flight 015

I sat peacefully catching up on paperwork at about 10:30pm on the 4th of July. The flight radio squawks and I only catch pieces of it. [static]…”there’s been an explosion…the building is on fire”…[static]. The shrill call out tones for life flight dispatch send shivers down my spine (and since my surgery, […]

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Flight 014

0600 Single car MVC, rollover, partial ejection. The 20 something male driver was found face down in the dirt halfway out the driver’s side window. We landed in the corn field right next to the accident, where firefighters & EMTs were still trying to wash the mud out of his eyes. […]

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Flight 013

Retrieval at a tiny rural ED north of us about 15 minutes by air. 15 year old boy found unresponsive at home after complaing of a headache the night before. Head bleeds in 15 year olds are rare, but overdoses on Uncle Billy’s Percocet’s aren’t. He had the highest tylenol level I’ve […]

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Back in the Saddle

My 2 month “grounding” period from the helicopter is over, and I accumulated 3 flights in 4 shifts…I like those numbers!
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