Happiness

What was the bleeding like, because kind of sounds like a bit of the placenta may not have been delivered.

No Underwear - Makes Sense to Me A man came to visit his grandparents, and he noticed his grandfather sitting on the porch in the rocking chair wearing only a shirt, with nothing on from the waist down. 'Grandpa, what are you doing? Your weenie is out in the wind for everyone to see!' he exclaimed. The old man looked off in the distance without answering. 'Grandpa, what are you doing sitting out here with nothing on below the waist?' he asked again. The old man slowly looked at him and said, 'Well....last week I sat out here with no shirt on and I got a stiff neck. This is your grandma's idea.'

I live in a first nations community and your telling me I havent experienced discrimmination. Crotch your such a dick When we advertise for employment at my work it is stated in the notice "People of Haida Ancestry perfered." Good thing when I applied they hired me because I could do the job and had all the right qualifications.

That is called student racisum, you were a student once and Im pretty sure you had an opinion, and by the way you act here Im pretty sure you voiced it or you would say to the effect "I cant have an opinion because Im black"

I always luv crotches out look on racisum. In BC we have a basketball tourny in Prince Ruper called the ALL NATIVE BASKETBALL TOURNIMENT.AKA holy week. This is for Indians only and you have to prove your an indian before you can play. Now us white folk AKA non-indian DONT GIVE A CRAP and we go watch the games and have a great time. Crotchity one thing I have notice is that it is YOU that dosn't like being black, it not us that don't like you for being black. So suck it up buttercup, deal with it and while your at it go and get some help because for anyone that goes out of there way to bring racisum in every god dam thread (sorry ruff) really needs some intensive therapy. Good luck and

Tourinquet is your last option and if you have to do it you make sure it is as close to the end of the stump as possible. When doing this you have to keep in mind that by using a tourinquet the chance of reatachment decreases substantualy.

We tend to use the handles on top more for guiding the chair. The flippy handles on the bottom are taped on ours as it gets in the way and I have almost lost a finger. Im thinking back and we use the frame more that the handles for the lifting but it isn't because things have broken but because it is more compfortable to lift by the frame.

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Being from such a small town I do feel that I should stop, one of my problems is that I am 9/10 time on call, and the last time I called dispatch (she was a bag is all I can say) she made me feel like I was out trolling for pts (and it took me 10 mins to convince him he needed an ambulance. Anyways I witness a fall 54 yr old male who is disabled, he was avoiding a car and kind of fell back, gentle is the only word I can think of. I didnt want to stop as I was on my way to the store for dog food but it was in the end a good thing. He is always in pain so it was hard to gage, but when he said I have pain on pain I clued in, ended up being a fractured femur (still cant see it) so bad that if he had stood up it would have gone into his pelvis and then a whole new can worms. When I travel I carry gloves and a bag and I will stop, because when I think about it all, if I was in an accident I would want someone qualified to stop for me even if they just held my hand and talked to me while the ambulance showed up.

So I am 46 years old and in my life time there has been approx 60k paid for me and my children up to the age of 18. With the exception of approx 10 years of one child I didnt pay as he is a status Indian. So I will list what I can remember in hospital care and maybe some one can tell me approx what that would have cost me in the states. 18 months (3rd degree) burned abds on stove (dont ask) emergency and 3 day hospital stay 20 months drank lemon oil asperated it, 6 months in hospital and 3 months in rehab 8 yrs ears pinned back 5 day hospital stay 14yrs broken ankle x-rays etc, 16 tonsils out 4 days in hospital also treated for pneumonia 19 emergency c-section 6 day hospital stay and child in intensive care for 3 (Spinal that didnt work) 23 natural birth (spinal worked) 10 day hospital stay child with severe jaundice 28 natural birth 2 day hospital stay 34 pheumonia 5 day hospital stay full prenatal care for all three tubes tied up On average 3 trips to dr per year 1st child at 17 surgery for a torn tendon in the knee and probably on average 3 trips to the dr per year 2nd child care for a hole in his heart and on average 3 trips to the dr per year 3rd child tonsiles out, adnoids out, circumcision (medicaly needed) hernia and toung snipping pneumonia 4 day hospital stay and on average 3 trips to the dr per year. I know that as a child I ate many things and stuck many things up my nose off to the dr, some how my children were not as goofy as i was but I would not have paid any more if they were. ER Doc I understand where your comming from but if you as a dr feel you need to shove 30 pts in your day to make money then it will be your pts that suffer as you cant give them the same care as you to 20. One thing the states really need to look at is how easy it for people to sue drs for the stupidest crap and once that is done maybe your own insurance will go down and that would make a difference on the bottom line right? (nice picture:) Yes we have alot of problems in Canada with our healthcare but I have to admit that if you need something that is life and death then you get it (Im sure some have died) if you want to have elective surgery then yep you have to wait and people go to the states because people dont like to wait for anything these days. AK or is it Mike, if pharmaceutical companies can only charge so much in Canada (because of our legislation) why cant the gov of the USA do the same and bring the prices down in your country. I know that yes it cost alot to create and get drugs approved but come on there has to be some sort of line. A friend of mine said to me once when she was selling one of her horses, "A horse is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it" Our societies have really gone wayward when it comes to econmics for example the IPAD it cost under 50 to make but we are willing to pay 500 for one now thats a big profit line......just saying

