Ok since I've been horrible at this a quick catch up. I think my favorite part of the internship is all the people we deal with. Everyone is so unique and interesting. The things people say and do just cracks me up. :) So one lady we picked up for heartburn was talking about how she had her grits for breakfast "country style." My preceptor knowing I"m not from the south mentioned how I probably didn't know what country style grits were, or grits for that matter. She looks at me in disbelief and disgust; in her southern country accent then says "You ain't never had grits before?" I respond with a smile "nope, never had em." Her jaw drops open! Then my preceptor says I've probably never had okra or fried green tomatos or something else, that I really don't know what he was tlaking about. This much information pushed her over the edge. She was going into shock. Not really, but she just started going off "You ain't never had grits or okra or...." I reply no. Then she just shakes her head, "mmm, you need to go to the store and buy some aunt jemima. Yep aunt Jemima is ma favorite grits. Hers are real good." She still can't get through her head that I've never had so much southern food so she starts asking about more food. "You ain't never had fried chicken?" I say I have had fried chicken. Still wondering she asks "You ain't never had pork?" I agian inform her that I"ve had pork. Then she tells me again to get some aunt jemima. :) She was funny.
Those of you've that have seen my hand writing will appreciate this. I hand my preceptor my sheet to sign and he looks at it and respons; "Holy S*** your writing. What's wrong wit you? You're a woman!" :) Yes I know that, thank you.
We went to a call for a lady who just needed help getting on the toilet to use it, then back in her bed. So we put her on the toilet and ask her if she'll need some more time, like if it's a #1 or #2, she replied "oh I just gotta deposit a quick one." Cute.
After dropping our patient off at the hospital another grady ambulance pulls up with a lady who was switching from asystole to NSR w/ pulse. So we stayed to watch them come in. She was fine in the ambulance, soon as they pulled her out she went into asystole again. The extra firefighter that was with them just jumped on one side of the cot standing and put one hand on the handle bar across from him and with his extra hand started chest compressions again. Then rolled them into the hospital like that. :) I'd never seen that so it was interesting to me.
We picked up a bum and took him the the hospital. Go on some more calls and after about 6 hours we see the same bum at the ambulance bay. He just needs a ride closer to home. So my preceptor allows him to catch a ride with us back to Grady. Tells him to make up something that's wrong with him and that when we got to Grady he was to walk in and say he doesn't want to be treated. We asked what the doctors had said about his illness from previously and anytime he would talk about what the "Doctors" said, he called them the "Ders" So he'd say "The ders told me I has pneumonia..." So funny!! :)
Another funny lady we picked up... She's sitting next to me on the bench and after doing our assessment and it's time to casual talk she looks at me and says "you're so pretty. You have a great smile." Few moments later "I like your size!" Once inside the hospital I"m standing with her and she just keeps repeating. "I just love your size. Must be real comfortable huh?" She was a little overweight with a cute southern accent. :) Love these people!
Finally picked up a patient that had "da shakes and da shivers!" :) When they said that I just smiled, since Dallen introduced us to the term. Glad I had one!
When we ask patients what hospital they want to go to they either refuse to go to grady, or they reply "Well Grady! I'm a grady baby! All my doctors at Grady, always go to Grady."
We've picked up lots of purely psychotic patients! So weird talking with them. One lady thought she'd been kidnapped and had to get back to the french consolate. She was smart tho. She would play with her words and with what we'd say to her. She was crazy.
There is one tall guy we've picked up twice now. Says he has a 19 yo wife.... he's 48. HIs name is George and I think he's developed a little crush on me. The second time we went to pick him up we were asking ppl if they called an ambulance and he said no. I smiled at him tho, cause I'd picked him up only a week prior. After I waved at him he perks up and says uh yes I did. So my preceptor says alright well let's get in the truck. I don't sit next to him this time, last time he kept touching me and almost threw his smelly jacket over my head b/c of the story he was telling. (he's very eccentric) So I sat at the captains chair this time. He told the same crazy stories about his favorite movies. In the hospital I avoided geting close to him, but it didn't work. He still walked up to me and said "I like you, I can trust you." Then proceeds to give me a side hug.. Blah! Gross!! Smelly guy, homeless... blah!
Everyone smells down here. Always a mixture of being homeless and not showering, not brushing teeth, drinking alcohol, and smoking. I wish I could capture their smell in a jar so people could understand what a REAL stink is. Crazy how they live wiht themselves.
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