No, I’m, not taking Chinese or Italian or Art History or Zumba or any of the other fascinating ideas you all had regarding the class I’m enrolled in.
I’m taking an EMT training class.
Somebody guessed it, but although I have reviewed the comments twice now, I can’t figure out who it was. You see, I have a very hard time reading and reviewing information. I always thought that I was quite good at the processing of information, but, now that I’m taking a course, I have learned that any aptitude I might have once had in this regard has now almost completely deteriorated and if there were a remedial or special-needs EMT course offered, I would be in that class. Instead, I have to be in the class with all the recent college grads, registered nurses, firefighters and other smart-asses who take notes while flipping through the text and ask clever questions regarding aortas and bile ducts and head trauma. I have such a miniscule understanding of the human body that my participation in class is limited to fitful snorts and giggles whenever there is any reference made to the parts of the anatomy that involve the male reproductive system. Well, that’s not entirely true. Elimination always makes me choke and nearly hyperventilate with insufficiently suppressed mirth and the only thing that helps me gain composure is glancing at the 24-year-old firefighter next to me who is frowning and shaking his head.
Why am I taking an EMT class? I have wanted to take the course for years – it’s one of my longtime big plans. I was unable to take it until now because the classes are from 7-10 in the evenings and on Saturdays and I needed to make dinner for the kids and help them with homework, etc. But now the kids drive and cook and have homework that’s too hard for me to help with, so I can finally work on becoming an EMT.
I’ve wanted to be an EMT or a paramedic ever since I watched my first episode of Emergency! at around age ten. My brother and I looked forward to this show all week and would then act out rescues stunts on the cliffs near our home near Lake Michigan. I was always Johnny Gage. Oh how I LOVED this show. Rampart 51! Rampart 51!
Anyway, I will keep you informed as to my progress. It’s an intensive course and if I’m lucky and pass the certification test, I could be a certified EMT by early summer. Very exciting. Our town, like many CT towns, has no paid firefighters or EMTS. These professional services are all provided by volunteers.
Now I must pick out an outfit to wear on Better Connecticut tomorrow. Can I wear the striped skirt again? Please?
Yes, Ann, go ahead and wear the stripe skirt again, it’s smashing!
Hey, good luck on the EMT course, I think you’d do well in that endeavor.
I liked Emergency tv show a lot too, always thought I wanted to be in medicine but after I got there, not so much. Have to say I quit.
It was Kristin who guessed an EMT course.
Good luck on tomorrow’s show and with the classes.
It is OK to wear the skirt again and I would love it if you could send me the jacket when you are tried of it. May I be so bold to ask what else is on your bucket list? I honestly believe I would faint if on a trama scene. Good for you and best of luck.
Ann, Good for you,I’m glad to hear about the EMT course. Good for you.
Hey, wait a minute, did you cut class to go traising around NYC and the film festival. Does the teacher know about the blog, could be a problem.
that would be traipsing.
Sorry about the spell error, that would be traipsing.
Wow! I have missed a lot! Ann, very cool on the EMT thing. I think it would be exciting to start something new. Learning is amazing and it keeps us young. Well, I think it does. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
As for me, I feel like I am being worn down by my family and I am considering letting them get a dog. Leaning towards a Schnoodle. We need to get a hypoallergenic dog so this purchase doesn’t kill off half the family. There is a breeder about 2 hours away in Canandaigua NY. I know everyone on here is huge on rescuing dogs. What are the thoughts on getting a hypoallergenic dog from a rescue? I don’t think I can have a mutt.
I have absolutely no experience with this. I grew up with a Doberman that was from a breeder. My parents took care of that purchase.
Help!
Ann, that’s great! An EMT course I imagine is pretty intense. I don’t know if I could do it. For whatever reason, I’m more interested in animal emergency work than people. Bizarre.
