night all. see you in the am. oh and try and keep it clean........or at least interesting.

Double post.....

Yup. Thanks for asking , David. Today no temp at all. Weird. But I always find they spike their temps at night. But I think this one finally has his immune system up so maybe he did get over it that quickly.... Thank goodness!!! Can't get much work done when I am getting him juice and popsicles all day. And of course, cuddling with him. :)

"Expectations - that's why the book is always better than the movie." — The Stick

Joe, sucking chest wound? You mean stab wound or gun shot wound? I spent two weeks in the nation's largest trauma center and I saw some crazy stuff! Saw a man come in with a gunshot wound through the chest. They already had his chest cracked while the doctor was on the gurney HAND PUMPING his heart while they wheeled him the OR. Guy was white as a sheet. Probably lost all his blood. They brought the guy back to life. Crazy.

Another one came in with his arm torn off by a Bobcat machine...

And she just outlined why I didn't go to med school...

SCWs can be inflicted by a variety of methods.....the only ones I've seen are firearm inflicted.......the last one still farks with me.....that low gurgle they make is a sound not easily forgotten..

That's what happens when they try to replace a wild animal with some sort of machine.

Before all that gore showed up at the hospital, it occurred somewhere in normal everyday life......

Yes, but you are guaranteed to see it in the hospital

Where you're at least expecting it rather than pulling into a parking lot in a beautiful spring day to find a middle age man on the ground , slowly and painfully dying of a SCW.....

yep. joe and i have some common thought processes.

I always expect to see a middle aged man on the ground, slowly and painfully dying of a SCW when I pull into parking lots on a beautiful spring day. That way I feel much better about the day when it doesn't happen.

There's a full medic bag that goes in whichever vehicle I'm using at the time.....from atropine to iv fluids to chest seals.......people think I'm weird for this.....

I just carry duct tape, a paper clip, and a Swiss Army knife.

Duct tape and some sort of tubing can be a good chest seal......kinda like bleeding brakes......let the fluid and blood out and don't let the air in.....

Duct tape also make a good cup holder. As long as it's a full roll.

Got all these too, but for out here it's not a weird thing to do.

The fourbee has a 5hit load of recovery gear in it all the time too.

Sucking chest wounds are fun because then you get to throw in a chest tube.

Looking forward to beer o'clock today - only 30min to go.