"Your grumpy is with a big smile on your face."

The title says it all... Apparently, everyone at work thinks I'm never grumpy. Which is totally awesome in my opinion. :-) I've been asked quite a bit if I ever get angry or grumpy. Yes, unfortunately, there are times that I'm grumpy... It's rare that I get really angry though. I have never been grumpy at work and so that's why everyone thinks that I'm always happy. If you're gonna be a grump there really is no reason to go to work. I love my job and the people I work with and so I can't help being happy. :)
I can't remember how my partner and I got on the topic of being grumpy. I think I had jokingly said I was going to be grumpy because of what he said. That's when he replied with: "Your grumpy is with a big smile on your face." I can so live with that reputation. :)
God has given me so much in life that I can't help but smile and be happy. I'm glad that others are able to see that in me. :)

Today it has decided to snow on us... It has already accumulated some, but thankfully the roads are still clear. We're only supposed to get a couple inches so hopefully it won't be too bad this evening when everything freezes. Work hasn't been too terribly busy today, we've only done 3 calls total since 7 am. I'm kinda hoping for a good wreck... lol, my partner this morning said that if we had a bad wreck that I was going to have to climb in the vehicle and intubate the pt. You can't really pass up an opportunity like that!
I worked a wreck yesterday morning at 3:30 am. The vehicle had rolled several times and had finally come to rest in the ditch. We found out later that they vehicle had actually hit a semi (and totaled it), before rolling.There was actually a trail of stuff (including a toddler seat) that ran from the highway to where the vehicle ended up. I'm amazed the guy wasn't hurt worse. There was a scary moment in which the pt told us that other people had been with him. No one else was in the vehicle and we searched the entire area to make sure we hadn't missed someone. The pt kept changing his story and we never did get a clear answer whether the pt was alone or not. The pt was most likely not wearing a seat belt and that would explain why he ended up in the passenger seat. Anyway, it made for an interesting/freaky call.

Well, I was going to write more and post up some pictures, but I'm tired and going to try and take a nap instead. I'll try and post later...maybe. :)

An insightful post featuring work, sickness, answered prayers, and the brownies that met with a fateful end.

I'm so ready for the weekend to be here. I have Friday to Tuesday off and I'm going home for the whole time! :) And the whole family will be together again... hasn't happened in a long time. :) I'm going to try and get a ton of pictures and video's of the little girls. And I'll try and get some of everyone else too. ;)

This last weekend I came down with a cold and I'm finally getting over it, I think. I never get sick and so it's been annoying. It's amazing, but even being around sick people all the time, I haven't gotten anything really bad. I think why I ended up getting this cold, is because I was so rundown last week. I worked Sunday to Thursday which equaled 81 hours. I went hiking on Friday, ran and cleaned then on Saturday. I really didn't have a break last week.
I have noticed if it's been a crazy work week I'll start feeling sick. This time it just didn't go away the next day. I am thankful that I made it through almost the whole winter without getting sick. And it could've been worse than a cold, and I'm grateful for that. :)

I went to Rolla today, but couldn't go home. How lame is that? That's the first time I've gotten to take an LDT there. That ride can get pretty long, but my patient was one chatty guy and it went by quickly. He told me that he used to be a smoker for a number of years and then one day decided to quit. He said he knew he couldn't do it on his own and so got down on his knees and prayed that God would take the craving for cigarettes away. He said that he never once craved a cigarette after that. I thought it was a pretty amazing story since once you're addicted to something like that it's hard to just quit. He gave all the credit to God and kept saying it wasn't anything he did. I don't know if he was a Christian or not, but I was impressed that he said that. :) God does answer prayers.

So, yesterday I had made some awesome dark chocolate brownies with a caramel swirl. While driving home today, I was looking forward to eating one of those brownies. I walked in the door and wondered why I could smell the brownies so well. Man, I didn't think my nose was that great, and even with a cold? I look at the counter where I had left the brownies this morning. The foil was still there but no brownies. At this point in time, I'm thinking: "Oh crud..." It took me a little bit but I then found the brownies under the table. Apparently, Beric (Elisabeth and Patrick's German shepherd), thought he needed a dark chocolate fix. Sad to say, he ate almost the entire pan. I think he will be fine even though that was a whole lot of chocolate for a dog. And honestly, I'm glad they're gone.... then I won't eat anymore. ;) This love I have for baking is really a terrible thing. I'm always wanting to make stuff and then I'm stuck with eating it. Which, is extremely yummy, but it will also put the pounds on. I suppose that means if I want to keep baking, then I most certainly can't stop running. Let's bring on the miles, Hillary! ;-) hehe

I'm off work tomorrow and so I'm planning to run in the morning and then go to the mall with Elisabeth. Should be a good day. :) Enjoy your evening, everyone!

