08/02/2026
I find it so weird that I can be totally calm during major trauma/medical calls and at the hospital have Nurses, Doctors and Surgeons listen to me and can give a comprehensive report on what is wrong, what I've done and everything else. But when nights like tonight when Dad is actively having a stroke, or my sister who's in anaphylactic shock and can't breathe or my mother who we just got out of cardiac arrest and is now in respiratory distress I can't. I get jittery, panic, and I'm all over the place trying to explain what's going on. Sometimes it's even to doctors and nurses who I've given these reports to. Unless it's actively treating them or working on them everything from my training goes out the window when it's family. Any of my fellow EMS friends have you ever experienced something like this?
