Beginning of week two!

This weekend was a busy one to say the least, I went on a ride a long with station 8 this weekend. Nothing too stressful, it was mainly just to observe life in the fire house and that's exactly what I did. I have what the firefighters call a white cloud following me. No matter what station I'm at, we don't receive many calls. Station 8 is known to be one of the busiest stations in the valley and average anywhere from 6-12 calls in a day, we had two for the 12 hours I was there with them. I did however get two patient contacts. I took blood sugar and blood pressures on two very intoxicated males. The rest of the day consisted of watching Paranorman, College Basketball, and a very cool car auction. The guys at 8 were great and it was a pleasure getting to meet and work along side everyone.

Sunday I went down to Provo to stay at a friend's place and have some fun. We made a Cafe Rio style dinner and had a great time playing games. One of Afton's room mates, Renee is in the animation program at BYU and it was a lot of fun talking art, color theory and concept design with her. If I wasn't doing paramedic, I would probably be studying art as my major. For now it will remain as one of my beloved hobbies that I will use as an excuse to take a break from studying once in a while.

Anytime I am together with this particular group of friends (Afton, Haval, Jared, and any of his room mates that choose to come) we can be doing anything and burst out into uncontrollable laughter leaving us all in tears and barely able to breathe. Werewolf and Uno were the games of choice this weekend. I'm so glad I have these people in my life to lighten the mood and knock me down to size. While waiting for dinner to cook last night, we were giving each other nicknames Struggles is what I ended up with, I wasn't too offended because put simply, it fits. Haval was Stutters and Jared was Gimp. We can all pick on each other and laugh at ourselves without taking offense because we all know it's meant to be taken very lightly. We all know that we would do anything for each other. I'm so lucky to have such an awesome support group cheering me on in life.

While this weekend was a lot of fun, it left me very sleep deprived and class this morning was very long. We were warned at the beginning of class that it was going to be one of those "death by power point" kind of days. Sure enough, we went through almost 200 slides on the subject of patient assessments. I have another ride along tomorrow and I can't wait to hopefully get a few more patient contacts to add to meager list. Hopefully I will get the chance to write tomorrow night to tell of my time spent at the firehouse.

Until then!
Katie