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badger_14

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  1. Having surgery to repair a very badly herniated disc (this is going on 2 years of sciatic/leg pain, worsening in spite of everything), which was not an easy decision to make anyway (it needs repair, but anxiety). Got a surgery date at Local Hospital, got a call a couple hours later saying Local Hospital flagged it because they're not in-network for my insurance. So, now likely having it at Specialty Hospital, but I'm not sure when, and have to wait til Monday for more news so I can arrange everything with my workplaces and the rest of my life. 😤 Healthcare is stressful. The surgeon's office and the Specialty Hospital have been great, at least.
  2. Does she tie or braid her hair back or let it flow? Braiding might keep it from getting caught.
  3. I swam in 2 open water swims this weekend (a half-mile on Saturday and a 500m this morning) and claimed first place in my age division both times! 🙂 Also this morning the water was 58F so I'm frankly happy that I finished at all. brr.
  4. For once, hockey fell on my birthday, it was well attended, and I played like a man possessed for 2 hours.
  5. Played way more hockey than expected this past weekend, made it to the championship game and got silver. Good times, great team, great fun.
  6. Did your roommate not see all those "Resting Is Healing ! :D" posters plastered in every hospital unit these days? <_<
  7. Ugh, that's a nightmare. I'm sorry this is all happening to you. Take care.
  8. Completed my very first open water swim race today, a 1/2 mile distance, and officially DID NOT finish last, placing 14th in a field of 21. (21 almost entirely wetsuited participants, minus me and one or two other people). I was also faster than I anticipated, making the distance in a cool 17:29.6, more than two minutes faster than I've done in a pool. I think I might now be addicted, and can't wait for my next race.
  9. Welp there goes that plan. Back to suggesting trying the largest of every model, and that CCM was a good fit for my roundish head.
  10. fwiw, I have a rounder head and the CCMs fit me well. But also if this batch of first responder/EMS happens to be in the Boston area I could solve your goalie problem right out 😏
  11. The rabbit always looking on the brown side of life!
  12. Well that sucks. Sorry to hear you're stuck back in hospital. Hope things start going better soon.
  13. That's what you get for going to some of the best hospitals in the world, right? 😉 "Sure, we can do this incredibly complicated surgery to rebuild a trachea out of plastics, but we also kinda forgot to snag a liver sample while we were in there. Sorry buddy."
  14. My (work) partner seems to feel that having to actually work is an imposition and incredibly unfair. This would be annoying under any job circumstance, but we're paramedics. (after a certain point, you just accept that some days are a vast illness-free desert and others are a nightmare vortex - and unless dispatch is asking you to do something dangerous, you just kinda roll with it). I was furious with him last night, in particular, for taking a markedly longer route (transfer from one hospital to another) with a patient loaded - when I asked, he told me he "didn't feel like" taking the (normal, fast, direct) regular route. The supervisor(s) say they're going to have a talk with him, so they tell me.
  15. Best of luck! I hope everything goes smoothly. Keep on being Bionic.
  16. Understood! He's apparently got a pattern of making extremely questionable to outright dangerous "treatment decisions" and has been repeatedly remediated for it. Eight (8) different people at last count have advised me about working with him, including our supervisor. As a new medic, it's a little traumatic to be looking to a - well, a terrible medic - for support and advice. Mainly I lean on my supervisor and other good medics (two of the most brilliant I've ever met work out of the same base and I catch them when I start my shift) but it's stressful to be watching both my decisions and his all at once when I have so little experience. 😥
  17. My partner made a major medication error last night, fortunately one that was caught before it was, you know, fatal, but the nurse was categorically unhappy and I'm over here like please do not associate me with this madman. Later, on a different call, my partner had the gall to give me shit for giving the correct medication in the correct situation because he thought she didn't need it. (a breathing treatment for a patient having trouble breathing.) This was all between 12am and 4am, so really not my night. >:|
  18. There's a few leagues here that draft, but they tend to be C+ and up. The few times I've played in a league it's been small and you at least have a single day of the week and a time range (e.g. a Sunday night league with rotating start times between 5pm and 8pm). Having games on a specific day at least makes it easier to schedule around work for most people.
  19. Came off third ride last week and onto my new "permanent" shift today. No fewer than 6 people have expressed concern to me about my new partner's competence and whether it's a good idea for him to be paired with a new paramedic and man, that was not a good sign. After 12 hours I have concerns about his ability to function as a person. However, there is a light at the end of the tunnel: a shift at the base nearest to me has recently come open, and I could work with someone both competent and not ... ... so .. ... odd. 😐 Time to contact scheduling...
  20. I agree with Marka's initial recommendation: it's time for a break. A month, two, six. Pick up something else you enjoy, or try something new. Go swim some laps or try a yoga class or something if you want an active endeavor. It doesn't sound like a win or two would change your thinking pattern - just get away entirely for a bit and come back with a fresh brain.
  21. The CCM RBZ runs pretty large, but again, cowlings.
  22. He just looks so peaceful, bundled up in his sleeping bag on the couch. Nice, even breathing. Nice, patent airway. *twitch*
  23. Sedating and intubating my partner is looking better and better every shift.
  24. 4 months of third-riding and still: no ventilator transfers. (That is, a patient on a ventilator, being transferred via ambulance.) In theory, we're supposed to have run one under supervision before being deployed on our own, but either none come up, or they're not actually on a ventilator, or we get cancelled off the call. Argh.
  25. The regular old artificial tears (not the saline ones - polyethylene glycol) might work over sudafed (or in addition to), as they're doing basically what rec-specs would do - provide a barrier against the cold air.
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