But all of this yard work is going to kill me!
It’s been warming up, finally. But with the warmer weather and all of the snow melt comes spring clean-up, raking, raking and more raking. Of course mud season presents those of us in Fire and EMS unique challenges. Every Spring it never fails- a rookie buries a piece of apparatus in the deep mud on the shoulder of a road. Pulling a twenty-five ton vehicle out of deep mud is no small task.
Recently I’ve been riding on the medic truck. Pro- most of the calls we respond to are serious, not like the most common call where people call 911 because they have a cold. Con- unless we get a third provider I’m downgraded to ambulance driver while the medic I’m working with techs in the back.
We’ve had a quite a few car accidents lately, a handful of MI’s (Myocardial Infarction’s, or heart attacks) and several attempted suicides, as well as two structure fires and a chimney fire. I’m up to my eyeballs in paperwork.
But I’m smiling because warmer weather is here! It’s only been in the 40’s the last couple of days but tomorrow it’s supposed to hit 65!