I also checked out the Better CT website and maybe those of us who don’t have CT television can catch a clip afterward on there. I did see one of your discussion topics, I think it’ll be a great show! (Link here: http://www.wfsb.com/betterct/index.html)
At least I know now if I go riding on trail in your town and Zeus decides to hurl me overboard, I can just say, “Don’t worry – Ann’s coming. She knows what she’s doing. Just go get my horse before he ends up in Rhode Island.”
Sorry, for whatever reason the hyperlink included my closing parenthesis.
Link for Better CT’s website is here:
http://www.wfsb.com/betterct/index.html
Thanks Annie. Yes, that’s right, it was Kristin.
Candy, we had no class on Tuesday night, but you’re right about the blog, I’ll have to be careful and limit traipsing.
Christine, I’m sure you’ll get a lot of responses regarding your wonderful plans. We have had great success over the years with dogs we’ve rescued. Usually terriers and poodles don’t shed. Our Holly, for example, doesn’t shed at all and she was a rescue. Our Labradoodle, not a rescue (hanging head in shame), does shed, though Labradoodles are supposed to be nonshedding. You could do a search on Petfinder for schnauzer, poodle or terrier and see what you find. Also, poodle-mixes are much easier to train and better first-time family dogs than schnauzers or terriers in my opinion.
Ann, that is so cool! I would have never guessed that.
How many times do you think you’ll hear a comment or joke with the words “rescue me” in it now?
Christine, check this link out:
http://www.akc.org/about/faq_allergies.cfm
We also need an allergy friendly dog, but you have to know that there’s no such thing as a truly hypo-allergenic dog – only dogs that tend to be better for people with allergies.
I’m going to suggest you do what we’re going to do when we get a dog – go to a breeder of the dog you’re interested in, and spend a few hours there – see how the allergic family members react when petting, playing, etc with the puppies. We’d like to get a rescue too, but we do think our first dog will be a breeder dog – because of Matt’s allergies. The reason being, if (God forbid) there’s an issue with his allergies, we can bring the dog back to the breeder and they’ll rehome it to a great home – I don’t know if all rescues operate that way (though many do). Once we know Matt is ok with a certain breed, our second dog (because I can’t have just one) will be a rescue.
Sorry for the long-winded reply – but being a dog person with no allergies, having to adapt to a husband with allergies has been an exercise.
Ann, I commend you for taking the EMT course. I think that’s wonderful. Good for you, Ann.
On the subject of tomorrow’s wardrobe, I think you should absolutely wear the same skirt. Recycle! Tomorrow will be one day after Earth Day.
Ann wear the skirt again it is delish! as for the EMT!! you are way too awesome for words, good for you! You KNOW I live in CT and you will do just about anything to try to give me the kiss of life won’t ya! hehehe
Bev, LOL!
Ann, that’s so cool you’re going to be an EMT! It’s even cooler you watched and acted out the scenes from Emergency! on the shores of Lake Michigan. My sister was obsessed with the show–well, really, just John Gage–and made me watch it with her every week. And we, too, would then act out that weeks emergencies on the shores of Lake Michigan (grew up in Kenosha, WI). She was inconsolable when the show went off the air.
wow – so impressed, ann! i really admire EMTs, especially the volunteers. i know i couldn’t do it ….. would get too emotional.
christine, i’ve heard many great things on breed specific rescue. purebreds, like mutts, end up there for many reasons and, i do think some of them (most?) will accept a dog back if there are allergy problems. also, they typically let you do a trial run to see how it goes. good luck and keep us posted.
Thank you, Ann—mystery solved! Good for you—I am actually writing an exam today—and I agree with Christine (Walker) about the benefits of learning. Also, if I were you, I would WEAR THE SKIRT! (It looks fabulous on you!) Have a great show!
P.S. Hi Rose—May I ask how the job hunt is going?
Ann, I see a Baywatch episode in your future.
Good for you, Ann! I’m not good with the blood and guts part, so I don’t ever think I could be an EMT, so you are to be commended. I find the older I get, the harder it is to study, but to also memorize anything! I only have five more classes to go before I get my degree, so I hope what little memory I have left holds out until I’m done!
