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What a stupid game. Stop right there. Enough said. Try to explain why you attempted a surgical airway on someone while off duty and with alcohol in your system. I agree with you that you stand a greater risk from that more than you would from not attempting one. What can you do? Should the choking happen call 911. We can't be on all the time. We certainly can't be on with alcohol in our system.

I'm pretty sure I went through the city link. That's the way I got to the book on amazon so I'm pretty sure that the City got some of that 3.99

agreed. You would stand a greater risk of liability if you did act in an off duty out of town and ETOH in your system. Possibly face manslaughter charges if the choking victim died whether it was your fault or not. You need to find smarter friends to hang with.

I left all the chastising to the others here. I had a list of things to say but I knew that others would say them but you need a better class of friends. I'm not going to assume that this "friend" was YOU but if it was, I'm very disappointed and frankly I'm really PISSED OFF at you if it was. Now this friend of yours deserved to get caught, he deserves to lose his license and he deserves to NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER work in EMS again. How many drunk driving accidents do you respond to a year and how many dead and injured people do you see in a year that are directly affected by drunk driving? You can't count that high my friend. To continue to associate with someone who is so irresponsible as to put so many lives at risk is someone that you need to run far away from. NOW if I find out that this person who got caught is you, I'm afraid that our association is at an end. I have had personal friends affected and killed by drunk driving and I choose not to associate with people who are so fucking irresponsible as to not call a damn cab or a friend to drive them home. I've been called many times in the middle of the night by friends who were too drunk to drive because those friends knew that I would drop almost everything (except sex and I don't have sex that often) to come get them from whatever party they were at and drive them home. To not call for a ride is just plain irresponsible and fucking stupid. Whoever your friend is is a freaking idiot and moron and SHOULD NOT be a paramedic or in EMS EVER. They should know better. There are some mistakes that I can forgive someone making but this is not one of them.

You, I mean, "your friend" should consult a good attorney. You, I mean "your friend" should not post about it on on-line message boards. It's impossible to say if you, I mean "your friend", will lose your, I mean "his" license. There are legal issues that will need to play out. I would expect, however, that insuring you, I mean "your friend", to drive would be pretty much impossible for the next several years. (Again, this will depend on local legal issues about which none of us can really comment.) So while you, I mean "your friend", might not lose your, I mean "his" license, you, I mean "he", may lose your, I mean "his" job.

Wow, what a rambling post. Sorry all. I think I went bug nutty after spend most of last night doing chi squared calculations for a homework assignment and took my craziness out on the city.

I absolutely think that sex is a good barometer for a happy marriage. And that comes from someone that's been happily married for 25 years this year. What happens during good sex? (Other than orgasm of course) Trust, intimacy, vulnerability, curiosity, kindess, communication, bravery, openess...all of the things that make a great relationship great, right? Only compressed...When one of them is broken, the relationship is broken, and that can often be quickly seen through the lack of a happy sex life. If you're spending more time working on your relationship than you're spending getting naked, then you need to stop and see which of those things are broken, figure out how to fix it, and then get back to the business of 'getting busy' again... Money? When you're getting laid on a regular basis, who cares about money? But truly, when the rest of your life is firing on all cylinders, as shown by a healthy sex life, then talking, and planning to solve the money issues really aren't that big of a deal... When you hear "Sex isn't that big of a deal, you need a relationship built on more than a roll in the hay..." that's partially true, but when you hear sex described as "just a roll in the hay" then I guarantee you that they're doing it wrong..it's truly much, much more than that.. If your sex life is boring, then you need to figure out why you're uninterested in spicing it up for your wife? Heh, yeah..you're pissed because she won't spice it up for you, right? This is a 'you get what you give game', it doesn't work the other way around. If your wife feels loved, sexy, appreciated, desired, then she's gonna wanna rock your world...if she doesn't want to rock your world, figure out why she doesn't feel sexy and fix it... See, all of this is easy!! Ok, not so much..but it is doable. And the good news? The steps that you need to take to fix your sex life are exactly the same steps that you should be taking every day anyway, just to have a happy life. They're just more easily seen when viewed through sex...but isn't everything?