the heart of the matter

at drill last night Jackie Ahrens, newly returned to the fold as an EMT, showed a picture of a tumor removed from her stepdaughter's ovary.  It weighed 32 pounds or more.  It looked like a giant heart.  It took nine years for the daughter to be diagnosed.
Eventually we got the gurney out of the ambulance but it nearly collapsed on itself and at that point I was furious with Diane for number one not assisting and telling me 'I should be doing this' and number two, careles and disrespectul conduct while on a call.  The gurney collapsed with a patient on board who was making comments about the way Diane andi were interacting and saying something it was better entertainment than the soaps.  The office manager of the ER was present by then and we were all trying to disengage the gurney and get the patient inside and I told Diane that I was sick and tired of her always needling staff on a call and that it needed to stop.  I said that I asked for assistance in getting the patient indoor and that the gurney was not responding and we would need all the help we could get.  For her to stand there and harass me when i was already having troubles unloading the gurney did help the situation and she needed to back off and be quiet.  The office manager of the Forks ER said that this wasinappropriate behavior and I said I don't care, I'm tired of her always bullying staff on a call and it needs to stop.  I also thought privately that I wasn't being paid to serve as an EMT helper/ambulance driver and I had nothing to lose by standing up to Dian

what to do aout 'the bugger'

quite an interesting series of events happened yesterday, lke a ticking timbom they finally exploded.  I'm talking about Diana Leiza and the ambulance runs.  Inevitably, when we both turn up for the call at the fire department, she's always got to through her weight around, which is considerable.  I've got to put down my wingflaps and keep my trap shut so she can maneuver herself through the experience of rescuing someone in need.
Yesterday there was a car accident on the Burnt MOuntain road.  I was in a meeting at the SEkiu Center and getting paid for janitorial work for the month of October.  I was taking the minutes for the meeting as I am secretary for the West End YOuth and Community Club.  The radio I carry went off and I asked KIm Bowlby to take over the secretarial duties.  I packed up my stuff, we had been at Messy Palettes art group prior to this and I was crocheting a throw out of beautiful yard from Laurel Sadilek Burtness, whose mother was a member of St. Thomas Church and a good friend of my parents.  Well, I say good friend but Louise Sadilek was awfully pushy, kind of like Diane but in a less forceful way.  Diane pushes too hard always.  I can't believe she was Special Ed teacher for so long and saying 'they want her back', like hell, I'll bet.
I decided to keep the dogs in the car while I was at the accident becaue we needed to be there quick and they'd been fed, watered and exercised so they were good for as long as it took and sometimes it doesn't take that long.  When i realized that we'd be transporting a patient I ,called Teresa on the radio and asked her to take my dogs home, only Trish intercepted and asked 'what's up'.  I gave her the message and told her we were enroute to Forks assoon as Diane got the patient bungled up, it seemed to take her forever to buckle him in, finally she said he was packaged.  The cop told me the guy had been soliciting and the woman he solicited was escorted from the scene by another makah.  She was makah.  I didn't recognize the patient and they got the woman out of the way real quick.  She was gone before we even got out of the rigs.
We got to the scene and the car was upside down in the ditch heading towards Clallam Bay.  There were two police one local county one state patrol.  There were no traffic signs up and the actual traffic was all over the place.  I couldn't see the driver being escorted to the ambulance but did see the police quickly remove the woman in question and so comment was made on that to me by the county cop.  he looked like one of the hull boys, guy's kid sandy if he weren't messed up on drugs.  He said the driver had ben arrested prior times for soliciting, he couldn't think of th eword I supplied it because we did have a house on 14th and T in DC and that was the most notorious place for prostitution and the heroin trade and now it's a million dollar residence and all cleaned up.
anyways, the gy was put into the back of the ambulance at the back door and diane set about checking his vitals,e tc. and then I was told to get the rig out of the way at the next turn out because traffic was burgeoning and we were setting up flaggers.  I was prepared to take off and Diane calls out 'wait wait I'm not ready, don't leave yet...typical of her but you see I'm the one who has to bein charge and she's browbeaten me for so long I just can't navigate that way because she's taken it out of me.