Guest guest Posted May 14, 2008 Report Share Posted May 14, 2008 Dang-it.....thought I might avoid this rendition of TRUE CONFESSIONS in EMS but since I qualify SO WELL for the club here goes - Jack Schmitz & Sons Funeral Home Ambulance (Denton, Texas) in 1974, EMT class (Westgate Hospital Denton) 1974 - skills tested by Gene Weatherall & Jimmy Dunn no less, Paramedic training (Westgate) 1975-76, Denton Fire (1978-79), ETMC-EMS since 1979. BUT more importantly - EMStock helper & attendee since 2003 (my favorite academy of all). Did any of you 30 year+ guys ever believe you would still be in EMS in 2008 when you started? Don, Tyler =========================================================== This message is confidential, intended only for the named recipient(s) and may contain information that is privileged or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient(s), you are notified that the dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you received this message in error, or are not the named recipient(s), please notify the sender and delete this e-mail from your computer. ETMC has implemented secure messaging for certain types of messages. For more information about our secure messaging system, go to: http://www.etmc.org/mail/ Thank you. =========================================================== Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 14, 2008 Report Share Posted May 14, 2008 Dang, Don....After doing this for 33 years, I wasn't thinking I'd still be alive in 2008.....much likely still involved in EMS! Mike , LP Longview, TX > Dang-it.....thought I might avoid this rendition of TRUE CONFESSIONS in > EMS but since I qualify SO WELL for the club here goes - Jack Schmitz & > Sons Funeral Home Ambulance (Denton, Texas) in 1974, EMT class (Westgate > Hospital Denton) 1974 - skills tested by Gene Weatherall & Jimmy Dunn no > less, Paramedic training (Westgate) 1975-76, Denton Fire (1978-79), > ETMC-EMS since 1979. BUT more importantly - EMStock helper & attendee > since 2003 (my favorite academy of all). > > Did any of you 30 year+ guys ever believe you would still be in EMS in > 2008 when you started? > > Don, Tyler > > > > > > > =========================================================== > This message is confidential, intended only > for the named recipient(s) and may contain > information that is privileged or exempt from > disclosure under applicable law. If you are > not the intended recipient(s), you are notified > that the dissemination, distribution or copying > of this message is strictly prohibited. If you > received this message in error, or are not the > named recipient(s), please notify the sender > and delete this e-mail from your computer. > > ETMC has implemented secure messaging for > certain types of messages. For more information > about our secure messaging system, go to: > > http://www.etmc.org/mail/ > > Thank you. > =========================================================== > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 14, 2008 Report Share Posted May 14, 2008 In a message dated 05/14/2008 13:42:15 Central Daylight Time, delbert@... writes: Did any of you 30 year+ guys ever believe you would still be in EMS in 2008 when you started? Don, Tyler Chuckle...I started pushing bed pans in 1973, worked my way up from there...always planned to retire when there was no more work... guess I'll be working for a few more years... ck S. Krin, DO FAAFP **************Wondering what's for Dinner Tonight? Get new twists on family favorites at AOL Food. (http://food.aol.com/dinner-tonight?NCID=aolfod00030000000001) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 14, 2008 Report Share Posted May 14, 2008 Wow, , you turned on some more lights. The first ambulance I ever drove was the funeral home's Buick station wagon. It had a GE 100 watt radio, and when you keyed it up the lights dimmed. When you keyed it up and hit the Q at the same time, the engine would miss. LOL. I loved the Q. We would wind it up as we left the funeral home and it would still be coasting when we passed the city limit sign a mile away. We were on 37.180 and sometimes when the skip was right we could hear Jersey City, NJ cops talking. We also smoked in the ambulance in those days. The " style " was to have a cig in your mouth, your right arm draped over the seat back, steering with your left hand, running the siren with your left foot, and hitting 125 on the way to Dallas. (Don Elbert, I know you know what I mean. BTW, didn't Schmitz and Son have a green and white Mercury station wagon ambulance? I seem to remember that from when I was at North Texas.) Our first stretcher was I guess the original Ferno. I can't even remember the model, but it did not elevate. It had that " wagon handle " on it so you could pull it along, and you lifted it into the ambulance. Even with that one, the patient's nose was 6 inches from the roof in the back of that station wagon. Forget about CPR, which wasn't invented anyway. I remember once taking a patient from the hospital in Bonham