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I'm making a huge effort to live/eat/work healthier. Holidays weren't kind to me, and the gains I made last fall obliterated by laziness, overeating, undersleeping, and generally crappy living. Oh, and WAY to much beer.
Made a meal plan today, cooking for the week now. I spent $66.19 for what is hopefully a week's worth of low carb food.
Heart block poem
This is actually very helpful, I say it to myself while taking tests. Nerding on a new level.
We all have our callings in life. Some people were born to be doctors or teachers, others were meant to be athletes or movie stars.
Then there’s this other group of people…It’s a group that we know very little about. They come from all walks of life, and are just barely sane enough to fit...
...with some exceptions, of course
caine= local anesthetics cillin= antibiotics dine= anti-ulcer agents done= opiod analgesics ide= oral hypoglycemics iam= antianxiety agents micin= antibiotics nium= neuromuscular blocking agents olol= beta blockers ole= anti-fungal oxacin= antibiotics pam= antianxiety agents pril= ace inhibitors sone= steroids statin= antihyperlipidemics vir= antivirals zide= diuretics
THIS IS IMPORTANT.
My inbox is flooded with questions regarding recent Police controversies. This is all I will say publicly on this blog—
My wife sent me this text message tonight while I was at work, “Be safe today.” That’s also how my 2 year old daughter, mother, father, and everyone else who cares about me sends me off.
Why is that farewell ritual significant? Because in my line of work – I could die. How many people can say that they go into work on a Tuesday and could be killed as a result of performing their job duties? Better yet - did you know that due to accumulated stress and a myriad of other issues, the average Police Officer lives only 10.6 years after retirement? That puts me dead at 65.
For those of you who know me best, you may think “wow, he has sure stayed quiet about all the Police related controversy recently.” Here’s what I will say:
Stop with the Anti Police Propaganda. Stop with the hate. Stop with the ignorance.
We are human beings and the lack of support and pure hatred for Law Enforcement professionals that has come out of recent tragedy is disgusting and prejudice. This is not an opportunity to deliver low blows to the good men and women who wear that uniform daily. This is an opportunity for dialogue, analysis, and change.
I am a Police Officer, but before that I am a father, a husband, a son, a brother, a friend, and a photographer.
I have a soul.
Being a Police Officer does not define me. I am defined by all of the above and then some.
Do you know what it’s like to say goodbye to your family daily, knowing that you are purposely going to drive your car all night towards the danger? Do you know what it’s like to be in your 20’s and bury a good friend killed doing his job? Do you know what it’s like to have your mother tell you “I can sleep peacefully tonight” when you tell her you took the evening off? Do you know what’s it’s like to watch someone die? Do you know what it’s like to have your wife spend half of her life sleeping in an empty bed? Do you know what it’s like to show up to work and have almost every customer be someone who had no other option in life but to call 911? Do you know what it’s like to be in a legitimate fight for your life?
How about this –
Have you ever been spit on? Have you ever been hit? Have you had your property vandalized? Have you ever had someone cuss at you, threaten your life, threaten your family’s life? All because of the job you hold.
I have. And it’s not because I’m a bad cop – it’s because I am a cop. That’s the discrimination I endure.
Some of you will think “you signed up for that.” Other will say “thank you for what you do.”
I’m not writing this to elicit thank you’s. I’m writing this because I am hurt.
Hurt that society has turned it’s back on the people who risk their lives daily. Hurt that you are literally and figuratively throwing stones at us.
What kind of good human being is going to subject himself to this? Keep throwing stones and you will see the decent men and women in that profession seek a calling elsewhere.
Behind this badge is a soul. I am not your enemy.
We deserve the same respect and fairness you seek.
Such a good summation of how so many of my friends in law enforcement feel.
Law enforcement, as a whole, is far from perfect, but it kills less people than medical errors or drunk drivers or recreational drug use. And it is filled with good men and women who are willing to risk their lives to protect others. Don't make the mistake of painting all police with the same brush because some are rotten. Could things be better? Sure. But meanwhile, we ought to be grateful that some stand in the gap against total lawlessness.
