Since Kaiser won’t test me until Thursday, I tried to go and get tested yesterday at Cal State East Bay. They have a free COIVD testing center. I got there right when they opened at 9AM. Huge mistake. The line of cars went all the day down this steep hill (Carlos Bee) and wrapped around […]
Read more "Possible COVID day 2"Yesterday I went swimming in Foster City for 1hr an 18min. Just pure freestyle swimming for almost 2 miles. I guess they dye the water to give it a color and theres is a lot of duck poo everywhere. During my swim I certainly inhaled at least 2 mouthfuls of water. Yuck! When I came […]
Read more "Possible COVID?"After I typed my post yesterday, we ran a planned home childbirth, that didnt go as planned. We were the second crew in and we took mom while the first crew took baby. Mom was find, plugged a line and gave her some fluids. Today, at our normal post at Marina and Teagarden all the […]
Read more "015"Im my second day of work out of 4 this week. The EMT class at Chabot has open back up so I’m working there as an instructor one day a week as well. yesterday we had two possible COVID patients, out of 4 transports. Today has been pretty much the same. The riots started on […]
Read more "014"Today was busy. 6 calls. Cmed was non-stop. The people want the county reopened. I have seen birthday partys and gatherings with no one wearing any type of masks. COVID will spread like wildfire. The political climate will further divide until its boiling point. In my area, there has been a sharp increase in gun […]
Read more "Turning point"The wife wanted to go hiking and it was my turn to pick a hike. Im embarrassed to admit I had activated this peak in 2017 and forgot to log it. Dont worry, all contacts will be logged this time. I had been here in August with beautiful wildflower blooming and a few people hiking […]
Read more "Snow hike/activation of Castle Peak W6/SN-038"At home I was able to install FLDIGI on my mac and connected it to the MCHF and made 1 contact on it. So I decided to try and take it out for a SOTA activation. It went ok. The timing clock was slightly off and I need to fix that. I also had […]
Read more "FT8 SOTA Rocky Ridge w6/nc-268"Shifts 4/18- 4/21 Average 4 to 5 calls. Heard multiple codes dropping but we didn’t get any of them. I think it was Tuesday we were detailed to the Radission and Comfort inn. Comfort being COIVD hotel for homeless. We were tasked by the county MD to get a census update on how many people […]
Read more "013"1:30pm- Im at the tail end of my 3 day tour this week. The first day we had a code on a 44yo dude who didn’t make it. Asystole pretty much the whole time. A few possible COVIDS that day. Yesterday was relatively uneventful. Accept yesterday we were dispatched code 2 for cardiac arrest because […]
Read more "012"09:30am- Should have written his while ago, just now had the time to sit down and give an update. My last tour was pretty busy. 4-5 calls per shift. Not all of them critical. But at least 1 COVID patient per shift. Sometimes more. Gateway Nursing home in Hayward had an outbreak. I remember taking […]
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