I PASSED!!!

AH!!! Today was the best day of my life!!!! It was our National Practical Board Exam for EMT. I had to be there at 730... and I didn't leave til 430pm. LONG DAY! I was soooo nervous.. I sat there studying and praying my butt off the entire day! I first was called and went to do my traction splinting. I kept thinking to myself, "You got this! You know this backwards and forwards! Jed taught you this well! Don't freak out!" After each station I would go back through that paper to see if I missed anything. Then my second to last station I was called to do medical, and I walked in to see Jed there... MAN! Why did I have to get Jed?! He was sitting there with his cute smile, hot blue eyes, in Jeans and a duck's sweatshirt... Dang he looked fine... but I did it the best I could. Trauma was my last station, with a girl that I had no clue who she was, and she seemed like a hard grader, but I did it. Then we had to wait around for another hour, and then the head person called my name, took me in a room, and said, "You took 6 stations today, and...." waited literally like what seemed like 5 minutes.... "You passed all 6- congratulations. OMG- I jumped up and down, thanking her, and then almost hugged her. I ran out screaming! Thank you God! All 23 of us in my class passed, so we went out to celebrate. Oh today is the best day ever!

EMT, nothing is better than my Trauma

OH boy!!! This weekend was sooo much fun! Like, the best time this whole semester! It was our EMT mock accident on Saturday, where we were split into teams, went to a scene where it was a middle school lunch room, where there were stabbed victims, broken femurs, asthma attacks, eye balls hanging out, and much more... it was awesome! I've never had so much adrenalin pumping through my body. I was team lead, so I was incharge of my team, which was super cool. My main patient that I was with was a "14 year old male, stabbing to the abdomen". We did everything perfect, and loaded him almost all by ourselves. I'll tell you, the Paramedic that was playing the part of the boy was double mine and my partner's size, yet with all our adrenalin pumping, we were able to move him to a back board, lift that thing to our cot, and then move him quickly down the stairs and out to our ambulance. Then I ran back, was assertive so my teacher says, and just stuck myself in with another patient as mine "went to the hospital". It was AMAZING! I know that if and when I pass my test, I will just love this job! I'm sad that this semester is almost over, because I've made so many great friends from this class. I love all 23 of my classmates, and will miss them, but hopefully we keep in touch and are able to be in future classes together! They are truly some of the greatest people I've met here at BYUI.