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Sandra a volunteer with #CommandosdeSalvamento attending an emergency call. /
Sandra una voluntaria de los Comandos de Salvamento atendiendo una llamada de emergencia .
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[female-ff-emt]

Recently my life has been all about EMS. Don’t get me wrong, it’s fun, it’s pays my bills, and my new partner is awesome. But it’s killing me in the way of exhaustion. I went a whole month where I didn’t sleep through one night at work, and on that truck, that’s rare. I’ve been assulated by a patient in which my temporary partner thought he had some unspoken duty to deal with it when I already had. It’s been a challenging month. I can only hope this month will be better. But I have a bad track record of being up for 24 hours straight on this truck. To add to this, our admin says we cannot nap before 5 pm... in my opinion that’s the stupidest rule in the world.

[through-broken-eyes]

Sick trauma today..

13 y/o male got kicked in the head by a horse. Brain matter exposed through the right frontal bone. I had to call for a helicopter for the third time in the last week. This is why my station calls me the trauma queen. ✌️🚑🚨🚒🏥

[female-ff-emt]

We have all had those really incredibly crappy calls in emergency services. This past year, I’ve had quite a few. And it takes a village to make it through these calls. But what happens after the call? In my experience, everyone goes off and does their own things. Cope with it how you cope with it kind of deal. But I personally feel like I am alone. I would appreciate that extra help. And it’s so hard to reach out for it.

We all suffered a loss this year. My emergency services system lost a great man. I lost a peds patient, and sadly I have only had two successful cardiac arrests saves in my career. Knowing how many arrests I’ve been too, that number seems so low to me.

The point of this post is to encourage any first responder out there, if you need someone while you are struggling with the stresses of the job or just a specific call that still haunts you, reach out. Reach out to friends, family, loved ones, your crew, a counselor, me, just reach out to someone. No one should have to go through this alone. It’s time to start saving those who save us.

[female-ff-emt]

This post is to pay tribute to a great man who recently passed away. He was the assistant chief of my old department. He had a wife and 4 month old baby boy. He was a respected firefighter and good friend. He was the best teacher you could learn from. He risked his life daily to help people in need. He was found in cardiac arrest and passed away following a successful trench rescue. He died in the line of duty. He was 32. And his name is Stan.

Assistant Jeff "Stan" Holden was all of those things and more. He took a chance on me, made sure he did everything he could and taught me as much as possible. I won't be able to thank him, or repay him for all that he did. He believed in me when no one else at my old career department did. The world has lost a damn good firefighter and even better person.

The support from the community has been amazing. We have all come together, even though it's such a tragic situation. At his funeral, I saw so many different patches, ranging from small towns like Farmville to the biggest cities like FDNY. Everyone knew him and every one loved him.

That picture was taken on one of the overpasses that he passed under on his way back home from the ME's office. It was amazing seeing how many people came out of make sure he got there, so many people that one overpass was actually overloaded with 4 fire trucks and 5 ambulances.

To end this post there is only one thing to say. Rest easy Stan, we'll take it from here. AC Jeffery Holden, 204, 8/13/18.

[female-ff-emt]

My volunteer department needed to test hose yesterday. The company they hired and neglected to tell me about… Entirely manned by my old career department. I spent over nine hours looking at the two people that have black balled me from two of the three career departments on my county. They are brothers, one being the chief and the other being the deputy chief. They refused to look me in the eyes. But I held strong. I acted normal, smiling and waving at all my old friends, most of them happy to see that I has recovered from my harsh experience in leaving the department. My volunteer department chief apologized for not telling me who would be doing the testing because when I arrived at the test site, I was thoroughly shocked to see them. However, at the end of the day he said he was proud that I didn’t let them bother me. Why would I? I mean, they already took my job why would I let them take anything else?

[female-ff-emt]

This is just a place to express my thoughts and feelings about my new exciting career as a firefighter/EMT in the state of North Carolina. I hope this blog is something people can come to and see the hardships but also the amazing parts of being in a fire department and the many different obstacles and advantages to being a female in a male dominated field. I hope everyone enjoys.

[female-ff-emt]

I was a career firefighter for three months. It was a great three months. Nothing says I love my job more than willing putting myself through Hell and back, coming home exhausted, beaten and bruised, but going back anyways. It was because I loved the rush and I loved the idea that the simple exercises and the people I did them with were the skills and people that would one day help me save lives. But then I was fired, because I was “unable to physically do the job”. I thought this strange as I did all the exercises they expected me to. Now I wonder, since this was their first time ever having a female in their ranks, was this maybe a factor in it? I had to do things differently and I can’t help but think that had maybe a small part in me losing an amazing job. I just wonder how the other female is that was still there when I left. I hope she has better luck than me and I hope that since she has more of their personality, she won’t be singled out for being the only female left in a department of men.

[female-ff-emt]

Wow. What a whirlwind I've been on in the past few weeks. I am now an independently functioning EMT in my system and I have finally earned my yellow stickers on my helmet, which my chief said I should've had weeks ago. It means I finally proved myself competent in firefighting. Now, people will doubt my abilities less, at least hopefully. I got checked off on driving trucks at my volunteer department. So my life has been getting better, like I knew it would. Only one minor thing, I haven't worked for two weeks straight. When I was at work last, my bosses offered a full time position to my partner for the day. Now, it doesn't sound like a big deal but I was promised that I would be the first to go full time by the deputy director of our organization. So when they go back on that promise, it can be a little... annoying. I love the girl that the full time position. She is so sweet and so good at what she does. But it's still irking. Things are still better at my new organization and I have been doing some great fire training lately. Things are looking better and it's about time.

[through-broken-eyes]

Embarrassing moments in ems

You're not really an emt until you blow your pants out inside a patients house..

[through-broken-eyes]

So so so in love with my new star of life tattoo! Pardon the blood in the blue this was taken right after he was finished tattooing me.

[through-broken-eyes]

Why working in ems destroys your life..

I feel like my life is slowly falling apart because my job consumes my life and even though I enjoy it my friends and family get annoyed and blame me for working a "ridiculous unpredictable job" well, that's ems for you. Sorry if my life choices displease you. But I'm not fucking changing what I love to do for people who aren't there for me when I need them anyway.