911 knocks...who is it!!!

I know that we don't typically take the time to think about who would respond to our residence should we become ill or injured. I also know that we typically say that we want everybody that we teach to be able to respond to our house to handle our family, but we never think it is going to happen to us.

Really, think about it!!! Who would you want responding to your house if you were suffering from an acute myocardial infarction. I know that there are many great EMS educators out there, and I am sure there are some out there that are better than I am so do I need my students to respond to me and my family. Well, I am not sure, but in a recent situation I was certainly glad to come up on a family members house only to see 2 of the responders were graduates from a program I helped teach, another was a close friend and assistant instructor for my classes and now adjunct faculty for me and I knew my grandmother was in good hands.

Tonight is going to be a extremely short post, and mainly a post setting up a future conversation. Think about who you would really like to have work on you in the event of a medical illness or traumatic injury.

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