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The annual Bambi Slaying commences!
Walking into the foothills of South Dakota's badlands tomorrow morning.... If you don't here back from me in a day or two just assume the deer won!
On EMS news, I ran my first call at "second job" today. 9 shifts, 1 call. LOVE IT!
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Ambien made me post this…
Seriously. It did. I take ambien for sleep(12.5mg XR), as the chances of me sleeping on my own are not so good. But if I am awake past that first 40 minutes it makes me do crazy crap. Like post on my blog. Or clean out the fridge. OR trim, cut and cure 4…
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Healthy Eating
Harvard has a new "healthy plate" out to give guidance on how we should eat. Here it is:
Here is the MedicThree version of a healthy plate:
It's ok. I'm sure Harvard will figure it out eventually.
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Do you Love your job?
Seriously? Do you? This is a question my wife and I have been talking about for a while as she considering going back to school for various things. I know she doesn't care for her job, but has always stayed because it pays well and we needed the money.
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The things we do for Love…
So Tuesday night I took my wife to see Hanson. Yes, the mmm bopping 90's teens you are thinking of....
She likes them. A lot. So I was a nice guy and drove up to the Minnesota Zoo amphitheater and took her.
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Clarity
Well I did it. My doctor agreed with me that my symptoms seem very much like Adult Attention Deficit Disorder. She prescribed be Strattera
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The Waiting Game
Asher had another VCUG and renagram today for his hydronephrosis. Won't have results for a day or two, but it looked like it always did... delayed draining of the left kidney. Hoping they find something diagnostic soon
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The Drive Home
In EMS there are a few tools we use as coping mechanisms. CISM(Critical Incident Stress Management) is the most common, despite many organizations not having active CISM systems. While I find CISM to be useful, it is rarely deployed for run of the mill EMS calls. Death and Dying is our business, and if we had a CISM meeting(which includes everyone from first responders to ED doctors and Medical Directors) for every death in the field, we would spend more time in meetings that in our trucks.
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Uninspired.
For months I have struggled to keep this blog alive. I have posts inside me. I have posts started. I just can't muster them out. This is really the way a big chunk of my life is going. I am incredibly happy with my wife and son, but something is amiss.
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Being an EMS Dad
I've been a paramedic for about 19 months. Not very long, really. My first year was spent working for two teeny tiny services with teeny tiny call volumes. The last seven months with a service that runs right around 10,000 calls a year with 3 trucks covering. Needless to say, I have experienced a lot more in the last 7 months than I did in the year prior to this.
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