careful what you wish for

Be careful what you wish for. I was just commenting to someone how quiet and almost calming today was. No big emergencies, just a couple of presentations with customers and a couple of usual boring marketing meetings. Just as I settle down in my comfy chair with a nice cold bottle of water and the classifieds (for a car not a personal), you guessed it.

Klaxons, alarms and the disembodied voice, “Attention all units, we have an AP with chest pain at ** location, please dispatch, code 3”. How we love and hate the sound of those tones. The adrenalin races, the heart pounds and your legs quiver in anticipation. It is the sound of excitement and also fear. Fear of a mistake costing a life. Oh sure probably being overly dramatic, but is it? Try telling your mind that as you drive furiously, but safely, to whichever location. Run in, try failingly to find the location knowing depending on the call time does matter, and of course the whole time carrying 40+ lbs of equipment. Next time you see a medic at a coffee shop drinking an extra strength triple cappuccino, its probably them just trying to work off a call.