Then again, a large part of me wishes that those who hate cops and rail against "the man" might be allowed to experience the full weight of the failure of civility that removing the cops would bring. I'm pretty sick and tired of the abuse ignorant Americans are heaping on my friends and brothers.
I bet there are many of you who have never heard of this terrible crime, I bet you have never heard their names or the story of their murders. Yet I bet most of you have heard the name Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin or Stephen Lawrence. Please read this harrowing story and share it. Channon Christian & Christopher Newsom. Why No Movement for these Innocents? I’ll tell you why… because they were white. It’s as plain as that. And they did not fit the racist meme of the left, who don’t care if two young whites are tortured, raped and murdered in the most horrific crime I have ever seen in my lifetime. I mean, they aren’t black, so it’s not news. Well, it was news to me and their deaths cry out to be heard. Let me tell you about Channon Christian and Chris Newsom, Jr. Warning: this is disturbing and will haunt most people as it does me. Channon Christian was a senior at the University of Tennessee, majoring in Sociology. Chris Newsom, Jr. was a baseball player who worked as a carpenter. Both were devout Christians and Channon (according to her Dad) was saving herself for marriage. The two had been dating for a couple of months and were in love with their whole lives ahead of them. On January 6th, 2007, they were going to a friend’s birthday party. The next day, when Channon did not show for work, her parents called the police. The two were carjacked by 5 black people, four men and one woman. Channon was forced to call her parents at around 12:30 AM to tell them she would be late, so these demons could take their time with them. These evil individuals gagged Chris with a sock, bound his ankles with his own belt and tied his hands behind his back. His face was covered with a bandana and his head was covered with a sweatshirt that was tied around his neck. He was almost beaten to death and violently raped with a foreign object. Channon was forced to watch as Chris was raped, then they cut his genitals off. He was then forced to walk barefoot on nearby train tracks, where he was shot in the neck and the back, paralyzing him, but not killing him. The assailants then put a gun to his head and executed him. Then, for good measure, they set him on fire. That was on a Saturday night, they didn’t find him till Monday. Chris was the lucky one, believe it or not. Hellish horror awaited poor Channon. She was taken back to Lamaricus Davidson’s home and dragged to a back room. She was hogtied with strips of bedding and stripped from the waist down. She was brutally raped in every possible way for hours and almost beaten to death. She sustained brutal wounds to her genital areas and to her chest and head. They sliced off one of her breasts. She was then dragged to the kitchen, where they at first choked her into semi-consciousness. They then poured bleach on her to remove their DNA. They poured bleach down her throat while she was still alive. They then put her body in garbage bags and wrapped her head in a separate bag. They dumped her upside down in a garbage can in the kitchen where she slowly suffocated to death. The judge in the case believes she may have lived up to 24 hours before dying there. When they found her on Tuesday, her eyes were open. I’m sure in her terror and pain, in the end she prayed to God to end it. I’m sure these kids thought of their parents and their families who they would never see again in this lifetime. I’m positive those that did this will go to Hell, vengeance is the Lord’s and these bastards have it coming. Al Sharpton, Barack Obama, Jesse Jackson, Oprah Winfrey, there was no outcry from any of them on this horrific crime. You don’t hear them on any of the crimes out there involving white people or, for that matter, most ethnic crimes. Why? Because it doesn’t benefit them, their agendas or their pockets. They are race pimps and they are evil. Torture and murder came and went unnoticed in Tennessee. There is no ‘movement’ for these innocents, no outrage, no media. I guess color really does matter in the press and politics these days. Closely followed by religion. If they had only been Muslim, the tearing of hair, gnashing of teeth and rending of clothes would never have ended. May Channon and Chris rest in peace and may the Lord bless their families. The blood of innocents cries out for justice in America and lands on deaf ears. None were charged with a hate crime. http://www.trevorloudon.com/2013/08/torture-and-murder-in-tennessee-why-no-movement-for-these-innocents/
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Holy fucking shit
Fucking disgusting. Everyone needs to read this.
