THE BACK OF THE MEDIC

Athletes and medical conditions

29 October 2009

Anyone who has a significant medical condition will tell you a story or two of how they (or someone they know/knew) had an issue with their condition, and couldn’t relate that to the EMS/Fire/Police/First Responder that came to their aid. In some cases, the results have been tragic. Someone at some point created necklaces and [...]

Toddlers and Surgery (or… Adventures with my grandson’s eye surgery)

19 October 2009

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Today was another pediatric learning day for me. My 3-1/2 year old grandson had strabissmus eye correction surgery. We prepared him as best we could ahead of time, including allowing any and all questions. I was surprised at the caliber of his questions: Are they taking my eyes out? Will I see? Will they cut [...]

The Storm

14 October 2009

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Today, California got hit by a rare October storm. This storm had a lot of energy from a super typhoon that hit Japan last week, and it dumped a lot of rain today on our state. As many of you know, I live in the Sacramento region, in Northern CA. We got nailed. Trees down, [...]

Wow… its October!

5 October 2009

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I’ve been running around like crazy lately. So much, that October 1rst hit, and I didn’t realize it. It finally really hit me Sunday night (Yeah, the 4th) that, wow, this is October already. Just over a week ago, temps were over 100. Now, they are barely in the 70′s. Of course, they will go [...]