DITL - The last day of being a full time paramedic

Time to get up. giving me 35 minutes to get showered and get off to work - where I have to be at 5:45 AM. Last time I'll use this preset alarm.

Good Morning Amos!

Showered, dressed, and ready to go for the last day.

Getting breakfast - a smoothie with peach, strawberries, banana, raw almonds, and homemade yogurt togther. And my lunch and snacks - crock pot ribuletta (veggie soup with beans).

Feed all the babies - the fish, the kitty, and the puppy.

The drive to work... There should NOT be this much traffic at 5:30 in the morning on a Friday. Going 80mph down I-25, as usual, to enable me to get to work in 30 minutes.

Arrive at work, and do the morning ambulance check - where I go though every piece of equipment on the ambulance to determine a. what supplies we need, b. that everything important to run a call is there, and c. that everything is in working order.

And now it's back to bed... for a couple hours.

After a short nap, we are called over to base to pick up our supplies and to cover Northglenn while the supervisor showers (she was on a 48 hour shift). As usual, we were delayed by a train... There are so many trains in Commerce City it's nearly impossible to go somewhere without encountering a train delay. And it's a beautiful fall morning. Couldn't resist a pic of one of the changing trees.

When we return to our station, we eat lunch and play around on the fire truck - of course being fantastic roll models for our EMT student rider...

Tones drop to an MVA! A truck was crushed between a semi and a commercial dump truck going at highway speed! Extrication with the jaws of life was required (enabling me to take a few pictures until we could get to our patient). Miraculously, he was ok.

After the call, back to the station, where I clean out my lockers... (one for bedding and uniforms, and one in the bathroom).

And then have a little down time and watch and Episode of Angel on my computer.

Then we head over to station 26 to have dinner with the guys. We of course encounter another train on the way. Nachos, and Dibs for desert.

And for old times sake, I have another asthma attack, and get a duoneb - with Albuterol and Atrovent. It's actually my first problem with Asthma in quite some time.

And back to bed... Where we amazingly sleep all night.

Bye bye EMS!!!