Ann, congratulations on your new endeavors! I think what you are doing is so awesome, and I really admire you.
Ann,
Wear the skirt, just do the sit-down test first. There’s a big difference between standing in a short skirt, and having to sit for an hour with TV cameras pointed at you, ya know what I mean?
Also, so proud of you for being willing to give your time and the big effort to get certified.
It was me, me, me, Kristin, that guessed the right class. I have both a niece and a nephew who are EMT’s by way of firefighting. One is a volunteer in Port Townsend. Good for you. It can be tough stuff. I remember taking all my anatomy classes for Sports Medicine with the Nursing school. Oops, different take on anatomy than nurses. lol. My little ‘hood’ is having their disaster response day this weekend. We live on a deadend street on the bluff with 37 houses, always the last to get help from the city. So we have a organization with everybody playing a key role. No doctors, but plenty of dentists and nurses and attns. So in the event of the big earthquake, we will all have good teeth, our meds administered and be able to sue the pants off the city for ignoring us. Just kidding.
Just kidding about suing the city. Everything else is true. I want good teeth and lots of calming meds if my house pancakes.
Thanks KC! I checked out the link. 4 out of 5 of us are allergy sufferers so this is a tough issue. I was reading about the Schnoodles–seems like if you combine 2 hypoallergenic dogs you get an even better situation. I am doing plenty of research. I am hoping to wait until after Thanksgiving since we are going on a week long vacation then and don’t want to have to deal with the “who’s going to watch the dog?” situation so soon. I am also checking out petfinder as per Ann’s suggestion. Holly would have been perfect for us it seems. But, I am guessing The Leary’s would not part with her:)
Cynthia has a good point about the sit down test and short skirts. With the black hose you should be okay (I have very pale legs and and one of the last remaining women on earth to wear nylons with skirts — always. I also wear control top hose under my Nudie suit pants, to help smooth my tummy bulge and trim my waist). Anyways, it is fine to wear a favorite piece of clothing as much as you want, but strive for appropriateness in every situation. Be a lady!
With that out of the way, so great that Ann is becoming an EMT! My nephew is an EMT/Firefighter/Nurse and I am so proud of him. I personally can’t stand the sight of blood, and am useless in an emergency. I’m kind of like Butterfly McQueen in “Gone With the Wind” — “I don’t know nothin’ about birthin’ no babies!”
Christine don’t pull an Obama and buy from a breeder with the old “I need a hypoallergenic dog” excuse. Be patient and keeping checking out rescues. I’m sure you’ll find the perfect match.
I’ve never seen RM, and I only sorta kinda know who Denis Leary is . . . normally, I wouldn’t buy a ticket for his comedy tour, but I am a sucker for charity — problem is, I can’t seem to figure out how to purchase a ticket (or check out the price) from this page. Maybe I’m just lame, but if someone knows how to navigate this clue me in.
http://www.ticketsforcharity.com/denis-leary/2010/rescue-me-comedy-tour-2-tickets.asp
Good for you, Ann! (training)
It is not for the meek (the actual work). I got sick once after practicing mouth to mouth, EVEN though we used a shield, as the patient had a bug. If you have to do the chest pumping, it IS messy. Ribs break.. I better stop.
Oh, most people cannot do that for a living for long. Good to know, though. And I know that is what you are doing it for, to know. The fun part is that if you are good at it, you can recognize diseases, conditions, complications and so on and so forth, and you learn to look at bodily fluids (all) as specimens, rather than disgusting stuff.
Better leave you alone now..
Mary Lynn, when you get to that page ,did you click on view seats and then go on from there as directed?
Mary Lynn, when you get to the page where you view seats there is a place to e-mail or call for single ticket prices. Move down the page a bit, it’s in small letters.
You are lucky he’s coming to Vegas, good chance to get to know Denis and Lenny and Adam, funny guys!
