101/1001 Update
Aug. 30th, 2021 10:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grim23Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves, and to save all those who rely upon you. You have only to go right on, and at the end of the road, be it short or long, victory and honor will be found. - Winston Churchill
Body/Martial Arts/Physical Improvement/Testing Myself: I showed up for my monthly shift at the Fire Station and was sent home after the morning meeting when one of the professional firefighters (unvaccinated!) at the meeting found out that they tested positive for COVID-19. Although I had low contact with him during the hour and a half I was at the station, and a BinaxNOW COVID-19 Antigen Test was negative, I will treat this as an exposure and I will socially quarantine. This was unfortunate, as this situation means that the department will be even more short-staffed (we already had a wildland firefighter crew and HB481 deployed), an entire shift was exposed, and now a moratorium on volunteers.
Mind/Spirit/Centering/Health: I've completed Medical Emergencies: CPR, Toxicology, and Wilderness from the University of Colorado, and before the 7-day 'free trial' ran out. It was a good review of cardiology (shock, cardiac arrest/CPR), toxicology (poisons, substances of abuse, psychiatric/behavioral), environmental (snakebite, temperature injuries, lightning strikes, drowning, high altitude sickness, and special situations), and medical emergencies (digestive, renal, genital, abdominal, and blood disorders). Goal complete!
Maintenance/Shit Got To Be Done: No progress.
In Case of Zombies/Disaster Preparation: I completed my last class of the online Street Medicine Series, the ALS 12-Lead EKGs class that was combined with the ALS STEMI (ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction) class. A STEMI is the most severe type of heart attack where an artery supplying blood to the heart suddenly becomes partially or completely blocked by a blood clot and requires fast assessment and treatment, with procedures well above my scope of practice - but again, if I know what the paramedics and cardiac techs are doing, I can be more helpful.
Base Station/Ol' Number 3: Excavation and installation of the septic system will be restarted in the next few weeks. I hope to have the Gate House and the Pump House painted by then.
Travel/Adventure/Doing Stuff: Several days before my firefighter shift, we went to a very sparsely attended and undersold outdoor concert to see The Black Crowes, for their 30-year Anniversary of 'Shake Your Money Maker' Tour, with Dirty Honey opening for them. They were off for the whole show, for a disappointing performance. Some folks left early. We were masked when we were in public and maintained more than 50 feet of social distance during the concert from the next set of folks in the outdoor amphitheater, sitting on the back lawn.
Body/Martial Arts/Physical Improvement/Testing Myself: I showed up for my monthly shift at the Fire Station and was sent home after the morning meeting when one of the professional firefighters (unvaccinated!) at the meeting found out that they tested positive for COVID-19. Although I had low contact with him during the hour and a half I was at the station, and a BinaxNOW COVID-19 Antigen Test was negative, I will treat this as an exposure and I will socially quarantine. This was unfortunate, as this situation means that the department will be even more short-staffed (we already had a wildland firefighter crew and HB481 deployed), an entire shift was exposed, and now a moratorium on volunteers.
Mind/Spirit/Centering/Health: I've completed Medical Emergencies: CPR, Toxicology, and Wilderness from the University of Colorado, and before the 7-day 'free trial' ran out. It was a good review of cardiology (shock, cardiac arrest/CPR), toxicology (poisons, substances of abuse, psychiatric/behavioral), environmental (snakebite, temperature injuries, lightning strikes, drowning, high altitude sickness, and special situations), and medical emergencies (digestive, renal, genital, abdominal, and blood disorders). Goal complete!
Maintenance/Shit Got To Be Done: No progress.
In Case of Zombies/Disaster Preparation: I completed my last class of the online Street Medicine Series, the ALS 12-Lead EKGs class that was combined with the ALS STEMI (ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction) class. A STEMI is the most severe type of heart attack where an artery supplying blood to the heart suddenly becomes partially or completely blocked by a blood clot and requires fast assessment and treatment, with procedures well above my scope of practice - but again, if I know what the paramedics and cardiac techs are doing, I can be more helpful.
Base Station/Ol' Number 3: Excavation and installation of the septic system will be restarted in the next few weeks. I hope to have the Gate House and the Pump House painted by then.
Travel/Adventure/Doing Stuff: Several days before my firefighter shift, we went to a very sparsely attended and undersold outdoor concert to see The Black Crowes, for their 30-year Anniversary of 'Shake Your Money Maker' Tour, with Dirty Honey opening for them. They were off for the whole show, for a disappointing performance. Some folks left early. We were masked when we were in public and maintained more than 50 feet of social distance during the concert from the next set of folks in the outdoor amphitheater, sitting on the back lawn.
