Ascl3pius
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Post by Ascl3pius on Aug 13, 2007 18:46:02 GMT -8
Hey guys. Sadly my subscription ended at the start of August. I plan on returning at the end of the month. That may be further delayed though as things in rl are changing a bit for me. (No need to worry. The changes are good.) I'm on a waiting list for a promotion at my job and if approved I will be enrolled in a paramedic training upgrade program come october so I might have to trade my time jacked in for study time for a bit under a year. Either way I will frequent the boards and keep in touch with the goings on of the alliance and mxo. My email should be listed somewhere here so if you guys cant reach me in game or on the forum feel free to drop me a line anytime. Just so were on the same page this is not a "Goodbye Pride" message I just wanna let you all know what the word with Cl3p is. (Also this is a great time for me to beg for a patcher tree, kinda fitting don't ya think )
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Post by Pylat on Aug 14, 2007 3:32:19 GMT -8
Gratz on the promotion (*crosses fingers*). I'll help you with the patcher tree when you get back in game, so hurry up
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Post by avery1 on Aug 14, 2007 10:45:26 GMT -8
congrats on the potential to become an EMT trained & all.
Do be excellent in RL as you're so good in game.
Pop on & tell us something on the forums & I'll forgive you not cl3p'ing in game.
Ability trees come & go -- good players are what counts.
ave
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Post by Catzi on Aug 20, 2007 22:24:14 GMT -8
thanks asclepius, good to hear from you! can never have enough good paramedics. you'll never be out of work. See you soon.
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Post by Ascl3pius on Aug 23, 2007 1:01:35 GMT -8
HOORAY!!!!!!! ;D ;D ;D I'm in there baby! Just got the papers today. I start my classes on October 16th. /bigcheer
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Post by Pylat on Aug 25, 2007 1:31:32 GMT -8
Gratz! ;D
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Post by avery1 on Aug 27, 2007 17:11:46 GMT -8
congrats -- have fun & keep in touch.
Maybe throw us some "days in the life" of an EMP stories... I'm sure there's some weird stuff that EMT get to see.
ave
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Post by Ascl3pius on Sept 24, 2007 3:08:31 GMT -8
Weird isnt a strong enough adjective the describe some of the days in the life of an emt or paramedic Ave, trust me on that one. I only have a week left in the streets, then a bit of vacation time and im off to academy but if I get something juicy before then I will be sure to post up a recap. If not I will tell a few tales of some of my more "interesting" calls. Interesting doesnt do it either........hmmmm........anybody got a thesaurus laying around?
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Post by Ascl3pius on Sept 24, 2007 3:57:02 GMT -8
adjective *to* describe
i could have edited that but hey i need to get my post count up however I can.
Clep out
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Post by avery1 on Sept 24, 2007 16:55:04 GMT -8
cool,
Every see Bringing out the Night (I think that was the title of the EMT movie with Nicolas Cage with physodelic scenes -- wow? imagion people on drugs watching that flick saying "whoa this acid trip is da bomb").
It was a cool flick. I recall the backlash of real EMTs saying it misprotrayed the world of NYC EMTs... dam entertaining if you ask me.
Anyhow, learn, do, be -- write us as you can.
ave
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Ascl3pius
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Post by Ascl3pius on Oct 24, 2007 23:01:40 GMT -8
Nope, never saw that one. Nick Cage is up there on my "good actors" list so i will check that one out though. I would hope that that kind of drug use, on the job at that, isn't happening now a days and I never saw anything like that, but I have heard some back in the days type stories from the vets on my job so honestly anything is possible. Things that aren't true to some degree never piss people off if you get my drift....... I'm not a great story teller, and for now i traded in my seat in an ambulance for a class seat so the streets are becoming a distant memory, but i will take a stab at it if you want. Just to set the stage a bit I work/ed in the south Bronx which isn't the "nicest" place in the world due to social-economic strains, drugs, violence, etc so most of my patients are pretty under served and need all the help they can get. Average call~ Not everything is life saving work. Most emt's/medics that work in large cities will tell ya that a big percent of our jobs range from "great, its you again with the mysterious tummy ache for 4 years that still hasn't gone away. why not just live in the hospital?" to "I CAN"T BELIEVE YOU CALLED ME FOR THIS BULLS#IT !!!" Lots of times people figure that since their HMO will cover it that they are better off calling 911 instead of spending money on a cab or burning gas. Plus some people have a very liberal definition of what a medical emergency is so we just smile and take em off to the hospital. Sad thing is on calls like this you here a good job getting dispatched to another unit to a place that your closer to. So the patient that really needs your help now has to wait longer to receive care while you help someone that actually needs no help at all. Gets annoying at times but calls like that eat up the clock. I had a job once where a 19 year old guy called 911 saying he was having a stroke. (just to get us there quicker when in reality we respond to mostly all calls as quick as we can) I get to the apartment and he is standing their saying his tooth is hurting a little and he thinks he has a cavity. He then says everything else is fine and he needs to go to the hospital. I give my partner a look of utter disgust, contained my anger, and took the brat in. Good Calls ~ Those don't happen as often but when they do we will sometimes race each other to get their first. Don't get me wrong, people only see us when something bad has happened (or the above) and no one wants to see another person hurt in anyway. But knowing that when those things do happen I'm the go to guy is a sweet feeling. Shootings, stabbings, car crashes, respiratory/cardiac arrest, imminent births (still haven't delivered a baby yet but i have my fingers crossed on that one) and afew of the other call types where we can be the difference between life and death are the ones we trained for and secretly love to do, especially if there is a happy ending. Last year I got my first pre-hospital save award (given in situations where you arrive to find a patient in VERY bad shape, you and your partner do your thing, and your actions save someones life) A guy in his mid 30's thought leftover chinese food was a good breakfast idea and ended up with a big chunk of boneless spare rib lodged in his trachea. By the time we got their he was not breathing and had no pulse. My partner and I performed cpr (which is something that EVERYONE should learn cuz you never know when you might need to use it) popped out that spare rib, hit him with a few shocks and brought back a faint pulse. 