Thanks Annie — you have to view all music events, then scroll until you find the artist/venue/date and view seats — gotcha. $129.50 is a little out of my price range, but maybe my Fortune Cookie will come true, and bring me luck — you never know.
Lupe, Interesting about the EMT work, I have such admiration for folks who can do this. Speaking of fluids, and my aversion to breeding, I got this email today –
“Unbelievable selection of semen lots to be offered at Diamond S Sale”
I don’t think anyone will ever start a bucking bull rescue — if they don’t buck, they’re chuck!
Ann, I’m thinking you should channel a sort of Lauren Hutton, Lauren Bacall, — with a little Katherine Hepburn thrown in — look for tomorrow. I think I just gave Ralph Lauren a plug. Something slightly tailored, but easy, with a light, bright splash of color to celebrate Spring. I saw a great scarf in the window of Hermes a couple of weeks ago. I can’t find it on their website, but this one is nice – http://usa.hermes.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=10202&catalogId=10052&langId=-1&categoryId=116551&leftCategoryId=10761&topCategoryId=127524&parentCategoryId=127539&productId=55081&nbItem=0
Paired with linen trousers, the right silk blouse and a snaffle bit belt — it might be a little too “Hampton Polo Charity Event Luncheon-ish — but I’d wear it (with dark, or black pants, I’m too short to wear light colors on my legs — but you can pull any color off). ‘Tis the season for Steeplechases, races, and such.
I do like what you wore to the Tribeca Film Festival, it had a sort of urban chic-ness to it.
Good for you Ann. I think its great. These people really do handle “emergent” situations. I know quite a few and they are terribly riveted when it comes to blood and guts. They love it. If you don’t have one – you might have to develop a tough skin. Challenging course I’m sure but again……I think its wonderful your taking it on. You can do it.
Ann, I sent you an e-mail today with another e-mail address I need opened to the blog, still comes up blocked, please let me know if you rec’d. thanks.
The woman I leased Foggy from was a San Francisco General Hospital Trauma Surgeon, and she never talked about her job to me . . . I couldn’t have handled it. I did help her once doctor her other horse — my job was to keep the rather skittish mare calm, and I was happy that I succeeded so that she could work on her wound. That’s about all I can do is hold a head or a hand.
I can’t even watch TV shows that involve trauma, Emergency rooms or surgeries. I did enjoy SNL’s “Appalachian Emergency Room” though.
I was reminded of the amazing first responders and the folks in the neighborhood who helped rescue people from the Cypress Structure after the Loma Prieta Quake. Earthquakes mean aftershocks, and the fact that these ordinary people crawled in that space to help others when they themselves could have become victims just astounds me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tv98pgqUshc
That’s so awesome that you are taking EMT training. Did you know that Bobby Sherman wound up being an EMT? You are probably a little young to have had posters of him up in your pre-teen bedroom like I did. I too was a big fan of Emergency growing up.
Since people are yakking about the Comedy Tour – any chance you can convince them to come to Seattle?
I invite everyone who does not have the RM Comedy Tour coming to their town to come to Las Vegas, and see it here! Ann, you could come to make sure the boys in the band stay out of the strip clubs (yes, there is one right across the street from the Hard Rock.) I promise I won’t write snarky poems about all you Vegas visitors — well, I can’t promise, but I’ll do my best to resist.
I should be working for the Convention and Visitors’ Bureau.
Hey, check out this hilarious episode of “Rain Delay Improv Theatre” — who knew these jocks had so much acting ability?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3u8DF2CAcs&feature=player_embedded
Ann, kudos to you for taking this EMT training. I really admire you for doing it. And you’ll be able to check something off of your list!
Good luck tomorrow with your TV gig. I can’t wait to see it (through some link or another).
