On Call

Call #1
This was a call in the city of Brandon, for a female having pregnancy problems. We arrived on scene to find a 23 y/o woman putting out her cig as we walked into her home. She said she was expierencing contractions ranging from 2 to 5 minutes apart. This was her second pregnancy with a chance of being high risk because of her smoking. Stated first child was in his room sleeping and boyfriend was still asleep and was staying there with the child.
Transported to area hospital.

Call #2
This was a call in the Reservoir area, male patient complaining of back pain. Patient was excercising when he felt a pop in his back. Patient laid down for the next two hours with weakness to his legs. We arrived at his house and patient said he tried to get in his friends car to go to hospital but was unalbe to.
Transported to area hospital.

Call #3
Recieved a call at Crossgates and I-20 for a drunk driver. BEING DRUNK IS NOT A MEDICAL CONDITION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We explained to the po-po on scene THAT BEING DRUNK IS NOT A MEDICAL CONDITION!!!!!!!!!!!!
Canceled call/police matter

Call #4
This was a call to a nursing home in the Brandon area for a person feeling upset to their stomach. What was upsetting about this call was our dispatch center asked us our location and we said where we were. It turned out to be 3 miles from the call. We passed another unit that was waiting for an emergency call, parked across the street from the nursing home. We politely called our dispatch and explained this to them, (without publicly calling the out on the radio) and they said we were still the unit to respond. We continued on (at this point the call was downgraded to non emergency, so there are no lights and sirens or response time) and when we saw the other unit, we stopped to say hello to them and asked if they thought they were closer to this call. They laughed and got on the radio and told the dispatcher that they had been across the street this entire time, and that the dispatcher should have asked them their location. They were nice enough to take the call for us.
Canceled due to closer unit.

Call #5
This was for a motor vehicle accident at Old Fannin and Hwy 25. We were canceled in route to this call.
Canceled by fire dept.

Call #6
Another MVC at the previous location. This was a two car accident involving 5 occupants. Only one person was injured and was complaining of shoulder pain from when he was hit on his drivers side door. The patient is in EMS and said he knew the procedure and would rather wait for his wife to come pick him up. We said we would allow him to do that, but we wanted to check him out just to make sure. Other than the shoulder pain that got better as we waited, there were no other complaints, and was a pleasure to talk to. We helped patient transfer his belongings from to his wifes vehicle.
Patient refusal.

Call #7
This was a call to the Ridgeland po-po department for a pregnant female complaining of pain. Patient stated that when she was arrested, the po-po pushed her up against her car stomach first and was now hurting. Stated she was due in april with her first child and just wanted to make sure everything was ok. Police released her from custody and we transported her to a the hospital to be checked out.
Transported to area hospital.

Call #8
A call to a nursing home in the Reservoir area at appx 2am for an elderly female who had fallen. When we arrived, we were told the patient had fallen 6 hours where she had been laying before she could reach a phone to call for help. She stated she was cold and was having severe hip pain. After examining her, there was no sign of a broken hip, but was bruising from where she had fallen. Along with the fire departments help, we picked her up off the floor and treated her in route to the hospital. She was very quiet on the ride in, but once we were in the ER, she started screaming about the pain she was in and wanted to pain medicine. We told the doctor this was the first time she was presented like this.

This was our day. It sucked. For the year so far, 11 calls, 5 patient transports, 6 cancelations.