The small boy stares in awe, doing what little boys have done at firehouses for over a century. He’s had plenty of time to see whatever he wants. He’s looked inside all of the compartments and had all of the tools explained to him. He’s sat in the engine and pretended to drive [...]
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July 2 – we spent the weekend at the Maine Morgan Horse Show at the Deerfield (NH) fairgrounds. This is Scotty. He won all his classes at Granite State Morgan last week. (He won this week too, but didn’t have much competition.)
July 3 – [...] Today has been the final day of the Farewell Tour. My last shift on the Eastern Front has brought lots of handshakes and well-wishes. Who knows when I’ll be back. Every shift is somehow memorable, but this one has had compartment doors opening at inopportune times, a minor crash, and a [...] Tags: CMTSU, EMS, milestone, Project 365 | Category: EMS, Project 365 | View Comments |
 Print This PostI’m sure many of you have heard by now: my name is on The List. I haven’t been writing much lately. I just haven’t felt like it with this hanging over my head. Of course I cannot discuss the details of my situation here; with lawyers and government agencies involved, anything I say [...] I sit enjoying the warm solstice evening, reading a good book in the garage. The city has had no love for us today. A reported diabetic who only wanted a cup of coffee. A morbidly obese patient who called 911 looking for a wheelchair van. A reported overdose in a fast food bathroom. [...]
Back last fall I wrote a post about The Project, where a medic from SF and a medic from the UK visited each other’s systems to compare and learn. If you don’t follow my blogroll, you might not know the rest of the story. The Project has evolved into Chronicles of EMS, [...] A hot July day. The problem is it’s only May. The weather people call it unseasonably warm; I call it wonderful. This is New England, so it won’t last anyway. We leave the air-conditioned coolness of the crew quarters for the heat of the garage as the overhead door rumbles upward for what [...]
An elderly gentleman. He sits in his bent car, with no recollection of where he came from or where he was going. Or at least he won’t tell us. The collision was minor, but he has no idea why he suddenly made a left turn into a parked [...] Tags: CMTSU, EMS, nostalgia, Project 365 | Category: EMS, Project 365 | View Comments |
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