Ouch

We did several routine transports today. Mostly psychs.

Our first priority call was for a 20 y/o male who was cutting a box at work with a box cutter and the box cutter slipped. He put it right into his eyeball. Yuck. You really couldn't see too much, but what you could see was that his eye was cut diagonally almost right through the center, and his pupil was anything but normal. We drove on a priority to a trauma hospital 60 miles away so he could get into a surgeon.

We did a BLS MRI.

Then another priority-a woman in labor. She was 38 weeks pregnant with her bag of waters still intact. She didn't speak English, and I don't speak much Spanish, so it was an interesting call trying to understand each other. She was only 19. After we got her to the hospital and a Spanish-speaking nurse was found, we were told that she was only having one contraction an hour. I don't know, but she seemed like she was in a lot of pain the whole time she was with us. Oh well.

Shorness of breath at a home address. Nothing extremely interesting. He called us because he didn't want to go to the closest hospital. All his vitals checked out, and it was pretty much another routine transport.

Our first psych of the evening was a 24 y/o girl that tried to commit suicide-she cut her arm across her AC and another cut across her hand. She was upset because her aunt took her car and sold it for drugs. The girl had just been released from a 7 year sentence in prison and was on house arrest. She ran away once at the hospital, but was tracked down by the police and brought back.