I don’t know if any of you are fans of the Housewives of NY, but I must, embarrassingly, confess to attending a book signing tonight, held by none other than Jill Zarin, her mother, Gloria, and her sister, Lisa. I have to say, they are a wonderful group of ladies – very funny, down to earth, and very, very chatty. I adore Gloria! She is a pistol, that one.
I now have my very own signed copy of Secrets of a Jewish Mother. I am not Jewish, or a mother, but I just had to have it.
Hey, everybody. If you look at the “Recent Comments” section of this blog, you’ll see an “Elizabeth Peterson” on “Witch Dung.” If you click on the link, it takes you to a Salem witch house. How’d that get on here? Now I’m scared!
Cool Aislinn — I think Jill’s mom is a peach! She is such a sweet lady (from the little that I’ve seen, anyways). I have a new way to deal with the Housewives, since it was bothering me so.
I just imagine them saying what Jamie Nudie and I say whenever we are misunderstood, or inappropriate, or embarassing, or overbearing, or drunk, or whatever — this my friends will get you through any dicey situation — just walk away, throw a hand up in the air and say “F*ck ‘em if they can’t take a joke!”
Works like a charm.
Don’t be frightened Aislinn. Elizabeth Peterson recently commented on an old post of Ann’s entitled “Witch Dung” and offered help in researching a project Ann was working on.
And speaking of “Witch Dung”, if you ever attend a graduation at UC Berkeley held at the Greek Theatre, be sure to position the grad in front of the r in Greek and take a picture — very funny.
Okay, I’m not really frightened…but I do scare easily. No witchy stuff for me, thank you very much. I once played with a Ouija board, and my mother almost had me exorcised. She doused a bottle of holy water over my head and recited the Hail Mary. She had gallons of the stuff.
See, now the witch has been exorcized from the recent comments — You know in the South being a Catholic is pretty much viewed as akin to practicing witchcraft. They really don’t go for all the virgin worship, blood and wine, incense and candles, and weird rituals.
I say if you like to smoke, drink, and gamble — Catholicism is the religion for you! The Church of Christ-ers are mortified by such carrying on.
http://picasaweb.google.com/isaiasymiriam/DentelleDeMirecourt?feat=email#
THIS IS what I want to go to Andalucia and learn…. sometime. SOON.
And did well on the week exams… darn it, it was back to back too. I like the English classes, and I love the science ones. IT is like I WANT more questions to answer. Gone bersek here as you can see.
I cannot afford DL’s ticket either.. so I shall wait for the DVD. Also I do not know where I will be on the 6th of June, when the show is in LA. Hopefully I would be two weeks into:
getting a decent tan
Two weeks of weight exercises
Two weeks of eating decent and counting cals
taking time to watch movies
taking time to read any book I want
watching the tube, or rather, changing the channels if I think the stuff sucks.
Writting….
two weeks with time to do my hair
two weeks with NO PUBLIC transportation
two weeks into putting lotions on dry skin
Is that a plan or is that a plan!
Ann
I loved Emergency too as a teen. John Cage is a cutie but what a name Randolph Mantooth or something like that. Did you read Tiger Beat? Best wishes on the show tomorrow can’t wait to see you.
How long are you in LA for Lupe (assuming you are still here). Any other blog readers in the LA area? If so I have an interesting offer for you.
Kathy C
Kathy, I am in Anaheim. Not exactly LA, but close.
Oh Aislinn, you’re cracking me up. Scared of witch dung! I would have scared the bejesus out of you at slumber parties.
Lupe, I actually am sort of fascinated by guts and blood doesn’t bother me but what you said about cracking people’s ribs while giving CPR does. I really don’t want to crack anyone’s anything. I don’t think I’m squeamish, but was mildly alarmed to learn, last night, that a person can actually vomit feces. Yup, that’s right. It’s in the chapter on digestion/blockages.
Denis, who is pretty squeamish keeps thumbing through my text book and saying, “Here you go, how about impaled object in the eye? What’s the protocol?” Then he hands me the book and it’s open to a man who has a spear sticking out of his bloody eye. I actually am fascinated by pictures like this and will study it carefully, which really seems to bother Denis.
