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Location: Halifax, Pennsylvania, United States

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Respitory Difficulties

I left the house around 19:10 hours last night and headed up to Lykens to go to work. When I left the house I called Ciao's and placed an order for pick up of a ham and cheese sub and a side order of 4 chicken fingers. Once up in Lykens I stopped at Ciao's and picked up my order and a 2 liter bottle of Fanta Orange Soda and then headed to the station. Once there Tim was outside smoking a cigar. I parked and grabbed my stuff and headed inside. John came walking out with his stuff to put in his car. I went inside and put my Gatorade bottle, Fanta, and Sub in the fridge and then clocked in. I then did a rig check on 6-7 and then went outside to talk to Tim and John. Tim told me that he didn't have a single call all day and that Bowser was on down in Eville. John clocked out a little early and headed on home. Then around 19:50 hours Tim said about sitting down to watch an episode of Emergency. So I put in Disc 2 and we watched an episode of Season 4 of Emergency, and I ate my 4 chicken fingers. After that one was over, Tim went out into the bay to smoke a cig. We had just come back in and sat down to watch another episode, when the tones went off for seizrues at the Wal-Mart in Washington Township. Yeager and Bowser took the call. After Tim heard the information, he said about taking a ride down there incase they needed any help. I told Tim that by the time we got down there, they would probablly already be loaded up and ready to head to the hospital. He said he knew but still wanted to head on down. So we got in 6-7 and headed on down class 3. As we pulled in the parking, lot Yeager put them enroute to Harrisburg Hospital. We turned around and Tim had me stop at McDonald's and he got a hot fudge sunday and I got a small vanilla milk shake and then we headed back to the Lykens Station. Once there we watched the second episode of Emergency. After that I put it away and watched some Deadlist Catch on TV while Tim played some Texas Hold 'Em on the computer. He then left and headed home around 23:10 hours. I then got on the computer and played some Texas Hold 'Em myslef while I ate my sub and finished my Fanta. I was going to sit down on the couch around 01:00 hours to watch the new episode of Deadlist Catch. Around 00:50 hours the tones went off for an unconscious person in Lykens Borough. I got in 6-7 and called Tim to make sure he heard the call. He said he did and I told him I was coming up the street. I picked him up at his house and went responding. County told us it was a male that was unconscious and barley breathing. When we got on scene, county told us that there was so0me confusion on the phone, that at first they thought it might have been a cardiac arrest, but then the wife said he was breathing but barley, and now they weren't sure and if we needed anyone else to let them know. I went around to the side of the unit and grabbed the BLS bag and the wife came to the door and said that he was barley breathing. I took off into the house and asked her where he was and she said in the bedroom and I asked her when she found him like this. She said that they were both in bed and he got up to use the bathroom and collpased back on the bed. When I walked into the bedroom, he was on his back and had aganol respirations. Tim came in as I was putting my gloves on and I checked for a pulse and he had one. Tim then told me to get the bag valve mask out. I started to and Tim said to grab his arms and move him to the ground and then we moved the bed out of the way. I started bagging the guy and I asked Tim if he wanted any help and he said yes. So he quickly called county on his cell phone and told them that he wanted fire and 6-3 to assist for respitory difficulties. I continued to bag him while they dispatched for MICU 6-3 and 22 to respond to assist. Chief 22 showed up and I asked him to get me another oxygen bottle out of 6-7 and bring it in. Tim had tried to tube him, but the guy ended upo swallowing it. Before he tried to tube the guy, hje had me put an oral airway in the guy. If I remember correctly, I think that might have only been my 3rd or 4th oral in almost 5 years of running EMS. Tim finally got a nasal tube in him and Chief 22 asked Tim if he wanted to fly the guy, and Tim said yes. We originally had the LZ set up at the L&W ball field. When we heard that Life Lion had a 7 minute eta we changed the LZ to the Upper Dauphin High School. We got the guy loaded into the Reeves stretcher and the fire company and Yeager carried him out and onto the stretcher and then loaded him into the back of 6-7. I then got in and we headed on down to the high school to the LZ. We got there just as Life Lion was making the fly over of the LZ. They got him loaded into Life Lion and off they went to Hershey. We then went back to the Eville station to clean up the back of 6-7 since it was a disaster. We got it cleaned up and I checked on supplies and put my supplies away that came in and then we left to head back up to Lykens. We stopped at Koppy's so Tim could get something to eat. I got an Orange popsicle and a small Pepsi. We then headed back up to Lykens. I stopped at the station and Tim grabbed a thing of morphine out of the bag in the cabinet in the station and put it in the med bag on the truck and then I ran him up to his house and then back to the station I went. I finally laid down and went to sleep around 03:24 hours. I woke up at 07:50 hours when the tones went off for a fall victim in Lykens Borough. As I was getting the stuff back on my belt, Steve called my cell phone and told me to meet him out front and we would take the call real quick. I finished putting the stuff back on my belt and then got my boots on. I heard the door close and someone get in the truck. I went out and it was Tim. I opened the day door and started the truck and put us responding and pulled out. Steve was walking up the sidewalk and I stopped as he point at Tim and told him to get out that he wasn't working anymore and to go home. Steve then got in and we headed to the scene. Once we got there I grabbed the BLS bag and we went inside. I turned out to be more of a public assist. Shultz then showed up, followed by Kathy. We then went available and headed back to the station. Me and Steve had just gotten out of the truck and Shultz and Kathy had just walked in when the tones went off for a fall victim, class 2 at the Keepler Home in Eville Borough. Shultz and Kathy took that call and off they went. I clocked out and did a quick chart on the public assist and then talked with Steve for a little bit and then headed on home. Once at home I changed into pj's and went back to bed to get some more sleep. I got up this afternoon around 13:01 hours. I got up and ate lunch while I read the paper. I then got on the PS2 and played some NASCAR 2008. I got off at 16:50 hours and got on the computer to do a few things. I just finished eating dinner while watching MASH. I am soon going to go take a shower. I am then going to hit the old email and surf the net. I will be on late tonight so if any sexy ladies want to talk to me, just give me a buzz.

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