White’s 10 inch logger boots. Good for wildland fire and wilderness search and rescue.
100%. I made a mental note to avoid mentioning my White’s when I talked to the podiatrist.
We are allowed to wear shorts from May-October, but I stopped doing that once I started medic school. I usually balance the patient’s arm on my leg when starting IVs, and the thought of their blood on my leg gives me the ick.
You guys don’t wear shorts in the summer?
Part of being a middle-aged first responder is getting excited for things such as new orthotic inserts for my duty shoes.
Had to improvise a trainer so the EMT candidates could practice drawing and then administering IM epinephrine.
6” gauze stuffed into a Santa hat + Coban
Getting some “Allegheny Portage Railroad” vibes today
www.nps.gov/alpo/learn/h...
Almost 80 degrees and my first after work bike ride of year. Crazy to think I was skiing two weeks ago.
Walked the kids home from school last night, and my 7 year old did a pretty good job identifying pine, fir, cedar, and spruce trees in the neighborhood.
These kids are the best.
Btw, I gotta finish the Hornblower series first. For a farmboy with no sea experience, these books are great.
Thank you! I’ll add this to my list.
I read the entire series as a reward for finishing paramedic school at night while working a full time job. I read each on the subway while commuting back and forth to work. Sold the set hoping someone else would enjoy the journey.
My funky smelling job shirt sitting on the ambo seat.
Pulled 80 hours of EMS time in the seven days between the various event medicine jobs and my overnight at the firehouse. Not a bad way to spend furlough week #3.
Patches I was given for working the HYROX race in Washington, DC
Spent a long weekend working as the paramedic at the HYROX regional championship in DC. I love working event medicine b/c I get to see passionate people doing what they love, and it feels great to be there when folks need help.
#HYROX #Paramedic #MedSky
Different day, same plan. Gotta stick with what works.
Room-temperature off-brand canned spaghetti.
Midway through my first of two consecutive 18 hour shifts in a medical tent.
I brought food, but I eat it private so I don’t scare people.
Update: I posted this exact picture in a Patrick O’Brian fan FB group, and it’s the closet thing to going viral I’ve ever experienced.
Me on the firehouse treadmill. Max incline with a weight vest
Tones dropped five minutes after I took this selfie, and I was bummed that I wouldn’t get to complete the lifting portion of my workout.
Aaannnddd….then we had to carry an adult patient from his second floor bedroom to the cot outside with the Reeves Stretcher, so it all worked out in the end.
I’m from Iowa. Maj. O’Brien was raised on a farm not far from mine in another town, and his aunt Mary was one of my sixth-grade teachers. She posted this tribute to him this morning
#Iowa
For diehard Aubrey/Maturin and Hornblower fans out there: Two captured French naval cannons are posted on FB Marketplace in Alexandria, VA
Also, kudos to the algorithm for knowing exactly what I like.
#BookSky
Finished Kevin Fedarko’s “A Walk in the Park” about his trek through the Grand Canyon and caught this comment at the end about how we long for trails b/c they promise to deliver us to where we need to be. As a hiker/backpacker and former USFS trail dog, I understand this.
#backpacking #BookSky
They served in a reserve unit from Iowa. I am an Iowan. It’s a small state.
These are my people.
Had to zoom in to see for sure, and Yikes. No good!
Reading “Where There is no Doctor,” and the section describing traditional healing practices that need to be addressed and overcome is pretty wild.
Curing pediatric diarrhea by giving the infant a snake-fang neckless is pretty based even though it doesn’t work.
80% of the mission assignments issued during a major disaster go to the military. “What happens when the military is doing other stuff?” is the question nobody wants to talk about.
Longform version of this argument here: www.hsaj.org/resources/up...
Sorta. I spent nights and weekends for five years publishing peer-reviewed research trying to educate and/or shame people into acknowledging that large-scale war “there” will have catastrophically bad outcomes “here.”
One example: www.domesticpreparedness.com/articles/the...
These kids are tough. Just trying to put laundry away, and I get caught in an ambush they sprung on me.
Taught my 5yo my Dad’s cornbread muffin recipe. Feels good to pass this along.
The celebration afterwards was glorious
Cleaning the grill
The deck is free of snow for the first time in weeks, and I know exactly what needed done.
Without an end for sure. I hate it.