Mary Lynn, thanks for the fashion tips. I’m wearing a rather Hepburne-y pair of trousers and a button down shirt. This was after I tried on every thing I own and realized that I own three outfits that are sort of nice and one outfit that I love (striped skirt/leather jacket, but really can’t wear it to one more thing.
It looks like tickets to RM Comedy Tour can be had as cheaply as $57.50 for standing room tickets in Vegas.
If anyone is thinking of seeing Denis in Sin City, rooms at the Hard Rock are around $300 for a Saturday night, but you can stay at Terrible’s down the block for around $70. I love Terrible’s. The best $9.99 16 oz New York Steak (with potatoes, veggies, and a beer – I take home the leftovers and eat steak for days) in town. Oh, two entrees gets a free bottle of Terrible Wine with a coupon — you can’t beat that.
I’m fighting off a terrible cold, and just made Hot and Sour soup — so good, and good for you. Here is the basic recipe.
Low sodium chicken stock
garlic flavored rice wine vinegar
garlic hot sauce
mushrooms
onions
bamboo shoots
chicken (in a can is fine)
1 egg
x-tra firm tofu
chinese black cloud mushrooms
dried seaweed
So the first 8 ingredients I get at the 99 cent store. The tofu, cloud mushrooms, and tofu I buy at the Korean store (any asian store will have them).
So you soak the cloud mushrooms and seaweed in water. Just a few mushrooms and about a teaspoon of seaweed is enough for one batch of soup.
Then you heat the chicken stock and vinegar in about a 2 to 1 ratio, or to taste (sour). A couple of drops of hot sauce to taste (hot). The rest of the ingredients are to taste really. Tonight I left out the chicken, the egg, and the bamboo shoots and I didn’t miss them one bit.
You really can’t screw it up. It may not be the same every time you make it, but it will be delicious.
Oh, and a fortune cookie for dessert. Thanks for my facebook fortune cookie Lupe, I’ve been getting some good ones.
“Your Happiness is before you, not behind you. Cherish It.”
So sweet . . . I will!
Ann, Shouldn’t you be in bed getting your beauty rest (oh, I forgot you don’t need any) for your big day?
Your outfit sounds great, I think it was Christine who cautioned against a short skirt when being filmed sitting . . . in our collection we have a picture of Marilyn Monroe (sans panties) posing for a photo shoot. You can see her you know what clear as day (she really did hate wearing underwear) . . . Britney Spears is just a copycat. So anyway, unless you want some crazy TMZ publicity, better safe than sorry.
I did get to an event at the Autry museum in a short skirt, and there was a giant longhorn steer there that you could sit on (it had a saddle) and have your picture taken. I love longhorns, I was so excited! So I climbed up, but in my skirt, I had to sort of do it sidesaddle. . . should have worn pants that night.
Denis will be glad you know how to handle objects stuck in eye balls if it ever happens to him!
I actually just wrote a long post (what’s new?) with info on RM in Vegas, and a great recipe for hot and sour soup (trying to treat my cold) and then lost it when I hit “Post”. Oh well.
Lupe, learning lacemaking, especially in Espana would be wonderful.
Oh Ann, if you’ve got a great funky and/or vintage necklace, brooch, earrings, scarf, or bracelet — add that for interest if you think your outfit is a little sedate.
Just don’t over do it — remember what Coco Chanel said. “Always take off one thing (accessory, non important clothing item) before you leave the house”.
I’ve often run into the trap where I think an outfit should work, but in reality it doesn’t. Your imagination can play tricks on you, but the mirror doesn’t lie.
Mary Lynn, To order tickets,, you click on the City you want to see the show in,, where it says view seats,, then you click on the next link which takes you to a series of numbers that you enter in the box. Then it will show you your seating area, like today in Chicago it’s Row AA.. so you click purchase seats and then it takes you to another link to purchase. My husband and I are going to the June show in Chicago, – good luck! Happy ordering.