to Parkland. The patient had an IV and I had to hold the bottle up all the way because there was no IV pole. Occasionally when it seemed not to be running well I would hold it out the window. I'm not kidding. There were no plastic IV bags then. The oxygen system had a humidifier hooked to it. To my knowledge the water was never changed in it. Legionnaire's may have originated right there in that humidifier. Also, there was one mask, a solid black rubber one. We would wash it with soap and water when we thought about it, which didn't happen unless the patient threw up or there was blood on it. Oxygen was either on or off. We wore suits and ties on all calls, and when you had a call during the night you got dressed, tied your tie, and so forth before you left. We made up for slow chute time with speed, however. Scene times were short. You picked them up, slung them on the cot and hauled ass. Some funeral homes had a policy that if there was a stiff on the scene you latched onto it and left the live ones. We didn't do that, but I know some did. There is a famous picture that I wish I had which came from Houston, I think, where it shows two ambulance crews struggling over who got the body. They literally had it in a tug of war. Anybody still have a copy of that pic? When I came back home after the Army and college and a few years of work and got involved with non-funeral home EMS and got my Red Cross First Aid, I thought I was hot stuff. When I took the Advanced First Aid Course I was convinced of it. It was fun to be young and stupid. Now I'm just old. Gene G. > > No....did not think that I would have stayed with it this long.? I had to > chuckle at Gene's previous post in regards to the fine splinting jobs we did > back then......the perpetual deformed hands you developed utilizing the early > style bag valve mask.? The use of the Emerson resuscitator.No....did not think > that I would have stayed with it this long.? I had to chuckle at Gene's > previous post in regards to the fine splinting jobs we did back then......the > perpetual deformed hands you developed utilizing the early style bag valve > mask.? The use of the Emerson resuscitator.<wbr>.....How very proud of our selves > we were as to how fast and how proficient we were when?applying a half > ring?or multiple No....did not think that I would have stayed with it > this long.? I had to chuckle at Gene's previous post in regards to the > fiNo....did not think that I would have stayed with it this long.? I had to chuckle > at Gene's previous post in regards to the fine splinting jobs we did back > then......the perpetual deformed hands you develo > > > > Re: Re: THE DINOs > > In a message dated 05/14/2008 13:42:15 Central Daylight Time, > delbert@... writes: > > Did any of you 30 year+ guys ever believe you would still be in EMS in 2008 > when you started? > > Don, Tyler > > Chuckle...I started pushing bed pans in 1973, worked my way up from > there...always planned to retire when there was no more work... > > guess I'll be working for a few more years... > > ck > S. Krin, DO FAAFP > > ************ ************<wbr>**Wondering what's for Dinner Tonight? Get new > favorites at AOL Food. > (http://food.http://food.<wbhttp://food.http://food.<wbrhttp) > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 14, 2008 Report Share Posted May 14, 2008 No....did not think that I would have stayed with it this long.? I had to chuckle at Gene's previous post in regards to the fine splinting jobs we did back then......the perpetual deformed hands you developed utilizing the early style bag valve mask.? The use of the Emerson resuscitator......How very proud of our selves we were as to how fast and how proficient we were when?applying a half ring?or multiple half ring splints (yes with crevats), the low top units (station wagons, cadilac high tops, suburbans, 1/2 ton chevy, ford, and dodge vans with the 3 speed shifter on the column and the 10 ft whip antennas).? The sound of the old GE and Motorola dynamotor radios whining when you transmitted.? The sound of the old PA 15 or PA 20 Federal Signal sirens and of course the venerable Q2B.? Model 30 kick style stretchers........do I go on......No I never thought I would make it in EMS this long......But so long as ny and Roy were there cheering me on.....It kept me going through all of those early years....just amazing! Re: Re: THE DINOs In a message dated 05/14/2008 13:42:15 Central Daylight Time, delbert@... writes: Did any of you 30 year+ guys ever believe you would still be in EMS in 2008 when you started? Don, Tyler Chuckle...I started pushing bed pans in 1973, worked my way up from there...always planned to retire when there was no more work... guess I'll be working for a few more years... ck S. Krin, DO FAAFP **************Wondering what's for Dinner Tonight? Get new twists on family favorites at AOL Food. (http://food.aol.com/dinner-tonight?NCID=aolfod00030000000001) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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