back from vacation

As you may have gathered from my post last night, I have returned from vacation with Heather. I don't feel like going into details, but it was a good time. I did get to do two things which I've always wanted to do - swim with dolphins and ride a Segway. Both were pretty much everything I expected. For your viewing pleasure, I've attached pictures of both.

Today, I spent another day at the firehouse. My first core rotation is psych at Spring Grove, starting in 2 weeks, and I actually got a medic run there today. And, surprisingly, it was a pretty decent run! Usually, we get a lot of BS calls out of Spring Grove. But, today, we were sent to take care of a woman with a BP of 250/140, which is probably the highest I've ever seen on the medic. She was also complaining of the worst headache of her life, blurry vision, and dizziness, which are all not particularly good signs...especially if strokes are not your thing. Unfortunately, there wasn't much to do for her than get her off to St. Agnes (another hospital where I'll be spending quite a while in rotations) quickly. Tomorrow, yet another rough day of sleeping late and doing whatever comes to mind at the time.