You know your an EMT if.... Your personal jump kit is better equipped than the one in your ambulance. You can tell its a full moon without looking at the calendar. You prefer a Code Blue to a Code Brown any day.* Youve ever Code Surfed.* It doesnt matter if youre black or white, as long as youve got good rhythm.* You know what the world looks like at 3:30 in the morning.* You drive past a house and say Oh, thats where we had that __________ call.* You love critiquing how they do CPR on TV shows.* You know what treat with high flow diesel means.* You know how to treat a patient with LSD.* You drive past the ER ambulance bay just to see whos busy today.* You believe coffee is one of the food groups.* You catch yourself eating twice as fast as everyone else when off duty.* You believe full spinal precautions were invented for obnoxious drunks.* You find humor in other peoples stupidity.* Your paycheck depends on the aforementioned stupidity of others.* You believe the government should require a permit to reproduce.* Your favorite hallucinogenic is exhaustion.* Youve ever responded to a call where the directions include, ...turn off the paved road..* Youve ever thought OD instead of BBQ when asked to get the charcoal.* Youve sworn that you were going to have DNR tattooed on your chest.* You automatically multiply by 3 the answer to the question, How many drinks did you have tonight?.* Youve ever used an NPA to determine a patients unresponsiveness.* You realize that the biggest difficulty in your job is that, on a daily basis, you try to reverse the process of natural selection.* You can drink a cup of coffee and go straight to bed.* You can identify the positive teeth to tattoo ratio.* You plan your weekends off a year in advance.* You disbelieve 90% of what you are told and 75% of what you see.* You think caffeine should be available in IV form.* Your family members have to have a fever of 105 or be missing a limb with active bleeding to obtain your sympathy.* (R.I.C.E. Erin Makenzie & Junior Wyatt) Youve ever held a 14 gauge needle over someones vein and said, Now theres gonna be a little poke..* Youve ever cursed out anyone for Armor-Alling the seats to make them look nice.* Your favorite assessment question is, What changed after two weeks to make this an emergency at 0300?.* You hear someone mutter the words Ambulance Driver in your direction and you immediately black out due to rage.* (ABSOLUTELY) You believe Murphy and his law can go straight to the seventh circle of hell.* Youve made crude puns and jokes at the most horrific scenes imaginable while others look at you and your crew with shock.* You meet someone for the first time, and instead of looking them in the eyes, you look at possible venous access, just in case.* A relative is in the local ER, and you drive to the hospital, but cant figure out where anyone but the ambulances park.* You say en route over the phone, off duty.* You can sleep soundly through sirens, screaming, dispatch tones, and other various noises... until you jolt awake because your unit number is called.* You recognize your frequent flyers not by name, but by address.* You hear sirens, and you can immediately differentiate between the source of the sirens: EMS, PD, or FD.* You cant decide on your reaction to getting a call: Hell yeah or God damn it.* You freak people out in their POVs by yelling out Clear Right! at any given intersection* Unconscious means cooperative.* Welfare week plus full moon equals you arent getting any sleep.* Youve put lido jelly on your partners toothbrush late at night for shits and giggles.* Youve ever left your ambulance door unlocked at a hospital and come out to some horrible joke having been played on you (someone turning your sirens on, someone using a spine board strap to tie your inside door handles together, etc.).* Youve talked about your dinner plans over a DOA
Posted on: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 08:43:03 +0000
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