Ann, Once you are a certified EMT I think it would be fitting if you were on RM as part of the ambulance crew.. How cool would that be??? Rampart 62!!!!
Ann, break a leg today!
Hi Ann,
Bev told me about your latest escapade. Very admirable! I a Nationally Registered EMT twice when I was in the Navy. The first time was in 1985. I was a Hospital Corpsman stationed at San Diego Naval Training Center. We covered the boot camp there and the training schools for when the sailors graduated boot camp. We ran ambulances out of an Emergency room acute care area. We all had to be EMT-A certified. We were of that generation that grew up on the ‘Emergency’TV show ourselves and Johhny Gage was a name we used to bust somebody’s balls. Kind of like the Probie thing on Rescue me. To be a Johnny Gage was an impossibly high standard no one could reach just like being a ‘John Wayne’ for a Marine. Only the real diggit’s and asskissers wanted to aspire to it. It was a term used as in, ‘Who the F$#k do you think you are Johnny F*&^ng Gage?!’
I remember the first real ambulance call I went on we went to a barracks because a student had collapsed and was breathing irradicaly. We went in and his skin was red, he was curled up in a fetal position with hands all claw’ed up like. Shallow quick breaths and almost catatonioc state. I didnt know what the hell was wrong with him,. I did my primary checks and secondary inspection and was starting to panic myself as the patients condition was getting worse. I must have looked at my experienced driver with real fear in my eyes because he looked back at me, smiled, shook his head and reached into the big medic box we had and pulled out a brown paper lunch bag. He put it over the kids mouth and held it there and the kid was fine in about 5 minutes. Damn, hyperventilation! I was certainly no Johnny Gage.
The second time I went to EMT school was about ten years later. My quals had lapsed and I was then a Sonar Technician on a submarine. Every Sub has to have so many EMTs to help out the Doc in an emergency so I got to go to a nice little community college for a couple weeks vacation off the boat. Grand!
BTW whats the primary sympton of a male broken hip?
Okay, you lost me at vomiting feces. That never came up, so to speak, when I was a Candy Striper.
Ann…. You’ll still be a PROFESSIONAL EMT, just not a paid one here in town…. not only Bobby Sherman, but David Lee Roth became an EMT in NYC as well…
Study hard and pass the program, we’ll collaborate on the “EMS, Love, & War in a Small Town”..
your chief!
Good for you Ann, can’t have too many EMTs in the family.
‘insufficiently suppressed mirth’
Already peppering your speech with arcane medical terms, I see. Funny bit. Good luck with the course. My experience with EMTs has been that they become desensitized to the gross and morbid stuff that makes the rest of us queasy. Being a mother you probably already have a leg up on this.
Ann, very cool that you are taking the EMT-A class. I got my EMT-A in 1985 and my EMT-I in 1986. The classes were definitely intense, but for me the hardest part was the practical part of the state exam. Get as much hands on practice as you can and don’t worry, if you can handle sitting with Scot Haney for an hour and not dissolving into a puddle of laughter, you’ll do just fine on the exams. And, if your instructor is Daniel Tauber, or someone taught by him, the class will be much harder than the testing and you’ll pass with flying colors.
Good Luck on getting your EMT….I too went thru the EMT 1 course and passed both the State of Alaska and National Registry tests….
I also had to take the Firefighter 1 course, had to have both EMT/Firefighter Certs to be on call with our Fire Dept….
I am now a Nurse and think that my faithful yrs of watching Emergency, Ben Casey, Medical Center contributed to my career, although I did want to be a Flight Attendant but being only 4’10″ didn’t meet up to the height requirement they had at that time!!!!!
Mark, great story. And Bernie, I am changing the wording on the blog right now.
Ann, am I mistaken or wasn’t there a story that involved playing Emergency and lowering your younger sibling by rope off a cliff?