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A crime like this is worth rioting over.
I am both an Emt and a manager at a retail store. Believe it or not the two are very similar. Rude people, ungrateful, and lots of yelling. Plus long hours, missed holidays and late nights.
Don’t diss till you’ve lived in both jobs. It’s hell all around.
We could talk about the no guaranteed food breaks or the risk factors or the stress of having someone’s life in your hands or lifting someone that weights 350 off their bed covered in shit and puke in EMS but if you think this job is hell then I think you’re in the wrong profession because it’s definitely worth the hours we put in
It’s adventure time.
Regarding my absences on Tumblr the past few months...
I got a new job, and an amazing girlfriend. Used to be, I'd hit up Tumblr in between calls at the station or on my off days. Now, I'm spending most my work time actually working (if at a station), and my off days have dwindled as I spend the majority of my week in the office. My new job is fantastic. I set my own hours, and largely define my own to-do lists and decide what to work on myself. My boss is very hands-off—she sets big picture objectives and I figure out how to contribute to and support those goals. I get to teach, a lot, and help develop courses and classes. I get to sit in on and learn about the management side of EMS. I do QA/QI/chart review. And I spend a lot of time doing data analysis for everyone else, becoming the person they come to when they are curious about something and want to know real data to back it up. Questions like, how much IV fluid did the average adult trauma patient receive in the past year (answer: about 500 mL. Surprising, but we do emphasize permissive hypotension heavily). What was our average IV Ketamine dose? (a: just above 1 mg/kg). What factors most heavily influence time spent at hospital? (A: how the hospital utilizes EHR software for intake—more electronic software usage = more time spent turning around—and how good the medic is at promptly finishing their charts. This answer changed our approach, we deemphasized rapid turn arounds because timely chart completion was more important). I am a data nerd, so having the toolset and access to ask and answer these questions is SO cool to me. So the new job has kept me plenty busy. The GF has too; she's ended up taking over my free time and all of my thoughts. She is beautiful, intelligent, ambitious, educated, and the perfect yin to my yang, zig to my zag. I can't imagine a more perfect match for me and she delights the hell out of me every single day. And she is wildly in love with me, which is a wonderful, wonderful feeling to have. So that's that…if you've suffered through this whole post, congrats, you're an awesome person and you shall have good fortune today.
Sitting in a hotel room close to 150 feet above the city, watching the traffic and the twinkling lights below through the huge window. I love views like this. They are so inspiring to me—taking in the vast, tangled mess of humanity and the organism-like cities we create. I'm taking the EMS Educator level 1 course this weekend and *loving* it. Learning so much about how to better teach, and coming up with so many great ideas I can't wait to take back to my program. I've got a fondness for travel and hotels and new cities, and I definitely like traveling on someone else's dime (my employer, in this case). I think I need to figure out how to leverage my speaking skills to hit the conference circuit or something. One final tip: hotel liquor prices are unbelievable. Best move I made this trip was to pack my own flask of single malt scotch for late-night relaxation.
Just after training in Baton Rouge. We stopped by the Abita Brew Pub in Abita Springs on our way home.
I need that t shirt...
Murphy's law
Great. the night before a field exercise I slice open the tip of my finger. That was the last fucking thing I needed. On a side note, to any trained paramedics/nurses (maybe freexcitizen), not sure if you’d know, but can super glue be used to seal cuts like that so I don’t get stuff in it while I’m crawling in mud all day?
I’ve used it on minor cuts and stuff you should ask dr-joe, gorillamedic or @militamedic
Super glue is a great option for cuts, providing you can get the edges close and that the cut is superficial. If it goes deeper than the top level of skin, glue will prevent the wound from healing properly.
But for superficial wounds, can't beat it. I always keep some in my first aid kit.
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