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Sorry For....

Sorry if we woke you in the middle of the night, but someone in your neighborhood is fighting for his life. Sorry if we block the road and make you turn around, but there's been a bad wreck. When you see us coming I hope you'll understand, let us have the right of way, someone needs our helping hand. Sometimes a child is choking, sometimes a broken leg. Sometimes a heart stops beating, and when we get there its too late. So if you see us crying when we think we're alone, you'll know we had a bad one, and we're feeling mighty down. We don't do it for the glory, but for a life that might be saved. Somewhere deep within us our souls are crying out, we're here to help our neighbors in their hour of pain and doubt. God gave us something special to help us see you through, we do it 'cause we love you, and care about you too. Please show your support for EMTs, paramedics, firefighters and police officers !!!!

I Wish You Could

I wish you could comprehend a wife's horror at 3:00 in the morning as I check her husband of forty years for a pulse and find none . . . I start CPR anyway, hoping to bring him back knowing intuitively it is too late but wanting his wife and family to know everything possible was done to try to save his life. I wish yo...u could understand how it feels to go to work in the morning after having spent ...most of the night, out on jobs. I wish you could know my thoughts as I help extricate a teenage girl from the remains of her automobile. "What if this was my sister or a friend?" "What are her parents' reactions going to be when they open the door to find a police officer with hat in hand?" I wish you could feel the hurt as people verbally and sometimes physically abuse us or belittle what we do or as they express their attitudes of "It will never happen to me." I wish you could realize the physical, emotional and mental drain of missed meals, lost sleep and forgone social activities in addition to all the tragedy my eyes have seen. I wish you could know the sister and brotherhood and self-satisfaction of having saved a life or being able to be there in time of crisis. I wish you could understand what it feels like to have a little boy tugging at your arm asking, "Is Mommy okay?" not even being able to look in his eyes without tears from your own and not knowing what to say. Unless you have lived with this kind of life you will never truly understand or appreciate who I am, who we are, or what our job really means to us ...I wish you could though.

 

We're Not Trying to Make You Mad...

That police officer that you called a jerk for writing you a ticket, just spent 3 hours on the scene of a wreck where a drunk driver killed a family of four. Those firefighters that you're mad at for shutting down the road, just pulled a grandfather out of a burning house. Those paramedics and EMTs that you think are driving too fast, are doing CPR on a two year old that didn't make it. We work hurt, sick, hungry, and tired. We are continuously asked to do more with less and we do it with a smile on our face. Why? Because we love what we do but most importantly, because we care. Think about that before you bash your public safety members. We are here for you.

Please Remember....

EMTs are scorned for not getting to your house fast enough, yet they are holding their bladder because they don't have time to use the restroom. They are starving because they missed lunch 3 calls ago...or even worse they haven't had anything since they left their house at 5:30 am...it's now 10pm. They have been peed on, puked on, bled on, YELLED AT & are missing their family while taking care of yours. They may even be crying for you or the life they could not save. In the minute you read this, EMS professionals all over the world are saving lives.

When God Made EMS Providers...

When the Lord made EMT's and Paramedics, he was into his sixth day of overtime when an angel appeared and said, "You're doing a lot of fiddling around on this one."

And the Lord said, "Have you read the specs on this order? An EMS provider has to be able to carry an injured person up a wet, grassy hill in the dark, dodge stray bullets to reach a dying child unarmed, enter homes the health inspector wouldn't touch, and not wrinkle their uniform."

"They have to be able to lift 3 times their own weight, crawl into wrecked cars with barely enough room to move, and console a grieving mother as they are doing CPR on a baby they know will never breathe again."

"They have to be in top mental condition at all times, running on no sleep, black coffee and half-eaten meals. And they have to have six pairs of hands."

The angel shook her head slowly and said, "Six pairs of hands...no way."

"It's not the hands that are causing me problems," said the Lord, "It's the three pairs of eyes a medic has to have."

"That's on the standard model?" asked the angel.

The Lord nodded. "One pair that sees open sores as they're drawing blood and asks the patient if they may be HIV positive," (when they already know and wish they'd taken that accounting job.) Another pair here in the side of the head for their partners' safety. And another pair of eyes here in front that can look supportively at a frightened person and gently explain that their spouse of many years has departed this life."

"Lord," said the angel, touching his sleeve, "rest and work on this tomorrow."

"I can't," said the Lord, "I already have a model that can talk a 250 pound drunk out from behind a steering wheel without incident and feed a family of five on a private service paycheck."

The angel circled the model of the medic very slowly, "Can it think?" she asked.

