911--What's your emergency?

How, what an awesome day! Today, I rode with the Lancaster Ambulance for the morning. Our day started off at 7:30 with the first call....
82 year old woman with difficulty breathing
4 heart surgeries, pace maker, etc...
5 leg surgeries, most recent in July
Great, we get there and she has all her meds written down, husband there with all insurance information, blah, blah, blah. We manage to get her into the ambulance and off we go to LGH. I'm in the back with Debbie, while Brandon is driving. We're trying to start an IV with fluids, but with the great smooth roadways, we fudge our way through.
We hit a bump
The IV's in
Blood is shooting like a fountain everywhere
Ok, we have our gloves
Did it get in our mouths?, our eyes?
Ok, we're good and things are stable
Ugh! We finally make it to LGH and all is well. Most likely, our patient had a pulmonary embolism from her recent leg surgery. (a PE is a blood clot that has traveled through your body and lodged itself in your lungs).

Next case. We picked up a lady from the nursing home to take her to Ephrata to get her chemotherapy treatment. We have to wait there until she is finished!? (this took about 2 hours... need I say more) Anyway, while we were there, numerous calls are coming in...
Shooting in Lancaster outside the Belvedere
Accident in Lancaster City
23 year old with upper abdomen pain, vomitting
Why couldn't we go to those case, huh? Oh well, over all I had a great day.
You would honestly be surprised though to find out how many people do not pull over when an ambulance is passing with lights and syrines. FRUSTRATION SETS IN.

Ok, tonight is yet another football game against Ephrata. Wish us luck!