Sleep would be sweet....

So tired right now... I just finished with a 46 hour shift. Way too long if you ask me. While working Sunday evening I got a call asking if I would cover the open shift the next day. I told them I would as long as I could go home first and take a shower. They agreed and I was very impressed that I was able to get home, shower, pack food, and grab anything else I might need for the 24+ hours, and leave the house in less than an hour. Oh, and I even had time to straighten my hair so I wasn't a frizz ball/curly head. ;) Not bad, right? I'm sure some of you can do better but I was happy I could get that much done in a little amount of time. :)
I didn't have a brilliant night and got about 3 hours of combined sleep. Ugh, have I said how much I hate that about my job? We were busy all evening and I finally went to bed a little before midnight. Our first call at 2 I never remember hearing the tones go off. I remember suddenly being awake and already getting one boot on. I didn't even really know why I was doing it until my pager went off a minute later and I realized after looking at the address that we had gotten a call. I must've been sleeping hard because I always hear the tones go off. We got back around 3 and I laid back down... About 5 minutes later we got toned for a rollover accident. Ended up not being a rollover accident, but the guy had hit a tree and it had flung him back on the road... Yeah, I at first had a hard time understanding that when I heard he hit a tree, since he was in the middle of the road. The patient was conscious the whole time and talked to us almost non-stop. He had an obvious femur fracture and it was no easy matter getting him moved to the backboard. He had a high pain tolerance, I can tell you that much. So, by the time we had finished with the call and cleaned our truck it was after 5. Slept for an hour and was back up for shift change.
Really, one of the only reason I'm writing this post is I'm trying to keep from falling asleep. I know if I start to read a book I'll be out in a few minutes. I need to make it to at least 9 and then I'll give in. :) And then I'll be up in the morning to do it all over again. Well, not 46 hours, thankfully. Just 24.
Amazing thing about this week? I'll have 30 hours of overtime and still have Thursday to Saturday off. =) Now that is what I call awesome!

Hope everyone else is having a wonderful week so far! :)

A crazy Saturday.... :)

1.5 more hours left to my shift and I'm done for a couple days! :) Today has been incredibly slow. One call at 2:30 and another just a little bit ago and that's been it so far. Not that I like being so busy you don't have time for anything, but it does get old after awhile just sitting here. Yesterday the calls were pretty steady. I thought we were going to run on crazy people all day cause that's what it seemed like. In the morning we had a guy who drank probably a half of gallon of vodka and he then decides to call us. We get him moved to the cot with some difficulty as he is not a small guy at all. We had trouble getting him to stay upright on the cot as he kept wanting to lean. I worried for a little bit that the cot was going to tip but thankfully, it never did. All seemed to be going well. We got to the hospital and I came around back to help take the pt off the monitor. He kinda flipped out then... He swung his arms at me and then tried hitting my partner. He ended up taking himself off the monitor and going after my partner. We finally got him in the ER and the officers arrived soon after. He was drunk enough that I don't think he could ever do much damage, but he went after my partner ready to fight. A good reason to never get that drunk... you can't control your actions.
One of our other pt's that day thought he was zombie. He asked us if he had come back from the dead. We assured him he hadn't. I couldn't help but smile though. ;)
We were transporting this elderly man back to the nursing home and he asked me if we were going to take the train. I told him that we were close enough that we didn't need to take a train. As we were about to pull him out of the truck he asked me if we were at the rock concert. Nope, not at all... :) Talk about an interesting shift. lol
Our one legit call was a young girl in SVT (supraventricular tachycardia) with a rate of 220. That's incredibly fast...for those who didn't know. I have never seen a heart rate that fast on the monitor....neither had my partner for that matter. lol, the firefighter on scene was telling me the vitals and said that it was going so fast he couldn't count it. I believe that! It's hard to count a heart rate going 160's. For those curious, she ended up converting it herself back down to around 120-130's.
So, that's what my shift yesterday consisted of. :) I'm so excited that I'm off work for a couple days though!

