Husband, Father & Paramedic. Executive Issues Manager for @TheBreakdownAB He/Him/ThatF’nGuy
Feb 24, 2022 • 31 tweets • 5 min read
Quite a few years ago, I went on a call that I will never forget.
It was for a woman who had called 911 after taking a substantial amount of prescribed medication.
(Thread btw)
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My partner and I arrived at her apartment and she was sitting on the floor, naked but oddly calm.
Police had arrived just before us and had found her that way.
She was quite small, maybe 90 pounds at the most.
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Jan 1, 2022 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
My last tweet of 2021…
I’m a paramedic.
I spend time in a world where triage is something that we deal with every day.
I never would have imagined that I would be witnessing the triaging of an entire society in my lifetime though.
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Triage is a word that literally means to sort.
It exists because there are times in healthcare where the available resources are exceeded by the needs of a situation.
Most people can relate to the idea of a bus crash, where a single ambulance is first on scene.
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May 1, 2021 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
Last night when I got back to EMS headquarters at the end of my shift there was a group of 40-60 people, mostly young adults assembled in a parking lot/loading area directly across from where we return our vehicles.
No distancing, no masks.
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I sat in my truck stunned.
And angry.
This wasn’t a protest.
This was a boatload of people having a party in a parking lot.
