#paramedic problems

When people say “it’s the new normal”

I guess this is what they meant.

Last year I started keeping track of all the chaos I started at work and posted it here. This year I'm several days late on posting it but here you go:

▪I knighted the intern as Sir Samson of the SVT, because that's all we saw while he was on the rig.

▪︎I ran screaming into the main because our ops manager granted my wish and gave me a new ambulance.

▪︎I called him the genie of the valley of insanity

▪︎I sprained my ankle on scene of a call AFTER helping an elderly woman back into her wheelchair

▪︎I worked for 96 hours straight and by the end of it I had my head out the window screaming "we are the champions"

▪︎I was told several times to not make my face out loud bc patients can actually see that

▪︎I screamed through the busiest intersection in the city bc our lights and sirens went out and we were opposing and had the red

▪︎I made a compilation of disney songs and ended up on Instagram and in the sups office

▪︎I hung from the rail in the ambulance and said i was retiring bc i had become a lemur

▪︎I got to drive the sup car

▪︎I fumbled my unit number about ten times over the air with dispatch and eventually said idk what I'm on today but I'm here (got a write up for that one)

▪︎sat on the floor of a patient's house and held her dog in my lap while fire did everything

▪︎almost died when fire shocked a patient and I wasnt quite clear

▪︎said "cha cha really smooth" after fire told a patient to slide to the left

▪︎found crayons in the ambulance and filled out a few things in crayon, fire now offers to buy me coloring books and asks about my crayons everytime I see them

▪︎got a DOA on Christmas day and whispered "oh no Santa's dead somebody cancel Christmas" (he looked a lot like Santa)

▪︎ran around on Christmas eve asking everyone if they wanted a kiss only to hand them Hershey kisses and run off giggling

▪︎had a rough time with walk up medical aids, my partner was always asleep and disoriented when it happened.

▪︎saw a 9mm gunshot and thought to myself that's awfully small for all the screaming