It's been a good week. The kids have been home and I've spent a lot of time spoiling the granddaughter. One of the finner things in life I must admit. Almost right up there with fly fishing. The weather has turned for the better and we've had some really nice days. It's caused me to turn my thoughts toward the stream and some good fishing. I'm afraid that mother nature is not done with us and we will see her temper soon. Not that I'm against the snow and colder weather, but I've noticed as the age goes up the tolerance to the cold and wet goes down.

This past week at work has been equally as nice. We ran a total of three calls on the 4th and two on the 7th. The fourth was an interesting shift I must admit. We transferred a 70 year old female to a larger hospital in a nearby city so that she could undergo open heart surgery. It was an uneventful trip and the patient an I visited about our grandchildren on the way over. At 4:27 p.m. we responded to a domestic (a fight between a male and female) out in the county. We were told that the patient was a 15 year old female that had passed out and was now having problems breathing. When we got there it turned out to be a very bad overdose! We gave her some medications to reverse the overdose and she settled down a bit. We took her to the ER where they were able to reverse it completely with time and more medications. At 8:16 p.m. we responded to an 11 year old male that was having seizures. When we got there his foster mom told us he had been "in and out" of seizures for the past 1.5 hours! It turned out he was faking and just trying to get some attention. We got back to our station at 10:25 p.m. and slept thru the night.

Yesterday, the 7th, we responded to just two calls. A transfer to another hospital for a 67 year old female that had a severe case of sepsis (infection of the blood) came in at 10:19 a.m. For the most part it was an uneventful transfer. Her blood pressure dropped to 80 over 38 at one point but we were able to get it back up without much work. At 3:59 p.m. we responded to a medical emergency in town where a 67 year old male with lung cancer was having difficulty breathing. He was taken to the local ER and was doing well when we last saw him. That was our last call for the day and we slept thru the night again.

Until next time - be safe, slow down and remember to buckle up!