I have been thinking alot in the last week about 9/11 just the same others. I have had a bit of trouble trying to feel anything good about the celebrations that have happened in NYC. I think that when we celebrate (that might not be the right word) disasters it makes things worse for those that are left behind. Im not saying we shouldn't recognize these events but watch 2 weeks of commercials and listening to the news has been nothing less than depressing. A friend has posted this http://ambulancedriverfiles.com/2011/09/11/september-11-2011/ to their face book and when I read it, it really said alot about how I was feeling. Today I got up and thought of those that have died, gave a wished to the families hoping their day may bring more closure and not more grief, I mowed and raked my yard, washed my back deck down and did a call, I still have to BBQ beef tenderloin for my family. I will have a nice cold beer and a nice hot bath and then go to bed and tommorrow I will go about my bussiness, as life goes on. I hope that everyone everywhere today moved forward in the wake of this tragity.

Ear Infections, I have encountered 2 pts that have presented as a stroke or MI and in the end of both they had ear infections. One was even medvaced for a CAT scan. Before she left our hospital I asked if anyone had looked in her ears, she said no and even the nurse in the room said no. After the CAT scan the dr said he couldn't find the problem so she said "No one has looked in my ears" He did and surprise massive ear infection....................... One paper I had to do was the question "why does GHB present as a Narcotic?" It was pretty interesting talking to the doc's they all had their own idea's, listened to them all and got a A.

good luck

I also use vicks, I once told and RCMP officer to do this and he said while in cop school he was told not to. The reason was that you will start to associate the vicks with death etc. and if you have small children and they are sick wearing vicks it will bring up those associations.

Years ago that happened here, there was a 80 yr old that ate some brownies that were in her daughters freezer........

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Thanks AK for answering my question in such depth. So I guess I worded my question wrong I shouldn't have put bad in the sentence, it should have read "did something happen to you". You do have a religious back ground and by the sounds of it a very intellectual one at that. And thank you for not becomming a evangalist as I dont think I could see you flinging a light saber around up on stage . I personally luv Penn and Teller, they just make me laugh. I saw Penn not long ago on a night show promoting his new book about athiesm. That shows discussion reminds me of the one with Ruff and AK. At one point Penn said "If its ok for you to belive, then its ok for me to not" Faith is personal thing, and I think everyone has it, but my faith is not always yours and thats what people have to understand.

now wouldn't this be great. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44344116/ns/health-cancer/

Good topic for sure, it makes you think. I am allowed to use my skills as PCP even if I am doing a First aider position like at the county fair I wouldn't go down to the level of Red Cross (which I have for work). And here we do this with our Ambulance so in therory Im not going to come across this as I have a ventolin protocol and can use it. Now if I'm off on Vacation and this happened Im pretty sure that the pt will be getting someone elses puffer (as long as it is the same) as these people can go down fast and furrious. If I did nothing and they died then not only would I feel bad but Im pretty sure I could be sued to some extent Really in the states the only thing you can give is O2 and epi without Dr's orders. How can that be if you have the training for things like Ventolin etc. It amazes me that in the states if you help someone and it goes wrong you can be sued but if you stand there and watch someone die you cant.