"Thank you goes a long way.."

A guy called in a controlled burn this morning.. Before he hung up, he told me he appreciated me and thanked me for what I do... :) that makes me feel good.

New ink!

This was supposed to be posted 2 years ago, not sure why blogger drafted it! Sorry! Lately, I have been thinking about getting a new tattoo, and I finally followed through with it this past weekend. I wanted something to remind me of my sister, and that's what I got. I had been contemplating of a hummingbird with a halo, to a wolf, or butterfly. I wasn't 100% sure of what I wanted until I spontaneously walked in to a local tattoo shop. I have this now to always remind me of Jessica, no matter how far apart we are. It will help remind me of how strong she is and how hard she if fighting. I got it on my right foot, and the reasoning behind this is, Jessica has always been by my side, my right hand (wo)man. I walked in the shop and knew that this was it. Sink or swim. I gave them a few ideas and then came up with this. <a href="http://s33.photobucket.com/albums/d62/SexxyRedneck68/?action=view&amp;current=photo5.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d62/SexxyRedneck68/photo5.jpg" border="0" alt="11/27/10"></a>

A butterfly with the body of a cancer ribbon. I got it gray wash for brain cancer, and I don't this the picture does it justice. It turned out absolutely beautiful! :)

Learn to save a life

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Merry Christmas

Well, here it is Christmas Eve 2012... It's been a good while since I've posted. Life has its ups and downs and has been keeping us busy. We are excited about spending our first Christmas with our son. Thomas is 6 months old now and getting into everything but we wouldn't have it any other way!! The reason for my posting today... I really don't have the words for what I want to say but I want to try. This world.. I don't know what it's coming to. But, it hurts. A little over a week ago 18 children plus several adults were killed in a school shooting.. Today 2 firefighters were killed on a house fire that was intentionally set.. Another call in Texas a police officer was killed and now 6 children are being flown to a burn center because they were unsupervised and put gasoline on a fire. All this breaks my heart. I am not perfect. No one is. I don't want to point fingers or lay blame on anyone.. I just know this hurts me. All of it. All of this is close to my heart because I am now a mom and I work 911. This has to be the worst nightmare for any mother or father. And working in 911, the last thing we want to hear is our brothers or sisters hurt. I pray this country gets closer to God. I know I need to become closer. There are no excuses, all we can do is try better. Thats what he wants. If you're reading his.. go home and hug your family. Even if you're frustrated or stressed.. this may be the last time it happens.. You never know when our good Lord calls them home. God Bless you all. Rest in peace little angels and heroes. Merry Christmas.

Thank you Shutterfly!

I just ordered our family Christmas cards!!!

Photo Card

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We had the photos done yesterday and didn't get many that we liked but I did like these two!! Thomas is soo cute dressed up as Santa! I love my little family! This is the first year I'll be sending any out but I am super excited!!

Bit of a rant

People make me mad. I know I haven't posted much in a while and this is bit of a rant... but I just don't get it. I'm alive and breathing... breathing thru many different orifices because I have about 50 holes in my back. I don't know why but in a way I feel like I've been abandoned by a few people I thought were "friends". I've extended the hand in attempt to reconnect and it's been denied && well it hurts. I guess the main reason why is because I haven't realized what I did wrong. (if anything?)Ohhh but I'm sure I did something becauseeee people wouldn't just get a complete attitude and rude demeanor toward someone with NO apparent reason (sarcasm). I guess I just don't know how to deal with this internally and don't wanna hurt anyones feelings so I'm just ranting. People will come and go the true ones will stick around.

I really don't care anymore at this point. Thanks for reading.

Shots fired while working a scene...

Last night, I was working with my normal partner, we were pulling back into the station at around 2200hrs when Comm dispatched us to mutual aide a neighboring EMS/Fire agency on a roll over. Upon arrival with fire we find one Ford F150 rolled over onto the driver side in a pasture. We initially thought the patient was still in the vehicle but once we investigated we found that he was extricated himself thru the passenger door. The windshield was shattered, debris scattered everyone. A neighbor approaches us and related he was the one who called it in, he said the driver was drunk, climbed out of the vehicle and ran into the woods. The fire crew shined their flashlights into the woods when a voice began yelling "You'll never get my MFers!!" started laughing and yelling other explicit phrases. My partner and I were searching around thru the rubble looking for drug paraphernalia or evidence of alcohol when we saw a piece of paper stating that this patient was MHMR (Mental Health & Mental Retardation). There were several bystanders and neighbors at the scene giving us detail as to what happened and they slowly went back to their residences or left. PD and DPS arrived on scene and went to search for the patient in the woods. After about 30 minutes or so of looking in the woods they began searching nearby residences. Then all of a sudden we heard 5 gunshots in a row... We were monitoring SOs channel and one deputy said he heard gunshots and asking dispatch to do a roll call. My partner and I fled to our ambulance and advised our comm that shots were fired, and we would be staging until further notice.... (A sound like that will make you pucker anytime if you don't know who its from or where its going!) All deputy units were clear and they went to investigate the area some more. They met up with the property owner who advised he was out searching when he saw a snake and decided to shoot it. Bad idea dude. (Believe me, I am ALL about killing snakes.... but not when something like this is going on.. and 5 cops searching the area!! Also, if he had to shoot a snake 5 times, he must have some bad aim. LOL) I'm glad that that was all it was.. We only stayed on scene a few more minutes until we were cleared by DPS with no patient found.

That was the first time anything had ever happened to me like this. Still gives me the goose bumps thinking about it! Glad everyone was okay though, except for Mr. Copperhead!


Until next time, be safe out there.