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Originally Posted by Jet_Engine1

Can you please send that memo to my wife? I just finished a stretch that included two 48 hour tours with only one day rest in between a regular shift, then an OT detail of 14 hours. Amounted to about 144 hours worked in a 7 day period.

During that stretch I had two GSWs to the head where the patients had pulses, were breathing, and had a good blood pressure. Oh, and if you carry.... lose the 9mms and .380s,!! AT LEAST go .40cal....Had a guy with a rectal bleed pull the 'ol "Expode n' Code" on my stretcher while walking into the hospital... whatever clot that was holdin' it all in went and he let out about 2 liters of GI Blood and about coded. Able to intubate, get a large bore line and fluids in him, but real mess......Had a 3 year old kid drown that I had to yank out of a pool (at his gradpas house),we worked that kid like champions, and at least from what I hear hes in PICU and possibly gonna be alright....add in an extrication from an MVC or Two, then finish up with a Fire at a Tire Wearhouse that wound up being a 2 Alarm response that took a day to get a full knock down on....and then, oh, yeah, My Dad went in for Knee Replacement Surgery Wednesday.....

Man, I need a drink.

That's a full plate. I did 10 years in the fire service but never went for the EMT cert. I was happy driving the bus and riding as the attendant, except for the occasional projectile vomiting/explosive diarrhea. And hauling obese patients, which were like 80% of them. Had the pipe on a bunch of jobs with engine before switching to truck, loved that sh:t.