Glass Eye!

Found out tonite that the guy who sits a row behind me in paramedic class has a glass eye.
I heard a commotion behind me near the end of one of our breaks, turned around, and it appeared that this guy was doing the eyeball trick out of Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls.
Then he proceeded to push a little harder and with a flip of a finger, out it popped. I just about flipped out. Started laughing after the initial shock wore off (it didnt take long) then started laughing my ass off because of the reaction of his friend, who was sitting next to him. This guy starts turnin green around the gills, just about dry heaving. Then when we slowly start to calm down, the guy says "Aw man, it aint on straight" and proceeds to rotate the glass eye, which gets us flippin out again, then he starts tappin on his eye with a pen, which pushed us all over the edge. My sister, glass eye guy, the guy on the other end of his table, and I are just rollin. I was laughin so hard i could barely breath, tears rollin, and everybody who didn't know what was goin on was just lookin at us like "???" Most of our laughter was because of the guy turnin green and repeatedly stating "I'm gonna puke man, i'm gonna puke". So we FINALLY calmed down (sort of) by the time the teacher (a sub giving us an A&P refresher) started talking again and does anyone wanna guess the first words out of her mouth? "So everybody here knows all about the Eyes, ears, nos---drowned out by the hysterical laughter of the 6 people familiar with the event that just occured behind me. So now she is lookin at us like we're loopy, so Mr Glass Eye showed the whole class his lil trick, which effectively killed a few more minutes before ppl recomposed themselves. He told us later how he likes to stick stuff in the corner of his eye that shouldnt be there, or how he likes to coil up about a foot or so of dental floss behind the fake eye then make like somethin itches then pull out the floss... That just ain't right...

I've been getting a few calls lately. They kinda come in waves for me, at least with the ambulance.
I wound up riding in with QVA on an MVC the other mornin... Went out for a smoke (i dont smoke at home out of respect for my parents and i also dont want my little siblings to see me smokin) and just started drivin around town at like 0240. couple minutes later a town cop blows by me. i was going the same direction he was, so i just continued on after he passed, and just before i got out of town, Rescue and Ambulance got blown out for an MVC-PI (Motor Vehicle Collision with Personal Injury). It was only about another mile or so ahead, so i went up, offered my services to PD, and checked up on the ppl involved until other EMS got there and they took over. Then i wound up riding in with the ambulance as we took both Pts to the hospital. Both BLS, although hurtin a lil bit. Lucky kids, they were. They were either lost or just taking the really long way home (instead of getting on the North/South interstate {both their starting point and destination are either on or near this interstate} they took a state highway that takes them in more of a wide sweeping C-shape to get there) Anyway, they were lucky because she fell asleep at the wheel, went off the road, bounced over someones driveway, then went up off the road into some trees and didnt hit any of em. She should have flipped her car when she hit the embankment for the driveway at 55ish. Then they came to a stop with a tree touching against the passengers side corner panel.

Then the next night, we got hit for a Cardiac in North Nowhere. (this is so far north that dispatchers have made a joke of yelling out "HEY GUYS, I FOUND QVA!" when we call for times at the hospital. It took us about 25 minutes or so of travel to get there (When i say this is North Nowhere, i'm not joking. Even the crows pack a lunch when they take this trip). So we got there and our cardiac was actually chest pn from pneumonia along with Acute Respiratory Distress. She was bad enough that we offered to assist her with a BVM, but she didnt want none of that.
Couple doses of Albuterol and a Solumedrol later, she was in a little less distress. She was yet another pt. that waited wayy too long to call us. We have several of them. We get there and they're CTD (Circling The Drain) because they should have called us like 2 days ago. So we took her from there to one of the city hospitals which was about a 1 hour transport away. She refused the closer hospital because of some issues she's had in the past... So i think that wound up being a solid 3 hour tour.
Not much new other than that, just trying to get my new job in motion... gonna be driving school bus. Hey, its decent pay, about a mile and a half from my house... work as much as i can without interfering with paramedic class, then once i'm a paramedic, go do paramedic stuff and maybe still have the bus as a side job to boot.
Time for me to sign off.
In the words of my instructor:
Keep your heads out of the clouds, out of your asses, and your feet on the ground and you'll do fine.