Oh what these eyes have seen...

Went to bed last night around 02:30 hours and my mother woke me up around 07:00 hours this moring, because there was something the matter with out cat April. I came out to the living room and we talked about what was wrong, and we decided that my mother should run her up to the vets when they opened up. I got changed and ate breakfast. I then helped put April in her cage and then my mother took her up to the vets to be checked out. They got back home around 10:30 hours. Our little girl was ok, she has some arthrities in her back, a slight problem with her liver, and an over-active thyroid, which she is on medication for all three. Read the paper and watched a little tv. Then I got on my computer to do some work and eat lunch. Bill got on and I was talking to him. Then Scott got on and he told me that there was a brush fire in Halifax Township, but we do not respond on them, unless the fire department needs us. A few minutes later, Millersburg got tapped out for an accident with injuries with a head on collison. I got my boots on incase we would get called to it, and we did. So I headed on into the shed and before we got there they cancelled us. So me, Bill, and Carol were standing outside talking when we heard 29's house siren go off, followed by our pagers. It was for a strucutre fire in Millersburg Borough. We went responding right away and stood by for about 1 hour. We had just backed the unit into the "Barn" and I had gone back to the office to get my times, when we were tapped out for an Accident with injuries involving a motorcycle, and the motorcyclist was under the van. Went responding right away and got on scene. In five minutes he went down hill. When we pulled up, he went into cardiac arrest and five minutes later, we called it. Stayed there until everything was sorted out and then headed back to the station. Got my times and me and Bill went up to McDonald's and got dinner and headed back to the station and I did my paper work for my two calls. Sue then stopped in and we talked about the accident. She then left and I finished up around 22:00 hours. Headed up to Sheetz and got gas, and then headed home. Took a shower and just finished eating my snack. Got a few things to do, then I am hitting the sack it has been a long day.

I leave you with this thought by an unknow author:
I wish you coule realize the physical, emotional, and mental drain of missed meals, lost sleep, and relinquished social activites, in addition to all the tragedy my eyes have seen.

Unless you have lived this kind of life, you will never truly understand or appreciate who I am, who we are, or what our job really means to us...

I wish you could though.