Last week I had my first stroke call. So I got this email today. The college has accepted my application for their Paramedicine course this coming fall.

The life of a geordie Paramedic. A moment frozen in time. I looked down at his small body, thinking that this time, I would make a difference. He was breathing 2 minutes ago. He was at school earlier that same day. Maybe its just respiratory arrest? I placed him onto the stretcher, carrying him out of the house in my arms rather than placing him on a carry chair. He was small for a teenager. 8220;Does he normally have any medical problems Mum? Sometime, ve.

All views, opinions, and statements are my own and do not reflect the views of my employer, my coworkers, or any other person. Identifying information has been altered, obfuscated, or just plain made up. Wednesday, May 20, 2015. He is half a dozen years older than me, sitting in a hospital bed, awake and alert, perhaps a little worried, but not acutely unwell. His heart is choking, dying. Unfortunately, the cath lab is busy. A complex case on the table that cannot be interrupted.

Tuesday, 23 November 2010. We started out the same, I took one path and she took the other. When I looked at Gemma, and when I talked to her, I saw myself. I saw what I would have became. Monday, 30 November 2009.