Comments on: Such Class! http://annleary.com/2010/04/such-class/ Author of The Good House Tue, 14 May 2013 01:07:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Ann http://annleary.com/2010/04/such-class/#comment-22249 Ann Sun, 25 Apr 2010 23:25:52 +0000 http://annleary.com/blog/?p=4550#comment-22249 Ann, am I mistaken or wasn’t there a story that involved playing Emergency and lowering your younger sibling by rope off a cliff?

]]> By: Ann Leary http://annleary.com/2010/04/such-class/#comment-22248 Ann Leary Sat, 24 Apr 2010 16:24:35 +0000 http://annleary.com/blog/?p=4550#comment-22248 Mark, great story. And Bernie, I am changing the wording on the blog right now.

]]> By: Kathie http://annleary.com/2010/04/such-class/#comment-22247 Kathie Sat, 24 Apr 2010 15:22:17 +0000 http://annleary.com/blog/?p=4550#comment-22247 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!!!!!

]]> By: Jan Kozlowski http://annleary.com/2010/04/such-class/#comment-22246 Jan Kozlowski Sat, 24 Apr 2010 14:29:48 +0000 http://annleary.com/blog/?p=4550#comment-22246 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.

]]> By: Jonah Gibson http://annleary.com/2010/04/such-class/#comment-22245 Jonah Gibson Sat, 24 Apr 2010 13:14:11 +0000 http://annleary.com/blog/?p=4550#comment-22245 ‘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.

]]> By: Neil http://annleary.com/2010/04/such-class/#comment-22244 Neil Fri, 23 Apr 2010 20:53:45 +0000 http://annleary.com/blog/?p=4550#comment-22244 Good for you Ann, can’t have too many EMTs in the family.

]]> By: Bernie http://annleary.com/2010/04/such-class/#comment-22243 Bernie Fri, 23 Apr 2010 19:59:09 +0000 http://annleary.com/blog/?p=4550#comment-22243 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! :-)

]]> By: Catherine http://annleary.com/2010/04/such-class/#comment-22242 Catherine Fri, 23 Apr 2010 16:10:42 +0000 http://annleary.com/blog/?p=4550#comment-22242 Okay, you lost me at vomiting feces. That never came up, so to speak, when I was a Candy Striper.

]]> By: Mark Thatcher http://annleary.com/2010/04/such-class/#comment-22241 Mark Thatcher Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:10:15 +0000 http://annleary.com/blog/?p=4550#comment-22241 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?

]]> By: KC http://annleary.com/2010/04/such-class/#comment-22240 KC Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:14:56 +0000 http://annleary.com/blog/?p=4550#comment-22240 Ann, break a leg today!

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