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Happy Thanksgiving. Tell your loved ones how much you love them. You dont know how long you have.
Nov 22, 2018 11:21 AM
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Happy Thanksgiving. Tell your loved ones how much you love them. You dont know how long you have.
katanatripsis
Oh god. Gonna go tell Dad I love him, BRB.
TexanSailor
I’m glad that’s how you see yourself, because either EMT, police officer, or firefighter you all are captain fucking America. Thank you.
TheOneTrueZongo
@op I work for United Healthcare customer support. I’ve got a call like that.. they do suck.. sending positive vibes op
WhiteKnight124
I swear every Thanksgiving or Christmas I worked I did at least one code, those ones always sucked a little more than usual
xnoizi
CraigKrieger
Fuck Cancer.
Jarilye
Jesus, retail is way rougher than I remember...
smilinggal
I was that daughter last year. Thk you for the work you do. Just know if you could've done something, you were there and ready to help
BrassBallsBenLondon
Sorry man, I feel you, hope your day gets better. My shift starts up at 1830.
GetlnLoserWereGonnaOffendEveryone
Make sure you get some turkey today
Longbowgun
..and gravy, @op
countybrownie
I got both:D
DewyVan
Thankful for people like you giving up your holiday to help others.
Darketower
My brother-in-law and niece are firefighter/paramedics, and both are on shift today. Know that we’re extra-thankful for all of you today.
MedicPlease
Had a mom Christmas morning, unfortunately it happens.
EveryBodyLovesMe
Lmao I know what you MEANT. But all I can think is yeah, I unfortunately have siblings too.
yelwar
First responder life. Thank you!
HerMajestysSecretButthole
I did biohazard remediation for a while. I dislike holidays solely for the reason for the amount of suicides that I’ve cleaned during them.
w0lfattack
My first call was a homeless man trying to kill himself by trying to jump in front of a semi and then I had to fight a dude on meth.
EveryBodyLovesMe
It’s never dull!
KevinWithABeard
TheMadRabbit
I have exactly 2 loved ones left. I tell them every day I love them
Slimeustas
This is so sad alexa could you play complete silence for 10 hours
Morataya
Thank you for doing what you do, and being able to.
railgap
I got a Christmas I'll never forget. I did Civil Air Patrol briefly while I was in the USAF (it's cool, because if you're an NCO in the /
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Air Force, you got to be an officer in CAP). Anyway, CAP does mostly body recovery although they always tell the relatives it's a "rescue/
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operation". Two days before Christmas, family of three goes down in a Piper Cherokee in the mountains on the way to Aspen airport. It's IFR/
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Plane was not cleared to Aspen, and pilot was new and not instrument rated. we get to crash site, fuselage is intact! And we can hear /
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what sounds like a creepy little girl's voice singing. Leader finds two parents dead in front seats, little girl singing Christmas carols/
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in back seat. About the time I slog up to where they are, she says, "Merry Christmas!" and I threw up. I dropped out of CAP right after.
IBroughtASpareDrainpipe
Are you a beautician or hair stylist?
Thatguywhodidthething
Thank you for being there to take that call.
cheeseguy3412
I still have my immediate family, and I think about this all the time. I make sure my parting words to all family is "Love you."
redcougar78
Hang in there brother, I just finished a shift and have to go back in tonight too.
SinglePorVida
I’ll be rollin in with you! Standby for drunken family fist fights and oven fires.
Weneedbees
Thank you for the work you do. Take care of your heart. Honor the risk of secondary trauma and address it.
SinglePorVida
I think we work together!!
EveryBodyLovesMe
HIPAAHIPAAHIPAA lol jk
Razielight
Cancer sucks, I think that if humanity spent more time on it than making weapons a cure would'v been made by now.
ManCalledHorseWithNoName
this makes sense....then makes me angry we cant figure out how to fix it.
dancfontaine
I'm sure we can but it's not as profitable radiation therapy and prolonged hospitalization
SirDistic
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. You're correct. It's about money to drug companies.
nursejr210
As a fellow healthcare minion at work today, I feel your pain, brother/sister/helicopter.
namtrohs
Know the work you do, however difficult, gives a measure of solace to we who have lost.
cloudsforbrains
Very well said.
masterchief11
Beautifully stated
namtrohs
Rough shit how death changes you. <3
dav3nasty
namtrohs for president!
namtrohs
I wouldn't want that job... which means I'd probably be good at it. *sigh*
MrFNSunshine
Is it true that Thanksgiving is the busiest day of the year in the ER?
