with cam phone or regular camera and let those that are interested take a look...

On the last Tuesday of the month we check dates and quantities of all our drugs and supplies. It's a necessary evil but a real pain. Up-to-date drugs are exchanged with nearly expired drugs, if any, and then replaced. All along while trying to run calls and throwing the truck back together so you can find everything during a call. On the other hand, it's time for a vacation!!! I usually take of 3 shifts around our anniversary (10/30) (12 years) in case we go anywhere. This year we're going to Mt. Pleasant, MI to meet up with a friend coming from Colorado to visit her parents. We'll stay at a B&B there for a couple of days. ......and I'll try to phone or laptop blog from there......no really!!!! Business-wise, we had our weekly conference call for the business last night which was as good as it always is. We're trying a free conferencing service that you only have to pay for a long distance call. Since most of us have free long distance through MCI or our cel...

Just started playing with the Rent-My-Blog feature of Blogexplosion and my very first renter is..... Haunted House Dressings by Jeremy C. Shipp!!.. Thanks Jeremy and may your traffic and readership both climb!!!

I couldn't blog from the campground because I was on roam...Oh well...We did have a great time though!!!. Very relaxing.. And the picture is of my 2 nephews at the Covered Bridge festival....

Ok..maybe I lied... Maybe I will post by phone blogging while camping if I have service...

We're going camping in the area of the cover bridge festivals in Rockville, IN. The only thing we could find was a primitive site (no electric) but we don't care. My sister-in-law just got back from Louisiana for the Red Cross and set this weekend up for us. So...no blogging from now (October 13) until Next week sometimes... I know, how can you possibly be without my inciteful wisdom?????? Well Just look long longingly at my archive, I guess...LOL. Just got off the station and nothing exciting except the man that went into the police department and wanted them to shoot him...because he was in so much pain. From what? I'm not sure...was a bit hard to understand but I know he had been depressed lately so his wife showed up and took him into the hospital herself...could she have decided that before waking us up at 4:30 AM? ...Was that insensitive?? And just got our XS energy drink...in root beer!!! Go here if you want more info...no carbs, no sugar, 4900% B12 and more!!! Wo...

So we back up a nearby community thta needed a total of at least 3 amblulances for at least 5 kids aged 12-16 that took unknown substances and were semi-conscious. We ended up not transporting but the other community had their ambulances available. I guess Jimson weed was the culprit. They were alone at home but were chatting with online with some other kids. The mom of those kids was alerted and since they lived close, went to the home and the called 911. I never even drank at that age but I may have been a sheltered,shy kid also...LOL. Kids were hallucinating a bit but should be fine.

Well another 10 calls (by the way, if you want a peek at some of our stats and other info about our department, go to http://www.cpfire.com/ ) . 3 back to back including a full arrest and a “man down in the street”. We get to that call and the patient can’t tell us what happened but is cover in blood from head to chest and abdomen….so being the optimist that we medics are…we first look for bullet holes…but can’t find any. We do get out of the pt that he is “very drunk” (Surprise!) and we think he got hit in the head with an unknown object by, of course, by unknown subjects…which later found to be true. He apparently cut someone off while driving (another surprise…hmmm, drinking and driving….) who then got out of the car with a baseballbat and wacked our pt in the head a few times… hence all the blood ( any cut to the head bleeds a lot !). An on the business side, we’ve just been called to host the speaker this Saturday. We’ve known the speaker since we have both been at the same level…...

Well, our Fire Department softball team played the special ed softball team in an exhibition game today. Our police department did the same earlier in the day. No, really... I know it sounds funny but this team finished 2nd in the state in their class! Since our team isn't that good anyway, it was funny to hear their coach say to make it more interesting, they would put some of the bigger players in that had just played the police....I don't think they know how bad we are!!! LOL!! Anyway they had quite a good team but we won. Their players were not severly handicapped and we may not have played quite as hard as we normally would have in a regular game but everyone had a good time and that's what it was all about anyway...and no, Ididn't play since I'm on duty...not to mention pretty bad myself!!!

