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CONGRATS to him. We need more like him.

My former history teacher sent me that. After 24yrs. he still stays in contact with me. He usually sends political jokes.

You know you might be in trouble if you see Geritol in the bathroom. :oops:

Guess he wanted to take a swim and that was the nearest source of water he found. I agree with Kaisu, glad it wasn't on my watch. I might have told him that he got in he'd have to get himself out someway. I've been down in several sewers and that was bad enough. But a port-a-potty...I don't think so.

Uh, I plead the 5th. Actually, one confessed that she wasn't a natural blonde and over time she went back to very dark brown hair. The other was just a guess.

"Seven Bridges Road" - The Eagles

I know in IL there was a bill passed that any kind of assault to EMS personnel or Firefighter is the same penalty as assaulting a Police Officer. Causing the death of the same personnel will call for the death penalty.

To cover an actual drowning, the lungs do not fill up with water. The epiglottis is still functioning cause the water to go into the stomach. Death is due to suffocation. Water in the lungs is secondary, not until a short period of death. Between my father who had been on over 75 drownings/ recoveries in less than two years, and my experience sitting on the Coroners Inquest board. You'd be surprised what you can learn by doing that. With what they explaining with the "dry drowning" is exactly what happens when water does get into the lungs, later causing asphyxiation secondary to laryngospasm and pulmonary edema in severe cases. At one time it was sort of explained to me it's like the gag reflex over reacts causing even more respitory problems.

I think I already posted that I stopped counting at 12 kidney stones and had to have cysto w/ retro-grade about nine times to remove them. One thing I found out is that no matter the size, they tend to hurt the same. Never had any kidney failure, but I went through liver failure about 12 years ago. I was in the hosp. for nine days, given 125mg. Demerol q 4-6 hrs. with 75- 100mg. Visteral, whether I asked for it or not. It did cause me to loose weight that I needed to, but it's not the greatest way to do it. You will not dig it. :puke: Needless to say, afterward I did have with drawl. It was made worse that I had to travel from LA back to IL, about 600 miles. Luckily my parents came down and got me. Took me about two weeks to recover from that alone. :sad1:

Yeah, I've had actual stones without blood also. I think I've had almost every kind of version of stones. They are all painful.

This was e-mailed to me by one of my EMS mentors...We go way back. She use to date my dad in high school and she was one of the founding members of the volunteer service I started with. The human body is a machine that is full of wonder. This collection of human body facts will leave you wondering why in the heck we were designed the way we were. 1.. Scientists say the higher your I.Q. The more you dream. 2.. The largest cell in the human body is the female egg. 3.. The smallest is the male sperm. 4.. You use 200 muscles to take one step. 5.. The average woman is 5 inches shorter than the average man. 6.. Your big toes have two bones each while the rest have three. 7.. A pair of human feet contain 250,000 sweat glands. 8.. A full bladder is roughly the size of a soft ball. 9.. The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve razor blades. 10.. The human brain cell can hold 5 times as much information as the Encyclopedia Britannica. 11.. It takes the food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach. 12.. The average human dream lasts 2-3 seconds. 13.. Men without hair on their chests are more likely to get cirrhosis of the liver than men with hair. 14.. At the moment of conception, you spent about half an hour as a single cell. 15.. There is about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet. 16.. Your body gives off enough heat in 30 minutes to bring half a gallon of water to a boil. 17.. The enamel in your teeth is the hardest substance in your body. 18.. Your teeth start developing (in your gums) 6 months before you are born. 19.. When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate, they do the same when you are looking at someone you hate. 20.. Blondes have more hair than dark-haired people. 21.. Your thumb is the same length as your nose. 22.. At this very moment I know full well you are putting this last fact to the test .. now remove your thumb from your nose and pass this on to the friends you think might be interested in comparing their thumbs to their noses as well. You did it -- I KNOW you did !!!!!

Valium like that is new to me. Guess I could see it in-house and monitored, but not really in the field. And for some people Benadryl can make it worse. I know Benadryl wires me out and puts me on the ceiling. My understanding for vertigo is treating the underlying cause, ie. inner ear problems or sinus infection.

I was diagnosed with renal cholic a few times. Imitates kidney stones, just no blood in the UA. Unfortunately, since I can't have Torodal, I'm just told to tough through it.

Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies. - Words to live by.

I knew two Nurse Nancy's. One very smart. The other I think was a natural blonde. No offense to natural blondes.

"Tube Snake Boogie" - ZZTop

A lot of people also remember their first of a type of call. I remember my first shooting. A guy was beating the crap out of his wife and she got to a .22 rifle and popped him upper right quad of the abd. Small caliber but a lot of damage. No exit wound, but you could see a bulge in his back where the bullet lodged just before breaking the skin. No charges filed against her. Self defense. Also, the sheriff at the time just sort of turned a blind eye. He had a thing for guys who beat their wives. I guess you could say he wouldn't p!ss on them if they were on fire.

CONGRATS

We brought in one of our regulars drunk as a bear. Got him over to the ER bed and I started walking down the hall to start my paper work. The nurse flew past me saying the guy coded. My partner went back into the room and just lifted his chin up and he started breathing again. It's amazing what can be accomplished if you just keep your head and observe things.

"Alice's Restaurant" - Arlo Gutherie

Older women make beautiful lovers. But I can't complain about the young one's either.

You look at mom and you look at dad, then you think to yourself, "This kid is going to be born with gills."

What's worse than 10 dead men in a trash can? One dead man in 10 trash cans.

"Truckin'" - Greatful Dead

The mother of my god-daughter, while being "stitched back up", was asked if she wanted to have it done "regular" or "extra-virgin". It was a military doctor. "Hold it! Wait!! Never mind, thought it was a breach for a minute there."