Headaches and pink slippers.

3 severe headache calls in 24 hours... was it the tug of the moon's gravity, something in the air, or what? I did a 24 with VO sunday. First call of the day was for a severe headache, general weakness. Got there, nothin huge happening, routine run to the hospital.

Later in the evening we had what came in as chest pains and general illness. Nothin huge there either (except for the pt, that is. he wasn't HUUUUUUGGGGAAAHH, but he was a big fella.)

Then at 04:30 monday mornin, we got yet another "severe head pain" run.
She musta been hurtin because when we got there, she was sitting outside, at 0445ish, wearing sunglasses. had em on from when we picked her up til we dropped her off at the ER.

My shift ended at 0800, started heading back home because i had to work QVA at 0900. i was about a mile or so out of town when QVA got hit for a severe headache/dizziness. The lady was hurtin, you could tell. She didnt even wanna breathe too loud. could barely get info out of her, and of course she wanted to go to syracuse because thats where her neuro is. Gotta say, she and her husband got it together when it comes to medical info. her husband handed me a stack of papers, which included a current meds list, a complete medical history, The list of doctors and specialists she was seeing, and somethin else i cant quite remember. Pretty nice list, except it didnt have any personal info on it so i had to keep buggin her for info. ah well, thats what we're here for, right?

Paramedic class is goin pretty good. That quiz monday was a bitch. had 36 fill-in-the-blank/short answer questions on Shock and Acid/Base balance, along with an essay style bonus question. talk about a headache. I absolutely hate that style of quiz. I do understand the logic behind it... If you can do a fill in the blank test, you know your stuff... anybody can pass a multiple guess test. Pardon my whining... still trying to get used to this extent of studying. I'll get there soon. I'm not messin this class up.
We started up pharmacology monday after the quiz. we'll be gettin into IV practice either tomorrow or after Thanksgiving break.

Now for the pink slippers. I almost laughed my ass off earlier.
Wal-Mart is good for many things. a wide variety of items, endless redneck jokes, and from time to time, some rather comedic moments.
I bought a video a few days ago and i decided to bring it back today for a few reasons. I walked in, went to the customer service desk, explained what was goin on, and she proceeded to ask if i had a pink slip with it. i was like "???" and she said you're supposed to check with the greeter and get a pink sticker that says this is for a return. The other girl then goes over to the intercom, hits the button and says "I need a CSM to customer service, i have a gentleman here with a return and he forget to get his pink slippers-I MEAN STICKER!!! Pink sticker!!!"
Now of course she's wayyyyy beyond saving it now, because i'm LMAO, so is she (although very red in the process), the other employees at customer service, and one or 2 of the ladies on registers within earshot. come to find out it wasnt over the intercom, but instead over the walkie-talkie system. but still, i'm sure everyone who heard it started crackin up. i saw a lot of employees with big smiles walkin by after that. so after a few minutes worth of chuckling and good natured ribbing (i mentioned that she was gonna come in for her next shift and find a pair of pink slippers hangin by the door... she laughed and said "i'd better not" and one of her co-workers looked at me and said "Haaayyyy, thats an idea!" The girl did say, several times, "I'm never gonna live this one down, am i." her coworkers were like "no, probably not."), i left, with people still chuckling at the whole exchange. it was really quite amusing. some of the employees were actually apologizing to me between the verbal mix-up and the fact that it took a lil while for me to get my refund. I kept tellin them to stop apologizing, it'd been a while since i had a laugh that good. i did finally convince them i wasnt upset or anything, cuz i think they were thinkin i was gettin frustrated or whatever. I was lovin it though. Gotta love Wally World.

Anyone out there heard of the band Flyleaf? Relatively new group, they kick some ass.
bought their CD sunday, only 12 hours after i first heard of the band. Caught one of their songs on the Hard Drive radio show on my way into work sunday... got to work, looked them up online, then eventually went to wal-mart sunday night and bought the cd. they have a few of their songs on their web page, www.flyleafmusic.com
They've got a pretty good sound to them.

Well, i'm outta here. gotta go try to set up my CDL road test tomorrow and hope there is an opening somewhere soon... there's people around here who can't get tested until late december. hopefully i can get lucky and get one withing 3 weeks somewhere.
TTYS