EMT Geocoin

To Honor those who are truly our home town unspoken heroes!

I am an ambulance driver, you say as I am on the scene of a vehicle accident that has a popular high school student that is trapped in the submerged S.U.V. in the creek as I am standing in the chest deep water, freezing rain falling and stinging as it hits the exposed parts of my body. Holding her head above the water to keep her from drowning until rescue could get there to cut her free---BUT I'M AN AMBULANCE DRIVER

I comfort an 89 year old woman who just watch me and my partner cover the face of her husband of 64 years as he lay dead in their bathroom floor---BUT I'M AN AMBULANCE DRIVER

I am on scene of another mva with mom trapped upside down in her car and her dead sons body laying on top nof her without a secnd thought for my own safety I crawl into the wreckage to take C-spine control and calm the frantic lady---BUT I'M AN AMBULANCE DRIVER

I get called away from my just prepared meal to respond to the middle of bumble "F" Egypt to a house with no numbers, no porch light on, noboby waiting to signal us down and they bitch because we took to long only to find out the patient left in their own vehicle ten minutes ago...so we smile and walk away from the verbal lashing only because we are JUST AMBULANCE DRIVERS

I stand in the middle of the street at midnight on the wrong side of town trying to patch holes and stop the bleeding of a 19 year old shooting victim with the occasional bullet wixxing past our heads we never break strides because this kids life is in our hands---BUT I'M AN AMBULANCE DRIVER

Or how about doing chest compressions on a 16 year old girl who decides this life was more than she could take.  Her family screaming at us to help as though we are the ones who did this to her.  Her lifeless body flailing about as tube goes in and I.V.'s being started, my arms and back burning from pain of 30 minutes of CPR never once giving up, hoping she would make it through and over come whatever lead her to this bad decision---BUT I'M AN AMBULANCE DRIVER

Death is all around me and still I go home to live my life, I get kicked, hit, spit on, bled on, pukes on, cussed at and disrespected... I look into the eyes of a lifeless child at 7 AM and by 8 AM I am holding my child a little tighter and they know nothing about what happened.  I have hundreds of hours of classroom time, years of field experience, I have challenged death and won. 

I've helped the helpless

I've neglected my family for yours

I find comfort in chaos

I eat cold meals if I eat at all

I work with no sleep for days at a time

I miss birthdays, holidays and school functions

I put myself in harms way for a total stranger on a daily basis

ALL BECAUSE I AM JUST AN AMBULANCE DRIVER