Let the Countdown Begin, 7 Days to Go

I went to bed Tuesday night around 02:05 hours and got up Wednesday morning at 07:10 hours when my alarm went off. I got out of bed and got dressed and then grabbed my digital camera and suitcase and took them out to the kitchen. I then packed my lunch and got my Gatorade bottles together. I then left the house around 07:25 hours and headed up to Eville to go to work. I stopped at Koppy's and picked up a newspaper and then continued to the station. I got there and parked and headed inside. I put my lunch box and Gatorade bottles in the fridge and then sat my suitcase, pouch and scope on the table beside the green couch and then clocked in. I did a quick rig check and then I talked with Kathy out back while she smoked. Capt. Carl then showed up and then Jim showed up for the day. I then went inside and ate breakfast while I filled out my paperwork and then checked a few things online. I then pulled up my wish list and went back to the websites to double check the prices that I had gotten last month, and naturally some of the prices had changed in a month's time. Then around 09:10 hours the tones went off for a fall victim in Gratz Borough at the Gratz Park Terrace. Capt. Carl was out in the bay smoking and I went out and got in 6-4 and then he got in and off we went. We got up there and I grabbed the clipboard just incase the lady only needed help getting up and Capt. Carl grabbed the BLS bag and we went in. When we found the apartment we knocked and then tried to open the door, but it was locked. Capt. Carl knocked on the door and tried to ask the lady if she could get to the door to unlock it or not. Meanwhile I went back down the hallway where we had originally went down and talked to one of the residents to find out if anyone had a key. The one resident said that the pt's daughter did, but she was down in North Carolina on vacation. She said that she would go upstairs and talk to another reisdent and get her to call maintenance to see if they could send someone over. Capt. Carl called county and asked them if they had a call back number and they told us to hold on. We then heard the phone in the apartment ring and then a lady from the medical alert company talking to her. The resident fomr upstairs came down and said that she couldn't get ahold of the maintance man. She said that we should have the number for her pastor who also has a key. We told her that we don't have any phone numbers for the pastor. She said that she would try calling. She did and came back and said that he wasn't answering his phone. County then asked us if we wanted the fire department and I said to Capt. Carl to go ahead and have county dispatch them class 3. I then said to Carl that I wish we had a set of irons on the truck. Engine 27 then got there and the guy came in and I told him that if the mainteance man wasn't there in 5 more minutes, we were going to have him break the door down. Well the mainteance man got there with 2 minutes to spare. He got the door unlocked and pushed it up and it stopped, she also had the chain on. The mainteance man reached in and tried to unhook it and he couldn't. We had told the guy from the Engine that he could go, but when we found the chain, I called him back. After about a minute of the maintance man messing with it, he told us we could break the chain, and I turned to the guy and said go at it. He took 3 swings with the Hooligan bar and the chain broke. We got inside and found her laying beside her bed in her bedroom. We got her up on the bed and after talking with her she decided that it was best that she go down to the hospital to get checked out. We got her loaded up and took her down to Harrisburg Hospital. After we got what we needed, we headed on back. Once back at the station, I ate lunch while I went back to looking up prices for my wish list supplies and then looking for some supplies that Steve asked me to look for. Steve joked with Carl about him buying two pizza's for lunch and after about 30 minutes, Carl said that he would do that. So he ordered the pizza's and when it was time to head up, he asked me if I wanted to go along up, or would I rather stay here and continue working on looking up supplies for Steve. I said I would rather stay and it wasn't that far from the station anyway. So Carl left and was back in about 4 minutes. Once he got back I took a break and had 2 pieces of pizza and watched a little TV. I then got back on the computer and continued to look up supplies. Once I was done I then printed out my list and went over the BLS room. I had just started doing an inventory when around 14:03 hours the tones went off for a diabetic problem in Wiconisco Township at Meadowbrook Coal Company. 