Re: just ambulance drivers with the occasional bullet wizzing past our heads

[Guest guest]

why are  you on a scene with bullets whizzing past your heads?

jim davis

Subject: just ambulance drivers

To: " yahoo ems groups " <texasems-l >

Date: Tuesday, July 8, 2008, 2:15 PM

Maybe this will help the layperson understand why EMT's and

Paramedics get so mad about being called just " Ambulance Drivers " .

**This just describes a part of what we do, whether it is as a Vol Status or as

a Paid Person.

Standing in chest deep water, freezing rain falling and stinging as it hits the

exposed parts of my body.

Holding her head above water to keep her from drowning until rescue could get

there to cut her free

--- BUT WE'RE JUST AMBULANCE DRIVERS

Comforting a 89 year old woman who just watched me and my partner cover the face

of her husband of 64 years as he lay dead in their bathroom floor

--- BUT WE'RE JUST AMBULANCE DRIVERS

On scene at an MVA with mom trapped upside down in her car and her dead sons

body laying on top of her without a second thought for my own safety I crawl

into the wreckage to take C-spine control and calm the frantic lady

--- BUT WE'RE JUST AMBULANCE DRIVERS

Called away from my just prepared meal to respond to the middle of B.F.E to a

house with no numbers, no porch light on, nobody waiting to signal us in and

they bitch because we took too long only to find out the patient left P.O.V ten

minutes ago...so we smile and walk away from the verbal lashing only because we

are ---BUT WE'RE JUST AMBULANCE DRIVERS

Standing in the middle of the street after midnight on the wrong side of town

trying to patch the holes and stop the bleeding of a 19 year old shooting victim

with the occasional bullet wizzing past our heads we never break stride because

this kids life is in our hands

--- BUT WE'RE JUST AMBULNCE DRIVERS

Doing chest compressions on a 16 year old girl who decided this life was more

than she could take. Her family screaming at us to help as though we are the

ones who did this to her.

Trying to be understanding as her body flails about as the tube goes in and IV's

being started, my arms and back burning from the pain of CPR, never once giving

up, hoping she would make it through and over come whatever lead her to this bad

decision

---- BUT WE'RE JUST AMBULANCE DRIVERS

Death is all around me and still I go home to live my life

I get kicked, hit, punched, spit on, bled on, puked on...

I look into the eyes of a lifeless child at 7am and by 8 am I'm holding my child

a little tighter and they know nothing about what happened.

I have hundreds of hours of classroom time and years of in the field experience

I have challenged death, stared it down and won

I've helped the helpless

I've neglected my family for yours

I find comfort in complete chaos

I eat cold meals if I eat at all

I work with no sleep for days at a time

I miss birthdays,holidays, aniverseries and school functions

I put myself in harms way for a total stranger on a daily basis

ALL BECAUSE WE ARE JUST " AMBULANCE DRIVERS "

I AM AN AMBULANCE DRIVER!!! MY PARTNER DRIVES 90 MPH THROUGH CONGESTED TRAFFIC

FULL OF PEOPLE WHO REFUSE TO YEILD RIGHT OF WAY WHILE I STAND UNRESTRAINED IN

THE BACK OF THIS SCREAMING LAND MISSLE SAVING YOUR LOVED ONES LIFE!! NEVER ONCE

DO I QUESTION HIS DRIVING HE KNOWS THAT AT THE END OF THIS SHIFT HE WILL GO HOME

TO HIS FAMILY SAFELY BECAUSE WE ARE JUST AMBULANCE DRIVERS...

Setzer EMT-B

[Guest guest]

AMR shooting at Rural Metro

Fire EMS shooting at Private EMS

Female paramedics shooting at Male Paramedics

Cats shooting at Dogs

Lawyers shooting at Doctors

This thread has now officially dropped to the level of dribble. A gun has

about as much use in an ambulance as an accordion in a deer blind.

From: texasems-l [mailto:texasems-l ] On

Behalf Of james davis

Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 11:24 PM

To: texasems-l

Cc: emsgirl1978@...

Subject: Re: just ambulance drivers with the occasional bullet

wizzing past our heads

why are you on a scene with bullets whizzing past your heads?

jim davis

From: Setzer <emsgirl1978@...

