Saturday, August 12, 2006
More Fun & Butterflies
This week has been very interesting. It started on Sunday evening when we got called out to look for a missing 89 year old gentleman with Alzheimers in Aberdeen. We did hasty searches in all of the likely travel routes until about 3:30 a.m. We resumed about 9:00 a.m. with thorough searches by sending out teams ot 4-5 into 2 block areas. The man was found at noon sitting in someone's back yard about 3/4 mi. from his home. He was checked out at the hospital for dehydration among other things and was O.K.
On Tuesday evening went to a 3 hour talk on hurricane preparedness. It was given by the National Weather Service and Moore County Emergency Management. It was very interesting and informative.
On Friday afternoon I just returned from my 1/2 mi. swim when my pager went off for "chest pains". I was soaking wet but put my jump suit on over my wet bathing suit and we helped prepare and load the patient into the paramedic ambulance. On the way back, we got a second call for a diabetic emergency. Went to that one and monitored the patient until a second paramedic unit arrived to transport her. Just got back home and took my jump suit off when beep-beep-beep. Sick call. We responded, evaluated the patient, and decided that we would transport, BLS. Had him loaded and we got another call for minor auto accident. The original paramedic unit was returning from the hospital and they were able to handle that call without us. So, I wandered around in a wet bathing suit for about 3 hours - yuk! It sure felt good to get into dry clothes.
Today, we had a Palmedes Swallowtail show up in our back yard. They are quite rare in this area.
On Tuesday evening went to a 3 hour talk on hurricane preparedness. It was given by the National Weather Service and Moore County Emergency Management. It was very interesting and informative.
On Friday afternoon I just returned from my 1/2 mi. swim when my pager went off for "chest pains". I was soaking wet but put my jump suit on over my wet bathing suit and we helped prepare and load the patient into the paramedic ambulance. On the way back, we got a second call for a diabetic emergency. Went to that one and monitored the patient until a second paramedic unit arrived to transport her. Just got back home and took my jump suit off when beep-beep-beep. Sick call. We responded, evaluated the patient, and decided that we would transport, BLS. Had him loaded and we got another call for minor auto accident. The original paramedic unit was returning from the hospital and they were able to handle that call without us. So, I wandered around in a wet bathing suit for about 3 hours - yuk! It sure felt good to get into dry clothes.
Today, we had a Palmedes Swallowtail show up in our back yard. They are quite rare in this area.
# posted by Bob @ 8/12/2006 04:50:00 PM 
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So I'm looking at your butterfly pictures and for some reason the thought of Rufus's crayfish popped into my head...I'm wondering if we took the wings of one of your butterflies...and taped 'em on to a crayfish, what kind of critter we'd have: A crayfly? Butterdad? Crawfly? Butterfish? Hmm...bet Rufie would still roll in it, no matter what it looked like or what you'd call it. (After all, it'd still smell the same!) So much for Zoology Professor Popma-Kowalski's musings.
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