Before you go on a call, you plan. You have trainings. En route to the call, scenarios run through your head. In EMS, it's all the different possibilities. Shortness of breath could be allergic reaction, asthma, cardiac related, musculoskeletal. . .anything. You run through the different treatments you may have to administer. In Firefighting, you're... Continue Reading →
Sitting at the station, I was updating the roster for the year with the Assistant Chief, talking about the applicants we've had over the last few years. Who has stuck around? Who has become an asset to the department? Who needs a little more one-on-one training? I made the comment that it would be awesome... Continue Reading →
This has been an odd year for gardeners in Northern Ohio! My first clue was when my onions failed to grow. I was growling at myself for being the first gardener in the history of the world to fail to grow onions when a patient who is a master gardener mentioned that her onions and... Continue Reading →
This winter, I was looking for new ideas for my flower garden. I searched for traditional German style gardens and came across the hugelkultur. The article I was reading was using it for a vegetable garden, but I did more research and found it would work on flowers too! While still debating on this project,... Continue Reading →
The last two weeks at my department's fire practice, we trained on firefighter survival using an obstacle course that has been one of my greatest dreads for the last three years. We typically conduct this training every three months, but for whatever reason, my officers decided we needed it two weeks in a row. For... Continue Reading →
Every 90's kid grew up hearing that smoking was bad for you even as we watched our older family members, for me it was my grandparents, continue to smoke. My first job was in a local restaurant that still had the smoking and non-smoking side. The waitress station was, of course, in the smoking section.... Continue Reading →
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