Tuesday, August-03-10
Since my last post I have made my way to ים המלח-The Dead Sea. I’m here a best friend of mine who I’ve been with this entire time and we basically just decided to take a vacation within a vacation. I’ll be here three days, so I’ll post more about it later on, but so far it’s beyond gorgeous and relaxing. Now to recall my shift from Sunday night...
To start, my shift partner and I arrived to מזא''ה-Mazeh station 15min early for our shift and no one was to be found. We weren’t even sure if our driver had arrived yet so we waited. 30min went by and the driver from the previous shift came back and told us that our driver was already out but to call the dispatch, which for our region is situated at the main station. I did and someone told me that our driver should be back shortly. So we waited...and waited...and waited. Finally at about 1am our driver walked in. It turned out he had been on אבטחה-avtacha (security/protection?) at a soccer game since 7pm and kept getting calls before he could get back to the station to pick us up. So we didn’t actually miss him and it wasn’t really anyone’s fault and at least he told us we didn’t miss anything worthwhile.
Our first call came in at 2am and by this time I was really ready to go. We arrived to a young women lying in the bathtub screaming in pain. To this point this is the worst agony I’ve ever seen a patient in. Turns out boiling water had spilled on her while she was sitting in bed and she had 2° burns on her abdomen, leg, & arm which covered about 10-15% of her body. In the ambulance the treatment for burns in to cover them with gauze and to take the IV bag of saline and continuously saturate them. After speaking with dispatch, our driver was told to take her to תל השומר-Tel HaShomer hospital since it was better for burn treatment. Even with sirens going it was a good 15min drive from where we were and was this drive ever something. In that 15min we were continuously busy, opening gauze pad, IV kits, and trying to get some vitals, with this poor woman in complete agony the entire way. As soon as we got her into the emergency room they were ready with morphine and I think that was a relief to all of us in the room. My partner and I returned back to the ambulance, and wow, was it ever a mess. We had gone through almost every piece of gauze we had (all individually wrapped) and all three IV kits, plus we had a nice little flood. It took us a while to clean up and in the end we had to head back to the main station since we were in disparate need for supplies.
We finally made it back to our station and got about an hour of sleep. We were all so tired and it hardly seemed like we had only been on one call. One cancelled call later we got our next real call. It was for a שרוע-sarooa. I don’t think I’ve commented on this before (which is strange) but that’s MDA slang for a homeless or more generally someone who is just lying somewhere. Most of the time these calls don’t turn out to be anything more than a concerned passerby, but you never do know. We get to the first man and surely he doesn’t want/need our help. Immediately we got another call for a שרוע-sarooa and then yet another, this time for two on opposite sides of the road. And none of them needed anything. At that time of the morning, I don’t think any of us were appreciating those calls very much, but what can you do. After another well needed hour of sleep we got yet another call for a שרוע-sarooa. This one was actually needed and when we got there the police had already arrived. This guy must of been drunk or on some kind of drugs because he was barely responding, and in the end they just moved him around the corner and that was all. So not such an eventful shift, but I really enjoyed it with my chulnik partner, especially since it was her last shift. I am hopefully to fit in one more for myself on Friday morning, but I will see how the week goes. As for now, I’m going back to the pool.
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