Well, my darling sister just got online and so I'm going to go and chat with her. She never gets online so I'm pretty excited. =D

No work! :)

Today is my second day that I've had off and I'm very much enjoying it. :) Yesterday, I was pretty lazy and didn't do a whole lot.... except sleep, read, and watch movies. I was tired from my shift the day before and ended up not getting very much sleep... that's my excuse for my lazy day. Today, is going to be a little different. I'm going to run in a little bit, and then I need to run a few errands. So, that'll keep me from having two lazy days in a row. ;-) I then work the next two days, off two, work one, and then off the rest of the week. I love getting my 4o hours done in two days. It makes for a nice week. :)

So.... not much to say about my life. Oh, I went home last weekend and didn't leave till Tuesday. It was pretty awesome since I hardly ever go home for long. I had a good time and enjoyed seeing Naters while he was down. I don't think I had seen him since Christmas... How sad is that?! Pretty sad... I had missed my little brother. :) lol, I like calling him little cause he's really not little. He's way taller than me, but I'm older and so I can call him little.

Yeah, so... I'm pretty boring. I really have no exciting news to tell.... Oh, I switched my bed around in my room! Oh wait... that's not really exciting at all. I needed a little bit of a change in my life and that was all I could come up with. How pathetic! sigh. I need a life... :)

Well, I hope everyone is enjoying this fabulous weather we're having of dreary snow/sleet and no sun! I'm not sure I am... ;)

These were taken a couple weeks ago when we got our first snow. Amazingly enough, I was off work one day and decided to go out and take a few pictures. I had fun... until I got cold. ;)

Not sure why, but this picture makes me think of mountains. :) If you have a good imagination (or maybe a weird one ;-), then the rocks in the background look to be a mountain.... you really do have to have an imagination to see it though. ;-)

I love the reflection in the water...

This is part of a church and I really like it. Talk about some cool wedding pictures..... ;-)

And that's it! Not too many, but I didn't want you all to be bored. ;) And it's almost nine so I'm going to try and get to bed early. Ha! We'll see if it actually happens though. ;)
Night all!

Ramblings on Valentine's Day... :)

Oh wow.... I haven't posted in a month! I have really neglected my blog. Things should settle down a little bit more now so hopefully, I'll get back to posting more regularly. :)

Work has been crazy the last couple weeks and on top of all that I was trying to study for my ACT. Which, I did take on Saturday and so I'm now done with it...hopefully forever. :) I didn't think I was too nervous going in on Saturday but then as I'm sitting there waiting for the test to start my heart rate was above 100... apparently, I was more nervous than I thought. ;) Oh, and a funny thing is that Patrick dreamed the night before that I got a -3 on it. Lol, I think it's hilarious that he had the bad dream and I didn't. =)

Work is great. This week I'm only working 8 hours of overtime so it's a good break. :) And I get to do my 40 hours in 41 hours! ;-) Isn't that just kinda cool? I like it cause then it means I'm off for the rest of the week. So, after I get off work Friday morning I'm planning on going home. I haven't been home in ages it seems and I'm so excited about it! Nate is going to be there and so are Hannah, Jacob, and the girls! =) I love my family!

I have pictures of the crazy blizzard we had, but they're all on my phone so I'll try and figure out how to post them up. :) We probably got about 20 inches of snow. And it was definitely a blizzard. I worked every day that it snowed and it was pretty bad. Visibility was awful and then you had crazy people walking in the middle of the road. Not sure what they were thinking, but its no wonder people get hit by cars. You don't walk in the middle of the road, when the snow is blowing and the drivers are having enough trouble just seeing the road, and expect not to get hit. No, I did not hit anyone... for those wondering. I just felt like having some words with them. ;) Oh, and don't ever text and drive if you're unable to pull over for an ambulance that has it's lights and sirens going. I mean really, what is so hard about pulling over for two seconds as we go by? That completely annoys the life out of me. And pull over to the right... don't pull left cause it makes life that much more complicated. I almost hit a guy today as he decided to go left and just when I'm about to pass him on the right, he decides to switch sides. Ok, so maybe it would've been more his fault, but I would've gotten in trouble for it. So, keep these things in mind when you see an ambulance with lights/sirens going. :-) Oh, and don't panic whatever you do. ;-)

Ok, so I'm done with my ramblings about reckless drivers. ;-) I hope you all had a wonderful Valentine's day. :) I think I'm going to bed now... Sleep sounds absolutely wonderful at the moment. =)