3 or so minutes later a paramedic unit (medics have higher training than emt's and can deliver a bucket load more medication) that was backing us arrived, pushed some wonder drugs and we were off to the hospital. The medics were kinda stunned that we got a pulse back without them and that guy is still alive last i heard. Alls well that ends well. Gross calls ~ These are the blood and guts all over the floor and walls type. I was about a month fresh out of emt academy and was assigned to a mentor unit. My mentor was a huge buff (ems slang for someone that attempts to take all the good calls even if its assigned to another unit or hes a million miles away from the location) and always monitored our Fdny/Ems dispatchers and even Nypd dispatchers, listening out for a good job. Were in the ambulance eating and a call for a jumper down comes over the air. Without a word the guy starts flying to the call which is at least 30 blocks away from us. We get there in what felt like under a minute and the cops on scene lead us to the back alley of an apartment building that looked to be about 20 or so stories high. Once back there I saw a scene that looked like it was out of one of those mid 80's B horror flicks. There was surprisingly not much blood save for afew liters around the jumpers head and chest. As I came closer i had to watch my step because 1- small chunks of brain matter surrounded the poor guys body in easily a 5 foot radius and 2- the jumpers arms and legs had multiple fractures, indicating that he tried to brace himself before the fall. Thats not to common in suicide attempts and pd was investigating this as a possible homicide so i needed to preserve the crime scene. The weirdest thing about this (other than the brains and the distorted extremities ) was the condition of the guys head. His face was for the most part intact but his skull was split down the middle from his forehead back to his spine. And with all the brains on the floor at this point when you looked into the split skull (which kinda looked like a lobster claw if you can picture it) all you saw was the remains of his eyes, some nerve tissue, and his tongue) Needless for me to say there wasn't much for me to do except let the cops finish up. I did want to finish my food later but was so sick i just threw it away. My Best Call ~ I love the variety of calls an emt can see in a day. Some of my favorite calls are edp's (emotionally disturbed person) because you never know what you will run into. But out of all the crazy calls, the gross calls and the exciting calls, my absolute favorite job was a pediatric respiratory arrest call i responded to. The jobs that we absolute hate to do are the pediatric jobs. Seeing kids in bad situations is really tough and seeing a lifeless child is something that I have seen only once and never want to again. (My favorite job is not one such job though so you can keep reading ) A job comes up on my screen for a ped resp arrest. The text stated that she was 4 months old, blue, none responsive and not breathing. Me and my partner already knew to expect the worst and were silent while racing to the job. We go into the house and sitting in a carrier on the dinning room table is on of the cutest babies i have ever seen. Her teary eyed mother is playing with her and her father is explaining to us that everything is alright now. I was glad to hear it but seeing that babies smiling face after thinking the worse told me that before the father had a chance to. The father explained that his daughter was suffering from a very bad cold for afew days but wasn't sure if he should take her to a doctor. While her mother was feeding her she began gasping and stopped breathing. The father knew pediatric cpr and brought up a ton of mucus that was obstructing her airway. (essentially saving her life and giving me and my partner nothing to do ;D ) During the physical exam the only thing i could find wrong with the baby was a very small patch of bruising on her sternum from the compressions. Other than that she was perfectly fine. We took her in for evaluation and i was treated to the coos and smile of a darling little baby and the beaming pride of quick thinking parents who not only gave their child life but saved it as well. There was no big rescues, no saving the day (i didn't ever lift a finger really) no blood and guts, and no wildly funny moments, but so far in my 1 and a half years of being a nyc emt that was by far my most surprising and best call.
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Post by Pylat on Oct 25, 2007 1:45:53 GMT -8
Your job is far more exciting than mine Cleppy, I'll give you that. Though you'll be proud to learn that I know CPR, I did my first First Aid course when I was only 9 (Growing up in the country meant lots of swimming in the ocean, so we all learned First Aid just in case, kids included). Heck I was so young I had to breath into the noses of people cause my mouth wouldn't fit over theirs
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Post by avery1 on Oct 25, 2007 12:01:54 GMT -8
nice stories.
I slup wares... software so I do lots of Jerry McGuires... screaming "Help me to help you." (technically speaking)
But EMT you have so much actual life or death (or quality of life) impact it's nice to hear all that.
ave
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Post by Am4terasu on Nov 6, 2007 1:30:57 GMT -8
Holy Hannah those are some stories! I've nothing but respect for what you do, dealing with arse, blood and guts day in and day out.
-Amaterasu, feeling slightly nauseus
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