<mailto:emsgirl1978%40yahoo.com> >

Subject: just ambulance drivers

To: " yahoo ems groups " <texasems-l

<mailto:texasems-l%40yahoogroups.com> >

Date: Tuesday, July 8, 2008, 2:15 PM

Maybe this will help the layperson understand why EMT's and Paramedics get

so mad about being called just " Ambulance Drivers " .

**This just describes a part of what we do, whether it is as a Vol Status or

as a Paid Person.

Standing in chest deep water, freezing rain falling and stinging as it hits

the

exposed parts of my body.

Holding her head above water to keep her from drowning until rescue could

get there to cut her free

--- BUT WE'RE JUST AMBULANCE DRIVERS

Comforting a 89 year old woman who just watched me and my partner cover the

face of her husband of 64 years as he lay dead in their bathroom floor

--- BUT WE'RE JUST AMBULANCE DRIVERS

On scene at an MVA with mom trapped upside down in her car and her dead sons

body laying on top of her without a second thought for my own safety I crawl

into the wreckage to take C-spine control and calm the frantic lady

--- BUT WE'RE JUST AMBULANCE DRIVERS

Called away from my just prepared meal to respond to the middle of B.F.E to

a house with no numbers, no porch light on, nobody waiting to signal us in

and they bitch because we took too long only to find out the patient left

P.O.V ten minutes ago...so we smile and walk away from the verbal lashing

only because we are ---BUT WE'RE JUST AMBULANCE DRIVERS

Standing in the middle of the street after midnight on the wrong side of

town trying to patch the holes and stop the bleeding of a 19 year old

shooting victim with the occasional bullet wizzing past our heads we never

break stride because this kids life is in our hands

--- BUT WE'RE JUST AMBULNCE DRIVERS

Doing chest compressions on a 16 year old girl who decided this life was

more than she could take. Her family screaming at us to help as though we

are the ones who did this to her.

Trying to be understanding as her body flails about as the tube goes in and

IV's being started, my arms and back burning from the pain of CPR, never

once giving up, hoping she would make it through and over come whatever lead

her to this bad decision

---- BUT WE'RE JUST AMBULANCE DRIVERS

Death is all around me and still I go home to live my life

I get kicked, hit, punched, spit on, bled on, puked on...

I look into the eyes of a lifeless child at 7am and by 8 am I'm holding my

child a little tighter and they know nothing about what happened.

I have hundreds of hours of classroom time and years of in the field

experience

I have challenged death, stared it down and won

I've helped the helpless

I've neglected my family for yours

I find comfort in complete chaos

I eat cold meals if I eat at all

I work with no sleep for days at a time

I miss birthdays,holidays, aniverseries and school functions

I put myself in harms way for a total stranger on a daily basis

ALL BECAUSE WE ARE JUST " AMBULANCE DRIVERS "

I AM AN AMBULANCE DRIVER!!! MY PARTNER DRIVES 90 MPH THROUGH CONGESTED

TRAFFIC FULL OF PEOPLE WHO REFUSE TO YEILD RIGHT OF WAY WHILE I STAND

UNRESTRAINED IN THE BACK OF THIS SCREAMING LAND MISSLE SAVING YOUR LOVED

ONES LIFE!! NEVER ONCE DO I QUESTION HIS DRIVING HE KNOWS THAT AT THE END OF

THIS SHIFT HE WILL GO HOME TO HIS FAMILY SAFELY BECAUSE WE ARE JUST

AMBULANCE DRIVERS...

Setzer EMT-B

[Guest guest]

Doc how long are you going to blame my accordian playing on you not

getting a deer? I said I was sorry.

So when you taking me hunting a gain I just got a new harmonica.

8)

Renny Spencer

>

> AMR shooting at Rural Metro

>

> Fire EMS shooting at Private EMS

>

> Female paramedics shooting at Male Paramedics

>

> Cats shooting at Dogs

>

> Lawyers shooting at Doctors

>

>

>

> This thread has now officially dropped to the level of dribble. A

gun has

> about as much use in an ambulance as an accordion in a deer blind.

>

>