Trumpelstiltskin
Halloween is my least favorite to work
whithea
The GI lab usually is pretty busy removing food bolus’s from peoples esophagus, because they don’t take the time to chew their fucking food
lhappybirthdayl
Depends. New Year’s Eve tends to get pretty wild too.
fhatpotatou
I'd imagine Black Friday too
goosebusters
Black Friday isn't that bad anymore. Thanks to online shopping and early black Friday deals
gunstarzz
Usually get more suicide calls around this time. Also fires
HMRyuuza
I'd figure 4th of July was til Turkey friers became more common.
GhostBear3067
I call 7/4 "Grass Fire and Finger Blasting Day"
Estrangd
That's not the definition of finger blast I'm familiar with.
TwoForOneSucc
I’ve seen most deaths on Holidays so it’s up there.
MVPHingleMcCringleBerry
I would say Monday morning is when a lot of the people start to come in. Also the Monday after Christmas is usually one of the busiest.
apolloin
Any holiday is a focus for feelings of isolation and depression, sadly.
ajizzle
damn, them feels
Benegesseritwitch75
Not necessarily in the ER but a lot of accidents family domestics, cooking injuries etc Its the night before and Thanksgiving night gets bad
goosebusters
I work in the lab, at 7pm till the next Monday, we are bombarded with cardiac test, which is almost always heartburn
cloudsforbrains
Oh, gosh, that’s terrible!
goosebusters
My coworker had a patient with a glucose of 1400 today, which normal 70-130.
tonysdg
https://i.redd.it/ualgwat299511.jpg
Theprincessbride
Do different countrys use different scales to meassure bloodsugar? Cause last time mine was checked it was 6, witch is normal.. (Norway)
goosebusters
mg/dl.
TerryClothCrews
That sounds more like an A1C test rather than blood sugar. It's a different way of measuring glucose.
arcadia2000
That's insane. How were they even alive. Before my dad got on meds he was running around with a glucose of 600 and he's a hoss. 0.o
WednesdayAntilles
Sounds like my in-laws. Glucose regularly 300+ and they “feel sick” when it’s normal. I have no idea how they’re alive/not lost a limb
goosebusters
I see 1000 about once a month. 800 weekly. 600 daily. 1800 is the record. Patient died tho
Izman15
<= paramedic. First call of 11/22 1:30am drunk & high 21 year old. At ER later this morning nurse tells me he drank his urinal.
machinelogic
Been close.
NalaLaLa
ThePowerOf42
MehtefaS
Someone decided to explore his inner Bear Grylls
Izman15
Different life lessons, I guess.
illinus
Drank his urinal?
ThePowerOf42
TheGroupWBench
Perfect
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JustStopTalking
Probably a small white jug used to piss in..
iliketotellabsurdconspiracies
My favorite from a similar situation during transport, “well, you guys were awake anyway...” me: “no. We weren’t.”
countybrownie
People give us the greatest stories. I had a guy high meth break into his grandparents house to steal their couch to sleep on it outside.
iliketotellabsurdconspiracies
Did they find him and say, “oh dear, it’s just Adam meth’n around....” I’ll see myself out.
H3xfly
Makes sense.
TheUsernameIsSoLongThatYouCantActuallySeetheSpanishinquisition
well you wouldn't want to sleep in their house without permission
marcosis9000
How do you even decompress of heavy vibes at the end of your day?! Power to you buds
brotatotot
Exercise, alchol, sex. Rinse and repeat.
WorkerLurker
You should probably rinse after exercise too, so you’re nice and warm and all the salt is gone.
brotatotot
Good point
ToNkaTUCKS
Working in Er. Guy has full BM takes his pants off and procedes to throw them at the glass door. They stuck and in cartoon fashion slid down
ToNkaTUCKS
Never laughed so hard in such a situation
UpvotesAroundTheHorn
Full BM - is that Bowel Movement? ?
ToNkaTUCKS
Yeaaaa. The full shits
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TheGroupWBench
EMT here, let me guess; he only had two beers?
Ijustwantquiet
What a light weight.
TheGroupWBench
Oh, trust me it's always "two beers". Just ask em, they'll tell you. Need to figure out where they're buying it, obviously good stuff.
Ijustwantquiet
What size were the beers?
TheGroupWBench
No idea but I can promise they drank ALL of both of them.