#emtclass

I e almost officially completed my EMT course.

I’m more than a little sad about this as I really love my class and I wish I got to spend more time with them. But soon I get to take my test to get my EMT liscence. Then it’s just a few short months until I can start applying to work part time at a hospital or dispatch. Granted I’d only be able to work half or partial shifts due to still being a student. But hopefully they at least consider me for week end work. And I’m the summer.

Lt.:No- well my father died of a heart attack last year but that doesn’t matter, I know what a heart attack feels like!

Me: Are you on any heart medication?

Lt.: No, I’m on some stupid prescription my doctor gave me. Some sorta blood thinner I think. Why the hell do you need to know that? What are you even doing here?

Me: *without thought and much louder then intended* sir, please we’re just trying to insure you don’t end up like your father. Will you please just anwser a few more questions then we can call control and get you the paper work so we can leave?

“Rubber necks cause wreaks”

So when you see an EMT class looking confused and like they don’t know what they are doing well one of them lays on the ground under a bike and a guy wear beer googles well One person does CPR on a dummy like their life depends on it

Added to that my families... bad luck/accident proneness and you get a lot of random knowledge about how to break/damage a lot of things

(particularly things on the human body)

This all means that apparently the following are not common knowledge?:

It only takes about 8-10 pounds of pressure to rip and eat off

10 or less pounds (if hit correctly) to break a nose and possibly kill someone (if hit correctly)

The when/ if the top three vertebrae of the neck are broken or fractured this is known as a “hanged mans fracture” because when your hanging someone ideally those are the ones that break and kill them (almost) instantly.

You can’t hold a human head in one hand - like a full human head- Well they only weight about 7-10 pounds, because of how they are shaped it will just roll out of your hand. (I’m sure there’s exceptions to this rule.)

You can in fact break you back and not be paralyzed. The trick is you have to make sure not to break your spinal cord. If you break the spine ( the bones protecting the large nerve) then there’s a fair chance of you being able to recover.

(Both my dad and my step dad have broken their backs and maintain motor functions... actually mentioning that my dads broken him back a good three or four times in multiple places each... he really shouldn’t be walking at this point.)

Humans are some of the most durable and breakable things on this planet. And it never stops amazing me how people can fall down two flights of stairs and be find then stub there toe and be left in tears.

Our teacher drinks his skim milk with ice?

Which granted whatever his choice but I’ve just

I can’t comprehend this? Like skim milk is basically water already and you put ice in it?

Oh also! He puts skim milk and ice in his chocolate milk?