Story Time

First I want to talk about something that happens to people my age. People my age end up watching their parents age and cant do anything about it. I’ve always been a caregiver so Ill handle it well. I had a grandmother who had Alzheimer’s so I would do simple things for her. Like remind here to eat or to check the mail. I took some time out of work when things got really bad.

One day she flooded her apartment while taking a nap. She had forgotten that she put the sink on to fill her tea pot. She did other things to but always laughed about it. This seems selfish but I used her to talk to. She couldn’t remember what was said 5 minutes after it was said so it was really good that I could vent.

I wanted to switch the topic and talk about my one true love. (Since I don’t know how to upload media yet I will do the less fun kind of picture sharing). My one true love He is always waiting for me after I get out of the shower or when I get home from work. Not even a wife is as attentive as he is to my needs and my exhausting.

So this IS a story kind of post so I will include one from very early in my fire fighting career.

So sometime before 2am (because thats when the club had to close) we get a call for a man unconcious and bleeding inside the club. So they tone us out and we get up and get dressed. When we got there it was haotic there was a group of people outside the club near the entrance.

First thing I saw was there was a car on fire in the parking lot. This is what I saw even before I get out of the truck. When I finally get out and hit the ground the tires on the car start to burst and I swear Ive never been so scared in my life (the noise is loud).

However we have a guy hurt in the club and no one was in danger from the car fire. One police officer arrived on scene at that time. So we all went into the club. It was dark and smoky (you could smoke almost anywhere remember this is early 2000s). Of course there was a massive amount of people in the club and finally when we found the guy he was really hurting. Blood was coming from his head and he was unconscious. So we begin to work on this guy right there in the club with no rescue and just 1 cop to hold back the crowd. We begin CPR because the man was not breathing and out of no where these 2 other guys start to fight. Now we are standing in a packed club with 1 cop and there’s fighting going on all around us. My captain Jeff got a bottle of something to the head and he was hurt so we decided to drag the injured man out of the club.

Before we got to the door the cop ended up in a fist fight with someone and I was nervous he would lose control of his gun. The man who we were still doing cpr on wasn’t responding and we were getting ready to intubate because the rescue was finally there.

Out of no where some man with a neck the size of my thigh punches an electrical meter on the side of the club and gets electrocuted. Now we have 2 guys down and the cops hurt so we have 3 patients. Around that time more police showed up and the situation was controlled.

The man who was in the club unconscious died and so did the man who punched the electric meter. There was another engine on scene now for the car fire and we decided to clear the scene and lick our wounds.

Sometimes we take for granted the security we have or the well being that we maintain however you never know when shits going to go totally bat shit crazy.

Anyway its early but I have to get up at 4am to get to work for 5. If any of you have suggestions for topics I should write about please from them in my DM or get at me anyway you can.

<3