On another note to get more hits (even though as you can see on the counters, I flew by 10,000!!) someone said instead of "sex", "nude" etc, I should put things like Paris Hilton or Paris Hilton tape....but I would never do that. I have too much integrity...no, really.......he, he, he.....

Shift almost over and as I type, our other unit is out on a car vs pedestrian call...which more often then not are not as bad as it sounds (eg pedestrian walked into a moving car,etc). Not this one...1 dead pedestrian....don't know the details, they're still at scene....and we just got back from...you guessed it...an automatic fire alarm at the nursing home...the 3rd of the shift, all faulty equipment.

Well my other hit counter is coming up on 10000 hits!!! Another grand prize of major appreciation for the 10000th visitor!!! And, assuming that the possibilty of no one ever reading this from now on doesn't exist, I'll be celebrating this momentous occasion at work!!!! I may just give an extra amp of dextrose to some lucky person out there! On a business note, 1 of our support team members conference called with me and one of my team leaders last night to strategize and give us some inside information on how Legacy got started. It was very interesting... As I thought about the business more, I really didn't want to go to work today..don't get me wrong, I still love my job but know I can't retire from it until I get a better level of income...residual income at that (that's where money comes in after the initial work is done...no matter what you do..you can even be on vacation!!). And while I'm at work, I feel that it's not right to talk to sick, hurt, or...

So if I refer to Google Zeitgeist will I get more hits? It says it's "Search patterns, trends, and surprises according to Google".. Just curious....... Ok, maybe this is another ploy to get more hits like my earlier attempts at the words "sex", "breast", and "nude".... There I go Again...LOL

There's Google search, Google talk, Google IM, now Google WiFi in our future!!! There's an investment club at the station and I told them Google should be their next purchase...but at $312 a share, they couldn't do it. So what do you think of the impending Google World? Since I have an internet based business, I figure the more internet exposure in general, the better!

So we go to the nursing home for a "routine" automatic fire alarm only to find an elevator transformer burning up and a person stuck in an elevator. No real danger for her but who wants to be stuck there? Anyway, as she walks out of the nursing home after opening the door, a lady comes out the front door where I was at, She asks" Is that what you opened the door with" pointing to the pike pole we use (a pole with a hook basically). I didn't know who she was thinking she was a bystander and said "Yep, that's our manual elevator door opener" and laughed....she swore at me and pushed by me. Hey, I would've been nicer if I new she was a former trapped elevator rider!!

So it didn't work out like I hoped but I did get twice as much sleep as last shift!!! That's 4 hours!!! WooooHooooo!!!! .........................Migraines (whose husband insisted on blowing stop signs with me while I used lights and sirens....so I shut down the lights and the siren and went with normal traffic...too dangerous to let civilians run stop signs and lights with me), automatic fire alarms ..again.., and dizzy people..I mean they were really dizzy...not weird..... BTW how would I post without periods???...........................................................

I didn't realize I had my "comments on post" turned off.... .....................comment away!!! ... (unless you hurt my feelings) LOL and here's hoping I get a few more hours of sleep at the station tonight!!!!

6 calls after midnight and just a whole lotta fun!!! We had falling down drunks almost home, bad accidents with unrestrained projectiles of people going through windows, automatic fire alarms with storm going through the area, and a whole lotta coffee!!!

The last 2 posts made were from my phone during the conference...but I sent then to the wrong place...so I forwarded them tonight to the right spot from my phone (just to verify it was working). The thought was there though!! LOL Bruce Wilkinson , author of "The Dream Giver" and "The Prayer of Jabez" and many more bestsellers, was 1 of the speakers and was awesome!!! I can't believe some of the guest speakers Legacybusinessgroup comes up with along with people that are successful in the business also. Ron Ball was also there...just amazing...

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