10 Reasons to Date an Paramedic or EMT
..10) We are used to staying up all night.
..09) we are great with multiple partners.
..08) We are experts in Mouth to Mouth.
..07) we are the quickest in rapid clothing removal.
..06) We arrive with our own multi-positional bed.
..05) We'd shock the socks off you.
..04) We always come when we are called.
..03) We are prepared for any rhythm.
..02) We are already familiar with Latex.
..01) We are available Anytime, Anywhere, Anyway you need us!!
Tribute to EMS, Firefighters, and Law Enforcement
I wish you could comprehend a wife's horror at 3 in the morning as I check her husband of 40 years for a pulse and find none. I start CPR anyway, hoping to bring him back, knowing intuitively it is too late, but wanting his wife and family to know everything possible was done to save his life.
I wish you could read my mind as I respond to an EMS call, "What is wrong with the patient? Is it minor or life-threatening? Is the caller really in distress or is he waiting for us with a 2X4 or a gun?"
I wish you could be in the emergency room as a doctor pronounces dead the beautiful five-year old girl that I have been trying to save during the past 25 minutes; who will never go on her first date or say the words, "I love you, Mommy" again.
I wish you could know the frustration I feel in the cab of the engine, squad car, or ambulance, the driver with his foot pressing down hard on the pedal, my arm tugging again and again at the air horn chain, as you fail to yield the right-of-way at an intersection or in traffic. When YOU need us, however, your first comment upon our arrival will be, "It took you forever to get here!"
I wish you could know my thoughts as I help extricate a girl of teenage years from the remains of her automobile. What if this was my sister, my girlfriend, my wife, my daughter, or a close friend? What were her parents reaction going to be when they opened the door to find a police officer with hat in hand?
I wish you could know how it feels to walk in the back door and greet my parents, and family, and not having the heart to tell them that I nearly did not come back from the last call.
I wish you could know how it feels dispatching officers, EMT's, and fire fighters out on a call and when we call for them, our hearts drop because no one answers back; or to hear a bone chilling 911 call of a child or wife needing assistance.
I wish you could feel the hurt as people verbally, and sometimes physically, abuse us or belittle what I do, or as they express their attitudes of "It will never happen to me".
I wish you could realize the physical, emotional, and mental drain or missed meals, lost sleep, and forgone social activities, in addition to all the tragedy my eyes have seen.
I wish you could know the brotherhood and self-satisfaction of helping save a life, or being able to be there in time of crisis, or creating order from total chaos. I wish you could understand what it feels like to have a little boy tugging at you arm and asking - "Is Mommy OK?" and not even being able to look in his eyes without tears from your own and not knowing what to say.
Or to have to hold back a longtime friend who watches his buddy having rescue breathing done on him as they take him away in the ambulance. You knew all along that he did not have his seat belt on. A sensation that I have become all too familiar with.
Unless you have lived with this kind of life, you will never truly understand or appreciate who I am, who we are, or what our jobs really mean to us... I wish you could.
- Author Unknown -
