No surprise here. . .

Well sho-nuff yesterday sucked... The morning was decent we were out on calls but it was fairly quiet none the less. Then around 11 the discharges started and the IFTs started and the city woke up and next thing you know I'm knee deep in the discharge rotation, thats all I did till about 1800. I hate D/Cs and IFTs, sure they are easy but thats why I hate them, its all mindless bullshit. "Ok get the paperwork from the nurses' station; then write down the demos, Hx and meds; then load and transport to the nursing home or dialysis or their doc's appt.; have the tech finish the rest in back along with a quick set of vitals; drop em off get a signiture and leave for the next one." I hate being in that loop, I didn't run a 911 call till around 1600 I think and boy was that guy a winner... The engine co. requests for the diabetic, we get there this guys puking and the engine boss is giving me the 'he's a frequent flyer' wink, he has an ID tag form Sinai from yesterday when he was last there. The guy is an ass, hes 2 blocks from Sinai hospital but wants to go to Froedtert which is another 8 miles out of the way cause they give him bus fare... Hello dumbass if you go to the one 2 blocks away you wont need bus fare CAUSE YOU CAN F***ING WALK!!!!! So we convince him to go to Sinai and the ER staff begin their assesment and I ask him to give me his 'entitlement' card so I can copy it. He tells me he doesnt have title 19 (state aid) after first telling me he did, I say, "Do you have it or not?" he grins and says "No Im not tellin you, now how you gonna get paid?" I reply "Hey your just gonna get the bill for the transport." and leave. Secretly I think, "Sweet at least I wont have to pay for his ride w/ my taxes. . . Dumbass." I later find out he was admitted for a blood sugar of around 390 and a temp of 102, apparently he really was sick but fire, sinai, and myself figured he was just an ass. . . I guess it doesn't pay too cry wolf.

We get to station 3 around 1900 and we get to rest for an hour until DIPspatch realizes that my partner is off at 2000 at station 2 so we return to our own quarters and get her out and my new partner in and thats when the fun starts. . . The radio lights up and we are all going non-stop even the 2 ALS buses are out running calls. Next thing I know I get a call from DIPspatch and I am informed that I am car-9 meaning I get to go around an collect everyones run sheets for the day from their respective stations, instaed of sleeping. So I do and we get almost all of them in before about 0300. At about 0200 or so some lower life form decides he wants to jump off the I794 bridge (about a 200' drop onto the docks) so I have to go sit at the end of the bridge for an hour to see if FD wants us there. They don't and we leave, again without sleeping. The rest of the night was more discharges from St. Lukes hospital and one emergency call to a nursing home for a busted hip status post a fall, Wisconsin doesn't allow nursing homes to have railings on the beds cause its considered restraints, big surprise when granny rolls out and pops a hip on the floor. . . Stupid state. I went without sleep all night and I mean absolutely NO sleep for a straight 27 hours. . . Keep in mind I was working on about 4 hours or less sleep before coming in. 25 calls after midnight was what the CAD had recorded for only about 5 squads on overnight. I think I ran 6 or 7 of them. Clocked out at 0700, went and had coffee with Brad one of our Meds, he's a great guy and one of the reasons I'm sorry I'm leaving red shift but blue shift needs crew chiefs and the Ops Director asked me personally if I could help so I will. Brad's a brother firefighter/paramedic on Delafield and its nice to just sit and bullshit about the crappy nights with a brother in battle after we can escape the insanity.

I start blue shift tomorrow at 0700, only 24 hours off between this last shift and my next instead of 48, thats gonna kill me but oh well. . . I suppose it comes with the job. The packer game is on, I love that team but somehow I don't feel like cheering, I just want to be quiet for a little while. I'll watch it though because I love em, maybe I can escape in the game.

I applied for a firefighter position in North Carolina. Its on a Marine Corps Station at Cherry Point. I honestly don't want to leave anyone behind if I get the job, and I want a big city position anyway. I want to fight fires and the big cities are where that happens not on a Marine Base. I hope Milwaukee sends out interest cards soon. . .

Detroit just got the first first-down of the game, I'm really not interested. Well I guess I'll watch anyway.

Hope tomorrow goes better, at least a couple hours sleep after midnight would be nice.

Packers just got a sack, I feel proud of them. Think I'll end this one or else I'll start writing a philosophy article based on the life of an EMT in the city. . .

CALL THE BOX!!