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July 1999 A brand new EMT walks trepidatiously into the ambulance yard. He's not completely lost; he's been a volunteer fireman for a decade. This medical stuff is all new though. He introduces himself to his assigned crew and mispronounces his preceptor's name. He has no idea what is in store for him. The sun is shining, the tunes… Continue reading The Spare (2021)
So the internet has decreed that today was Take Your Dog to Work Day. At first I thought it wouldn't work, then I reconsidered. Long stretches on the couch. Blasting across town, head out the open window, tongue lolling in the wind. Howling along with the siren. Yeah, Cricket might enjoy it too. 🙂 … Continue reading Take your dog to work
The helicopter crew turns the corner ahead of us in their blue jumpsuits. Their patient doesn't look too bad. She's awake, sitting up on their stretcher. I cannot see a heart monitor or any IVs, and I wonder what she did to warrant flying. We roll together into the Acute area of Big City Trauma… Continue reading Scenes from an ED
"Medic 9, umm, check your CAD notes." I flip the Toughbook screen open as my partner scowls from the driver's seat. Response to the clinic. Non emergency, but bring up your equipment as the staff is having trouble. Uhhhh. . . After a quick consultation with the dispatcher we decide this sounds like an emergency.… Continue reading Adventures in babysitting
The transfer truck. Jack of all trades. Cath lab heroes, the vent squad. We burn a full tank of Diesel every shift. We run emergencies across 5 cities, transfers to and from every hospital in two counties, and backup for the other division. We see the sickest patients, sometimes more than once; and we have… Continue reading Things I’ve learned on the transfer truck
FOSTER STR -013013 Polaroid SX70 / Impossible PX680 with ND filter Posting - 013113 Polaroid SX70 / Impossible PX 680 with ND filter
1/24/13 Grove St. II Polaroid Spectra / Impossible PZ Silver Shade 1/25/13 Ford Tough Polaroid Colorpack II / Fuji FP100c The more I shoot FP100c, the more I like it. I've run out, but I have more on the way. 🙂
1/15/13 Waiting Polaroid SX70 Model 2 / Impossible PX100 Color Protection There is a moment every morning when all four crews make shift change. Very rarely we all roll out and hit the streets at once, off to Save Lives and Make a Difference, or at least make a living. It's a wonderful sight… Continue reading Waiting – 011513
2/23/12 - Look out below! The chickens love to roost on the screen door in the coop. They will ride it back and forth when you walk in. 2/24/12 - Cold, rain, streetlights. Another dose of surreality. 2/25 - Still in the camera, on film! 2/26/12 - Medic 9 and our BLS backup.
Project 366 - 2/17/12 "ECNALUBMA" 2/18 is out at the photo lab for development
Notes from Mosquito Hill 