Wii Little Lily

We broke down and bought a Wii a couple of weeks ago. As you can tell, everyone is getting into the game...

Morning Visitors

Just about every morning we can see deer from our back windows.

Most of the time there are 5, but we have seen as many as 12

They seem to be as curious about us as we are of them.

This morning, they were all staring intently at something off to the left. After a few minutes, they all bounded away and Gateway, our blalck and white cat came wandering in from the woods where they had been staring.

A Day At The Park

Lily, Isaac and Katie at Lake Monticello

Lily loves to swing

Gramma likes the warm weather

Can you find the squirrel in this picture?

A Weekend Trip To Utah

I took a quick trip to Utah over the weekend. I got to visit with my parents, all 5 of my sisters (especially my sister Ann) and Crystal, Ryan and Cassia. I drove around Salt Lake City and took a few pictures of some of the old places.

Where my parents have lived since 1962

The Cabana Club swimming pool, where I spent every summer day - developing skin cancer

Gramma Larabbee's house on Park Street

1218 Emerson Avenue, the first home I remember

Westminster College, my alma mauter

A Winter Wonderland

We had snow last night, making the house and yard look wonderful.

Too bad it also collapsed the dog kennel.

Parker came to visit

We watched the movie Cars, built a better mouse trap and went fishing.

It's better than sleeping at night...

About 5 years ago, I took the advice of a good friend and enrolled in an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) class. The first night, they showed a video of an ambulance rolling up on the scene of an accident. There were flashing lights and radio chatter and I said to myself, "I can do this". It took me a year to get certified, but I have now run hundreds of calls with the Madison Country Rescue Squad.

When we moved to Lake Monticello, I moved my membership to the Lake Monticello Volunteer Rescue Squad.

Last night (or was it early this morning), we got a call for a 37 year old asthma patient having difficulty breathing. Before we got there, dispatch radioed that he was now unresponsive and not breathing. When we got there, he was not breathing and had no pulse. We started CPR and inserted an airway tube while the medics installed an intraosseous device (into the marrow of his leg), which is faster than starting an IV. They pushed the regimine of cardiac and pulmonary drugs. We continued CPR. After 40 minutes, the medic said that he was going to call it if we did not have a pulse in 5 more minutes.

As we paused the CPR, we detected a pulse, faint and irregular, but it was definately a pulse. The medic set the EKG for pacing and we called for the helicopter to be launched. The helicopter had been on standby through all of this, but we are not allowed to launch it unless we have a pulse.

We moved the patient to the ambulance and then drove to the landing zone. Before we loaded him into the helicopter, he had a stable heart rate, decent blood pressure, was opening his eyes and moving his head.

I don't know if he will make it, he was down for a long time, but I love being an EMT when I can help make a difference.