many of you followed my journey from going back to EMS from being a web designer in 2015. As many of you know that journey got side tracked with the return of my pelvic cancer in 2016. A little update and where I am going from here. so on June 27th 2016 i went in for Read More…
Author: Chris
about 60 days
ok so its been 6 days since my doctor so kindly dropped a little bombshell into my life. ugh. I can do this, I know I can, I am trying to co-ordinate a trip to Mayo for lord knows what, but the fact remains I am dealing with some pretty big stuff right now. the Read More…
well monkey trumpets
well here we go again.. this time its bigger, not badder, its mostly all benign cartilage tumor.. but it still requires them to cut out a chunk of my pelvis and try to rebuild with someone elses body parts. sigh. long road ahead of me and I’m still kinda messed up but here we go Read More…
its my Cancer and I will laugh if I want to
So a couple weeks ago I was told my cancer may have returned, well it has, its more to the front of my hip now, all we know is that something with cancerous cells is growing, and has been growing for awhile. I get to back in in April for scans and a discussion of Read More…
5 months in
I started here at the metro service in May, to say that I am still happy to be here is an understatement. I am rapidly getting to the end of my probationary period here, and it feels like I haven’t really been on probation at all. yes there is a lot to learn, yes its Read More…
The Tribe
i have been working downtown for two months now, I have learned a great deal. It’s no secret that we deal with a large number of homeless people, more often than not we get called to wake them up when they have fallen asleep in various unapproved places. The calls usually end up with the Read More…
The continuing adventures.
well today marked the last day of consecutive classroom training for my new services orientation. Tomorrow we will be driving around the service area, and then Sunday I start my shift work. This whole week has been all about personal responsibility, which in and of itself was pretty good. the upcoming weeks will be full Read More…
Advice on being an old medic in a new world
So here I am, a week into my new service, and already I’m over thinking. Advice for those seasoned EMS professionals on starting brand new at a service. 1. Remember no one knows you here, you may have friends who have shared adventures with you, but by and large you are just another probie, and Read More…
one week down
its been a long week… a full week of orientation and an even fuller one next week. The thing about being a new medic when your already and old one is, remembering you are a new medic again, just this time without all the fear of what will happen when your patient dies. The new Read More…
Today I laughed again
Its a terrible thing to say, its worse to actually mean it. Today I laughed, a lot, I told jokes, was teased, and schemed, and it was OK. Today my peers once again re-enforced in me that I am where I need to be. My wife asked me tonight if everything was better, and I Read More…