Ever feel like your over doing it?

I've been out of the forums here for a little while, which I regret. I love the community and support here so kudos to all of you. I recently have fallen in love with EMS and in the past couple days I think I over did it just a little. I go to nursing school full time with taking programming on the side, work about 25 hours a week and do anywhere between 40 and 80 hours a week in EMS. Little back story to update you all I graduated high school this past spring (yay class of 08) and I started volunteering at my local ambulance squad just to see what it was like and boy I almost regret it because im so addicted but I love it so much. I got my EMT cert over this past summer and its partly what got me to go to nursing school because I never had considered anything in health care before. So long story short yes we have bad calls here and there but NOTHING like the past 36 hours.

Oct 31st 12:50pm dispatched for a MVC with rollover (3 out of 4 didn't make it)

After pulling some duty I decided to go home at midnight like I normally do then as soon as I get home I hear tones for a MVC and I consider going then it said reported with 3 ejections so I start booking it to my car. I'm the newest EMT yet they gave me the worst patient to treat, badly injured and extremely combative, we flew him out and no word yet from the hospital on his condistion and we lifted two others but they were alert and oriented.

Cleaning up the ambulances after the call we hear a report for a house fire at 1:11am reported fully involved, and oh yes it was burnt down to the ground and it was a nice house too. Thankfully no one was living in it and no one was hurt or killed, but we had to be there till 6am then we were released.

Next I go straight to work and work for a good 8 hours then am leaving and as I pass the hall tones go out for a nursing home medical emergency so im like crap and go on the call and on our way back from the hospital we got called there again for the same thing Lol, and here I am now just getting home at 12:01 November 2nd.

I realize this kinda turned into a vent, but I was probably gonna explode if I didn't let all this out im so tired right now, im tuning off my pager for the next few days.

Support your local EMS volunteers! We are a dying breed and here are some links to pictures and articles.

Article for the first MVC

Picture of the second MVC

Picture of the second MVC

House Fire

 

I'm kinda tired just thinking about what you said. LOL

 

According to Gloucester, that qualifies you as F****** Awesome.

EDIT:
He got offered a job interview two hours after he handed in a application to Gloucester :applaud:

 

You are also heroes, in every sense of the word.

 

Wow some night. I volunteered for about five years when I was still living in South Africa mainly on Friday and Saturday nights so it was mainly stabbings and kids wrapping their cars around poles. There is no real words to describe how one feels at the end of a long shift. Keep up the good work.

 

Hey Pleeb. Congrats on finishing high school and the E.M.S. course. Yep, it's a pretty stressful area, as you no doubt know by now.

Did a stint at nursing back in mid-eighties, (Psychiatric, lol!), which has its own high stress level, and had nothing to do with being a Chemist, (my usual profession). It's pretty rewarding, but it was also nice when it was all over in some ways, I'll admit.

Good luck with your future endeavours, Pleeb.

 

Good luck, my mother's been a nurse for 40 years now or so and she's a very caring person, which seems to be an overarching theme for all those in the profession.

 

remember to take some time to enjoy other things besides work. get some partying in dude. youre still young, dont get old too fast.