"You bet," said the Lord. "It can tell you the symptoms of 100 illnesses; recite drug calculations in its sleep; intubate, defibrillate, medicate, and continue CPR nonstop over terrain that any doctor would fear...and still it keeps its sense of humor. This medic also has phenomenal personal control. He can deal with a multi-victim trauma, coax a frightened elderly person to unlock their door, comfort an assault victim's family, and then read an article in the daily paper about responders being too slow to locate a house (a house which had no street sign and no house numbers.)"

Finally, the angel bent over and ran her finger across the cheek of the medic. "There's a leak," she pronounced. "I told you that you were trying to put too much into this model."

"That's not a leak," said the Lord, "It's a tear."

"What's the tear for?" asked the angel.

"It's for bottled-up emotions, for patients they've tried in vain to save, for commitment to that hope that they will make a difference in a person's chance to survive, for seeing an accident victim walk again, for the family time they will miss while serving the community, for life."

"You're a genius," said the angel.

The Lord looked somber. "I didn't put it there," He said.

What Do You Make?

"Oh.. you're a EMT?? That's cool. I wanted to do that when I was a kid.
What do you make?"
"WHAT DO I MAKE??
I make holding your hand seem like the biggest thing in the world when I'm cutting you out of a car. I can make 5 minutes seem like a lifetime when I go in a burning house to save your family. I make those annoying sirens seem like angels when you need them. I can make your children breathe when they stop. I can make you survive a heart attack. I make myself get out of bed at 3am to risk my life to save people I've never met. Today I might make the ultimate sacrifice to save your life.
I MAKE A DIFFERENCE
WHAT DO YOU MAKE?"


On the matter of being pro choice

This is for those that are in favor of it.

This bothers me when people say they are pro choice. There is a BIG problem with this this statement because for example I was almost aborted and I did not have a choice. No one asked me what I wanted. So where is the choice in this for me. I was a human being just not born yet as well as my mother is but because I was not able to speak for myself I was not allowed to have a choice in the matter. They knew that I was likely to be very severally disabled due to my mother catching Rubella in the second month pregnancy and because of this the issue of abortion came up. I wish people would think more about this from the perspective of the child that is not being give a choice. I am glad I got to live and be able contribute to society and have an impact on people. Examples of my contributions to society are: I can build computers, fix computers and I have been able to help many people with computer problems in including individuals and businesses. Speaking of computer issues, currently I am an EMT and I also work with my city's 911/EMS system to help keep all the computers working and communicating with each other. I am a supervisor here on WIkiAnswers and have been able to answer peoples questions and help keep the site organized. I am also a website designer and have had the opportunity to build websites for many people, businesses and organizations. There is not telling what accomplishments aborted children might have made in their lives and in the lives of other people if they were given a chance to live. If you don't want the baby, why can't people just have the baby and put it up for adoption. There are many families that would love to give these children a chance in life.






















For all of you Tagaloggers, please use your own site.
It was created just for you.
Matthew (Brave3) said he needed a blimp to send to the Philippines to let them know we have a site just for them because there are still tons of Tagalog questions on the English site. So I built one for him. :)

























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Thanks HisPowr4U for this cool birthday gator. November 20, 2009



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Me in my WikiAnswers T-shirt that I won in the May 2009 AnswerThon!























This is a cool question with a cool answer that answers the age old question about the Bible versions that existed prior to the KJV.

















http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Which bibles preceded the King James Version&updated=1&waNoAnsSet=2




My Mug Shots

Your oh so professional WikiAnswers Supervisor goofing off on a kiddie slide at the mall

Taken at Cabello's Sporting Goods Phoenix AZ Oct 2007

A cool hat I got at a concert

One of my favorite verses in the Bible. Also one of my favorite pictures.

My dog Angel laying on the front porch on a hot West TX day.

Christmas Texas style

Purple is my favorite color but this is just plain sickening
=== Boy, does she love me or what??? ===
=== Not only does she love me. === === === I love her and she is SOOOOO CUTE!!!
The picture above is my favorite picture of my cute dog Angel.
The one below is another favorite.

Top: Angel sitting on MY pillows with her toys
Middle: Wonder who will win this stare down
Bottom: Will someone come pet me??
=== Some really adorable animal pictures ===
Top: A goat that I saw at the Vets office
Second: Angel saying hi to the goat.

Rocky, my neighbor's dog resting on my porch steps
Rocky got run over on 6/7/09 one hour prior to me posting this information.
The person that did this did not even stop. My neighbor found him in the street and she found him dead with a crushing head wound. He was only 7 months old.

Baby gecko found in my yard