The Adventures of Miss A...

Monday, October 6, 2008

I'm off probation!

Here I am, less than 5 days after I get my number (608!), and I'm already off probation! I got a "surprise" training call today, run by Sam, the EMS coordinator, and the supervisor for today. I wasn't supposed to know about it, but the supervisor mentioned it to me, which kind of got me freaking out a little bit. I probably would have rathered just having it be a surprise, so I wouldn't have time to think about it.

It was a pretty fun call...he had gotten out the dummy and had raided the moulage suitcase, which is full of all sorts of neat injuries. The one he picked for me was a compound fracture of the upper arm, and a nice laceration on the back of the upper arm. So on top of that, he had attached some tubing and fake blood attached to a pump, so it was an "actively bleeding" patient. I had to control the bleeding, and I did it so well that he couldn't squeeze anymore blood out of the straw, which I thought was pretty awesome, if I do say so myself. After I was done, we discussed what went right and what went wrong, and then, as we were loading up all of our equipment in the van, Sam asked me how I thought I had done. I said I thought it had gone pretty well, and then he asked me if I wanted to count it as my get-off-probation-training-call! I said, "Sure." So he told me to go back to the EMS office and take the written-get-off-probation-exam, and I did. I called him within two minutes of when I finished, and he was already grading it! Crazy! Anyways, I passed, and he said that I had done really well. Yay for me!

I'm the first person this year to get off probation. I feel pretty darn special right now.

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

I have a new favorite number.

I've been with BYU EMS for a little more than two weeks, now, and tonight I got my radio call number! I've just been a 600 (aka brand-new EMT for BYU - there were 20 or so 600s), and now I have my own, unique number! Yay! It was the one I wanted too - 608. Anyways, I LOVE volunteering with BYU EMS. I've gotten to meet and hang out with some of the coolest people at BYU. I've even gotten to go on several (read: more than 10) calls. It's fun, and it's always an adrenaline rush when the tones go off on the radio telling us we're getting a call. It's so much fun.

Zoram is growing up! He's gotten bigger in just the week and a half that we've had him. He's --almost-- three months old now, but not quite. Earlier, when I was on my computer, he was content just to sit on my shoulder and curl up in my hair. Not sure why, but he definitely has an obsession with sleeping in mine and my roommates' hair. He's pretty sweet. We like to joke about how we have sleepovers with a boy. But it's just our kitten.

So here's my other big exciting news: I'm coming home for a mini-vacation the end of the month! YAY!

Anyways, I've just finished a crazy stressful week. Sean was here which was absolutely, positively WONDERFUL, but surprise, surprise, when he was here, I didn't get much studying done. He went home on Thursday afternoon, and then before Tuesday, I had to take two exams, write a small research paper, and finish my application for the nursing program. So I was pretty stressed out and probably not much fun to be around, but that's all done, which is awesome.

Life is good. I have a kitten curled up on my lap, sound asleep. He's nice and warm!