WOOOO!!!
Just like in war times, I've been promoted "on the field" as ambulance team leader! Now when I am on night shift duty, I am the leader whenever we get on the ambulance, the decisions we take to save a life or generally help someone, are all mine. This makes me proud of course, but we all know what the good old neighbourhood Spider-Man says: "With great powers, come great responsibility". So, I hope I can be up for the task, but after three years of service, uhm, I think I can handle it.
How it happened? Well, the last two months have been a bit hard on my team (we work in teams, there's a dozen people in mine and we shift the duties on a weekly basis: you may be on the ambulance, or drive the doctors around, or just take the calls or be in the hq dispatching room). One civil servant quit, and even if she only answered phones and drove the doctors' car, she was rather helpful. Then a very good ambulance team leader asked to be moved to another team, one that only works on Sundays, because his father left him full control of their job (they build boats, of all things!) and he's also got a 2-yo baby, so he just wanted to quit doing nights. Then the father of the team leader (the one who's in charge of the whole team while we're not on the ambulance) died 2 weeks ago after a long illness, and then his wife's brother found himself ill too, so he's not having a good time lately, and he is not working as much as he used to, taking some deserved time off. And one of the other ambulance leaders is not as good as she used to be, either. So, that left just one full-time ambulance leader. Just one.... sheesh. Yesterday I got to the hq to handle my easy duty as dispatcher (this means that i'd get to sleep from 1am onwards, more or less!), but this last ambulance leader greeted me on the door with a bandaged left hand. He had an accident in the mroning. So, well, he simply told me i was going to be the ambulance leader for the night, and possibly for the whole next month. Wooooooo!
Great powers, great responsibilities, though. So i'll make sure to be careful, of course.
Some funny story about my night shift then...
Well, we have three new rookies too (I hope they can soon become ambulance leaders... uhm, ok, that would take at leasr a year and a half!), one of which is Vietnamese. His mother comes from Vietnam, so his features are pretty much Asian, but he was born and raised here in Milan, Italy. Now, keep in mind that I won't go as far as saying that Italy is a racist country, but most people are simply not used yet to intercultural interaction: people don't treat foreigners with disrespect, rather italians are often amused by their presence here (and then they greet them!).
So, well, we got out on a call for a woman who had fallen while skating (49 yo... very brave!), and she had hit her head. We got there and she told us she was just then regaining her sight, that for some time she had blacked out and could hear but not see (not a good sign... but it can be very temporary and with no lasting damages anyway, hope it'll be her case). So we prepared her for transport to the hospital. While on the ambulance, i was sitting behind her (she was on the gurny), while this rookie was talking to her, making her feel good on the way to the hospital. And she kept saying she was having problems focusing her eyes, that she didn't see too well, and things like that. We arrive at the hospital, and while the rookie goes to the triage area to register the patient, I get in front of the woman and she goes like "Oh my god, now that i'm at the hospital i see more clearly!". I begin telling her that probably the lighting is better and maybe she's feeling more safe too, but she interrupts saying: "On the ambulance i was having severe problems with my sight, everyone looked strange, looked japanese!".
LOL. Cue LOADS of laughs from the ones who got the joke/misunderstanding. The rookie laughed too. LOL. That was just too funny.
Uhm. I hope this overlong story made sense to you, dear reader. Or maybe I was the only one finding it funny? If that's the case, I apologize for wasting your time. LOL.
Aw, well, time to go cook something. Sorry for the long post. Sometimes, I just like telling a good story and get carried away.
ciao!
p.
Just like in war times, I've been promoted "on the field" as ambulance team leader! Now when I am on night shift duty, I am the leader whenever we get on the ambulance, the decisions we take to save a life or generally help someone, are all mine. This makes me proud of course, but we all know what the good old neighbourhood Spider-Man says: "With great powers, come great responsibility". So, I hope I can be up for the task, but after three years of service, uhm, I think I can handle it.
How it happened? Well, the last two months have been a bit hard on my team (we work in teams, there's a dozen people in mine and we shift the duties on a weekly basis: you may be on the ambulance, or drive the doctors around, or just take the calls or be in the hq dispatching room). One civil servant quit, and even if she only answered phones and drove the doctors' car, she was rather helpful. Then a very good ambulance team leader asked to be moved to another team, one that only works on Sundays, because his father left him full control of their job (they build boats, of all things!) and he's also got a 2-yo baby, so he just wanted to quit doing nights. Then the father of the team leader (the one who's in charge of the whole team while we're not on the ambulance) died 2 weeks ago after a long illness, and then his wife's brother found himself ill too, so he's not having a good time lately, and he is not working as much as he used to, taking some deserved time off. And one of the other ambulance leaders is not as good as she used to be, either. So, that left just one full-time ambulance leader. Just one.... sheesh. Yesterday I got to the hq to handle my easy duty as dispatcher (this means that i'd get to sleep from 1am onwards, more or less!), but this last ambulance leader greeted me on the door with a bandaged left hand. He had an accident in the mroning. So, well, he simply told me i was going to be the ambulance leader for the night, and possibly for the whole next month. Wooooooo!
Great powers, great responsibilities, though. So i'll make sure to be careful, of course.
Some funny story about my night shift then...
Well, we have three new rookies too (I hope they can soon become ambulance leaders... uhm, ok, that would take at leasr a year and a half!), one of which is Vietnamese. His mother comes from Vietnam, so his features are pretty much Asian, but he was born and raised here in Milan, Italy. Now, keep in mind that I won't go as far as saying that Italy is a racist country, but most people are simply not used yet to intercultural interaction: people don't treat foreigners with disrespect, rather italians are often amused by their presence here (and then they greet them!).
So, well, we got out on a call for a woman who had fallen while skating (49 yo... very brave!), and she had hit her head. We got there and she told us she was just then regaining her sight, that for some time she had blacked out and could hear but not see (not a good sign... but it can be very temporary and with no lasting damages anyway, hope it'll be her case). So we prepared her for transport to the hospital. While on the ambulance, i was sitting behind her (she was on the gurny), while this rookie was talking to her, making her feel good on the way to the hospital. And she kept saying she was having problems focusing her eyes, that she didn't see too well, and things like that. We arrive at the hospital, and while the rookie goes to the triage area to register the patient, I get in front of the woman and she goes like "Oh my god, now that i'm at the hospital i see more clearly!". I begin telling her that probably the lighting is better and maybe she's feeling more safe too, but she interrupts saying: "On the ambulance i was having severe problems with my sight, everyone looked strange, looked japanese!".
LOL. Cue LOADS of laughs from the ones who got the joke/misunderstanding. The rookie laughed too. LOL. That was just too funny.
Uhm. I hope this overlong story made sense to you, dear reader. Or maybe I was the only one finding it funny? If that's the case, I apologize for wasting your time. LOL.
Aw, well, time to go cook something. Sorry for the long post. Sometimes, I just like telling a good story and get carried away.
ciao!
p.
Del primo gruppo ho sentito solo un paio di pezzi, siamo arrivati tardi, ma non mi hanno fatto grande impressione. I Moonspell mi sono piaciuti, ma comunque anche se il cantante avesse avuto la tracheite, nessuno se ne sarebbe accorto perch non si sentiva un chezz...^_^ Infine, avrebbe anche potuto parlare nella sua lingua, forse si dimenticato di stare in Italia e che il 90% della gente non capiva un emerito di quello che diceva. Ok, anche vero che, qualsiasi cosa un cantante metal dica, le uniche risposte possibili sono le urla, ghghghghgh^_^
Be, anche se adesso ho la schiena a pezzi almeno mi sento scaricata di tutto lo stress^_^