A Great Day at Work

I went to bed Tuesday night around 03:05 hours and got up at 07:10 hours when my alarm went off. I got out of bed and got dressed and then grabbed my suitcase and digital camera and took them out to the kitchen. I then packed my lunch abd grabbed my Gatorade bottles and then left the house around 07:30 hours and headed to Eville to go to work. I got there and parked and went inside and put my lunch box and Gatorade bottles in the fridge and then clocked in. There was a box of supplies sitting on the table in the kitchen. I put them away and then did a quick check on the ALS supplies. I then went to head into the hall way and Tindell met me at the door. He told me to take 6-2 and go up to the square in Eville and met 6-5 coming down from Lykens. He told me to switch out with Brian as Stutzman was already in the back with a BLS patient and he was the oncoming EMT. As I was pulling out with 6-2 I saw Kathy pull in and get out and take her bag inside. I was supposed to have Dwayne, but he called off and Kathy picked up the shift. So I did this and met 6-5 and switched out with Brian and then drove 6-5 down to Harrisburg Hospital. After we got what we needed down there, we headed on back. I took my time coming back as I didn't want to go eat breakfast with Jim, but alas we did. We got back and then we all left and headed up to Special Place for breakfast. I had a side order of bacon and a side order of white toast. After we ate breakfast, we all ran up to Wal-Mart, with different ideas in mind. Me and Kathy went looking for more bug and tar spray for the units. While we were back there looking around, the tones went off to assist in the search for a missing child in Mifflin Township. We walked back out to 6-4 and off we went. Naturally Jim and Stutzman were ahead of us and Steve came behind in 6-2. We got there and after being there only 5 minutes they found the kid after he had been missing for over 1 hour. We went available and I started my run around to hang up flyers. We stopped at Klinger Lumber first, then stopped at Shell where I got fuel and also hung up two flyers. We then stopped at Koppy's and Jo-Jo's and then I dropped two of at Kratzer's and then we headed back to the station. Once there I did a quick chart on the call while Kathy and Tim took naps on the couches. Steve left around 16:30 hours and then Tim went up to Koppy's around 18:00 hours to get dinner and then me and Kathy went up to Koppy's and we got something for dinner and headed on back. Kathy then left around a little after 20:00 hours and then me and Tim sat down and watched two episodes of Emergency. Then around 22:40 hours, the tones went off for breathing problems in Halifax Township, Tim went down in the Squad since Stutzman had come down to the station as Tommy was not coming in up at Lykens until midnight. Me and Stutzman watched the Olympics on TV and I got to watch the Gold Medal Match of Women's Beach Volleyball and watch Misty May and Kerri Walsh defend their gold. Stutzman then left around 23:45 hours to head back up to Lykens. Tim then called me around 00:40 hours and told me to listen incase he got another call as he would need paper for his monitor. About 15 minutes later I heard 13's tones go off, followed by ours for seizrues in Halifax Township. I got up and went out to the ALS room and grabbed two rolls of paper and then got in 6-4 and took off for Halifax Township. It was up in the one trailer park and I knew the mother of the child. I got there and she ended up refusing to have the child transported as she was going to keep giving him Tylenol and call the family doctor in the morning. I then headed on back to Eville while 13 took Tim back to his squad. When I left he trailer park, I went down North Elmer Ave. to head back to Eville. When I pulled out I took my time but still heard the rear bumper scrape the pavement. Once I got back to Eville and backed in the station, I went around back to see if I had left any scrape marks and the right side of the bumper was pushed up about 1/2 inch and pulled away from the bottom of the body about a 1/2 inch. I started cursing and went into the computer room and grabbed an incident report and wrote it up. Once Tim got back I had him read the incident report and then I helped him restock his gear. He then got under the back of the unit and took a look at the bumper. Here I had only sheard off one of the bolts, which it was designed to do and the bumper is also adjustable and had just slid away from the body. He loosened up the bolts and pushed it back in to where it belonged and re tightened the bolts and it didn't even look like I did anything to it. I then went to sleep around 03:00 hours and woke up at 07:10 hours when the tones went off for breathing problems in Wayne Township. I got everything back on my belt and then got my boots on and I noticed that Tim hadn't come out of the bunk room yet. So I went back and woke Tim up and told him that was our terroirty and he got up and we got in 6-4 and off we went. We got there about the same time as 13-2 and it was Holly's grandmother, again. I helped get her loaded and then I headed back to the station. Bruce and Bruce were already there and Tommy came in as I was backing in the station and then Zack came out in the bays. I clocked out and stayed until 08:30 hours and then left and headed on home. Once at home I changed into pj's and went back to bed to get some more sleep. I woke up this afternoon around 14:00 hours. I got out of bed and ate lunch while I read the paper. I then left the house around 16:20 hours and headed up to the fire house to meet Bubba and Robin to car pool down to the pipeline training class tonight. I got there and went down to the house and once Jess got home we got in the Montaro and headed into town to pick Troy up from his Aunt's house on Powell's Valley Road. We then stopped at Shell and we all got something to drink and then headed on down to the hotel for the training. We got there and went inside and signed in and then got our goodies and then got our free food. The Roast Beef was out of this world as was the piece of chocolate cake that I got for desert. The training was good this year and we were out of there around 20:15 hours and headed on home. We stopped at Sheetz so they could get a pack of smokes for Jess and then we dropped Troy off at his truck and then we headed back to there house. Once there I got my stuff out of there car and put it in mine and then talked with Jess for a little bit while Bubba and LeeAnn headed up to the fire house. After I finished talking to Jess I headed up to the fire house and the three of us talked for a little bit and then Bubba gave me some stuff to take up with us to Wal-Mart later today to hand out and then I headed on home around 21:30 hours. Once at home I took a shower and am soon going to bed as I am tired.