rosie_baby

So it's Tuesday & it was a hell of a weekend for me. After doing a 24 hour shift on Saturday I was hoping to get Sunday night off...no luck. It was one busy night on Saturday. We got our asses kicked, rammed & with no lubrication or a reach around. Everybody had an intent to kill themselves, literally. Ended up transporting 4 gun shot victims, one girl who tried to kill herself by slashing her wrists. The one guy who got shot was a young 18 y/o guy who got shot in the stomach. Well he wasnt doing well at all. Was pale as all hell & kept passing out. We had 3 iv bags running on this guy. He ended up throwing up on us in the back of the ambulance. He made it ok to the hospital but was sent to surgery right away. While we were in the hospital some other ambulance brought in a young girl who got into a real bad car accident. She ended up with an amputated leg & they couldn't find it. When another ambulance showed up with other victims of that accident they brought in the leg. That was real weird to see a guy walking around with the leg. I really doubt they were able to put it back on. It just seemed that night the gates of hell broke open. Shit hit the fan in the matter of a few hours.
Then the last call we had was this lady who had a real high fever of like 103. We had been busting our asses the whole night. So we had stopped for some coffee & were enjoying some of it when we arrived at the hospital to pick up the lady. As I was backing up into the parking spot some guy was in my way. Turned out that guy was the brother of our patient. He came up to the ambulance & said are you here to pick up so & so. I was like yeah we'll be in there in a few minutes. 4 minutes pass by & he comes back out & starts yelling at us, aren't you going to pick up my sister. The guy runs in & tells the doctor that we had been in there for like 15 minutes driking coffee & smoking. Short story the doctor came out bitched called the office to complain about us. We didnt get in trouble but when we went in there they didnt even have their shit ready. Needless to say this lady was like 350 lbs & while moving her around I fucked up my knee. Ended up being all swollen & I had to go to the doctor. Hopefully it's nothing serious. I have to give it a couple weeks & if it's not better I gotta go in for an MRI. I gotta wear a knee brace while at work for the next few weeks.
I have to say that after having such a busy night that last call with that guy was the icing on the cake.
Fucking bastard!!

You know after working at the company for almost 5 years I've never had anybody call & bitch about me. I mean I know how to do my job & I dont need no family member tell how I need to do things. Especially while the patient is already in a hospital. I really dont want to get on a soapbox about this. But it can be frusterating sometimes. Other than that my weekend was just peachy. Oh & I got some real good pain killer medication. I shall be sleeping like a baby tonight.