Hot

You know, I'm never really one to complain about the weather much. I don't mind the rain, don't mind the cold, don't mind the heat. And today was cooler than yesterday, I think, but it really felt hot today. Maybe it was the humidity, maybe it was a string of calls during dayshift and no real time to cool off between.

Medic 21 seems to stay hot even with the a/c blowing lately - personally I think the air in the patient compartment needs new freon, but I don't know if any of The Powers That Be are listening to me whine. But the environmental controls show 90+ degrees back there when we tone out, and even after several minutes of full a/c, it's only down to 85 or so. Whine, whine, whine...

Had multiple calls in a row today, including three MVCs (can't call 'em MVAs anymore, since we're not qualified to say they're "accidents" - now they're "Motor Vehicle Collisions"). Anyway, one was a multicar/multipatient thing on I-5 that could have been way worse. (I now have a huge amount of respect for how well BMW builds their convertibles and how well some women can drive them; or maybe just how fortunate some people are).

Anyway, it was seriously hot standing on the blacktop, backboarding and loading patients. In all fairness, however, our transport turned out to be worth standing in the heat for. She seemed in good spirits, considering what she'd been through, and was one of those calls that makes me glad I'm out there - unlike the pukers, the spitters, and the ones the cops have to handcuff. I hope everything turns out okay for her; she didn't deserve today.

She wanted us to tell her jokes en route to the hospital, but Coop and I couldn't come up with much more than some really bad "knock-knock" jokes - which, in my defense, he started.

Eh. Whaddya expect. We were both tired and didn't get to finish our donuts or cookies before getting toned out.

Besides, it was the third MVC in about as many hours.

And did I mention it was really hot?