Tomorrow is my first day of clinicals for EMT School.  I’m doing a ride along with a San Francisco ambulance company, which is great because it means I get to spend the night in SF with Earl!

The ride-along is from 5am-5pm.  Our instructor advised us to bring homemade cookies for our crew, so tonight my uncle helped me make two-dozen of these:

EMT Cookies

EMT Cookies

I’m pretty psyched, although it’s a bit hard to relax because then on Thursday we have our National Registry NREMT Skills Testing. Basically if you fail the skills test, you fail the entire course. Talk about stressful. The skills I think I need the most practice on right now are Medical Assessment and Trauma Assessment. Hopefully I’ll get those down before Thursday. I was practicing on a pillow last night. We heard a story about a guy from the last class who went out and bought a blow-up sex doll to practice his assessments on! Heh. I tried to do them on Linus but he wasn’t really interested in telling me about his SAMPLE History or letting me take lung sounds.

Oh, guess what else! Yesterday we learned how to deliver babies. Freaking awesome. Although the placenta is pretty gross. And apparently some patients like to save it and eat it! Aye!

I am fried from getting 4 to 5 hours of sleep a night for the past 11 days. Sorry if this post is incoherent. Will check back in soon!
XO,
C