6-5 handeled that call and it ended up being a refusal. After I was done with the BLS room, I did the ALS room and then once I was done with that, I updated my inventory's on the computer. Once I was done with that, I went out into the day room and read the paper. I then got back on the computer and played a few games. The UPS guy then came in with my order that I had placed on Sunday. I signed for it and then took the two boxes of 1,000 NSS out to the ALS room. By the time I got to the bay's I had to sit the boxes down. I sat one on the back bumper of 6-1 and the other on the back bumper of 6-4 and that was when I noticed that the right side of the rear bumper was bent. I moved the boxes into the ALS room and then came back out to look at the bumper. I knew that the bumper was straight when I came in that morning and I knew it was straight once when we got back from the hospital, but I still tried to remember if I hit anything down at the hospital when I was backing in, and I couldn't think of anything. So I called Boyer quick and asked him if anyone had said anything to him and he said no. I told him about the damage to 6-4 and then went back to the day room and grabbed my other box and put the rest of the supplies away. Once I was done with that, I got back on the computer. Then around 16:30 hours the tones went off for a chest pains call in Schulykill County. Once again 6-5 took that call. Carl was now awake that the tones had gone off. I asked him to come out to the bay for a minute and jokingly I asked him what the hell he hit with the ambulance. He went shhhhh to me and then went over and looked at the bumper. He then made the comment that he didn't think he hit it that hard and and he didn't that it did that much damage. I now knew that he wasn't joking. I asked him what he hit and he said he hit one of those cement post at Koppy's when he went up to get the pizza's. He then filled out an incident report and I got back on the computer to play a game. Tim then came in around 19:30 hours and then 6-5 went available and Steve and Beef came down to restock and for Beef to log his narc numbers. They then noticed Tim looking under the rear bumper of 6-4 as did Jim when he came out. They asked what happened and Carl said that he accidently backed into a pole at Koppy's. Jim was surprised that Carl did not report it to the on duty supervisor. Everyone then left and then me and Tim got in 6-4 and headed up to Burger King to get something to eat for dinner. It took us awhile for us to get our food as it was really packed. Tim then said he had to run up to Wal-Mart to make a payment. I said I had to run to the men's department. We got up there and I went in and looked at belts, but didn't find one my size, so I went back out to the unit. I was standing outside when my cell phone rang and it was my honey, Kathy. She said that she could see me. I saw her truck and she said she wasn't in it. I started looking around and she came out from behind the ambulance. She then asked me if this was the truck that Carl hit the pole with. I said yes and she started looking at it and talking to me. She then went back in and John came out to look at it. After he looked at it he went back in and Kahty came out with her cart of stuff and we talked a little bit more and then we left and headed back to the station. Once there I ate dinner while we watched the last two episodes of Season 4 of Emergency. After we watched the first one, Tim went outside to smoke and then we sat down to watch the last episode. I had just started it when the tones went off for a ALS call in Lykens Borough. Once again 6-5 handeled the call and went to Hershey Hospital. After we finished with Emergency, I watched the Discovery Channel until I went to sleep around 02:00 hours. I was rocked out of bed around 04:10 hours when the tones went off for a CVA in Reed Township. I got up and got the stuff back on my belt and and got my boots on. Tim hadn't come out of the bunk room yet, so I went back and told him to get up that we had a CVA in Reed Township. I then went to the computer room and put us responding before they hit for us again. When I came out of the computer room, Tim was coming out and we went out and both got in 6-4 and off we went. We got down there and helped get the lady loaded and moved Tim's gear over and then they headed down to Holy Spirit Hospital and I headed back to Sheetz. They got back a little before 06:00 hours and once Tim got his coffee, we headed back to the station. Once there and after helping Tim restock his gear, I went back to sleep around 06:30 hours. I woke up around 07:30 hours and decided to just get up. I put my pillow away and then got the stuff back on my belt and got my boots back on. I then filled out a time card and then took my stuff out to my car and then came back in and used the bathroom. John got there around 08:10 hours and I clocked out and told him about the truck and then left and headed on home. Once at home I changed into pj's an went back to bed to get some more sleep. I woke up this afternoon at 13:30 hours when Bill sent me a text message. I then got up and munched on some crackers while I read the paper. Bill then showed up with my check and then we talked a little bit and then he left. I then got the mail and then came back in and went back to reading the paper. My parents then came home from my father's doctor appointment. I then got on the computer to do a few things and then ate dinner while I watched MASH on TV and did a few things on the computer. I am soon going to leave to head into town to get my hair cut and once I get home I will be back online to check my 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.