Just can't shake this call.. It was just what seemed like the routine "elderly lady took a fall" call.. except that we were also experiencing a tropical storm at the time, and this call was outside.. I remember my partner commenting jokingly on the way there that you can't keep these old ladies inside regardless of the weather. On arrival, we saw blood before we even pulled up to the scene. A wind gust had taken a heavy door and it hit her in the head and split her scalp wide open. She was covered in blood, her lips, tongue, finger tips were blue but she was talking to me and telling me her full name, she was a little bit mumbley and unable to recall some details but she was alert.. and not 15 seconds later.. she was VSA and we were working an arrest. I just seemed like it happened so fast. The radios were also on the fritz that night and we were finally able to get another unit and the FD to help out, so it was just me, a medic with 2 years under my belt and my partner with 27 years.. working this arrest outside in a parking lot in what felt like a hurricane. I can't stop thinking about it, I can't remember certain details and that's driving me crazy, I see her name in all the papers, all over the news, on the radio, people keep asking me about it and I just can't think about it or talk about it without my eyes welling up..
I don't know how or why this one got me.. but it did.