A busy day on the Ragil

This morning I was riding solo because Daniel moved to work at a different station in Israel and Emily took the day off to go visit some friends. When I got to the station I went with Anas to check the Ragil. We went through each part of the ambulance and checked the quality and the expiration date on each of the items. 8 airways, 2 of each kind. Check. Ambu pump. Check. Cardiopump. Check. Bandages. Check. Etc.

After checking the ambulance I settled into my bed in the volunteer room waiting for a call. No calls came in but Simon, another volunteer came in, his bus ride was a little bit of an adventure but he got here. So we both settled in for a morning nap waiting for a call. A call came in for an Atan and we decided Simon would take the Atan calls and I would take the Ragil calls. The Atan call seemed to get canceled so we went back to the waiting.

My first Ragil call was to go and assist another ambulance but on the way we were canceled. When I got back I chatted with Simon and Barak. Barak is working through a paramedic program and I met him the other day when his program was taking a practical and written exam at the station. He was really fun to talk with, we talked about education, how to raise kids and the like.

The next call was to a man who wasn't feeling well and so we took him to the hospital, later in the day we were back and we saw him again and it looked like he was getting ready to leave the hospital.

We then got back to the station and I had enough time to eat a little bit and then it was off to the next call. This time we met a car on the side of the road, the patient was feeling weak and wanted to be transported to the hospital. We transferred her after having to wait for a bed to open up in the ER, must have been a busy day. When we almost were to pull into the station we got another call. This time to what looked like an assisted living center. Once we found the location of the patient, we loaded him and what I think was a nurse from the center. She was very nice and told me not to be shy in talking to her in Hebrew. So we chatted a little bit she had been leaving in Akko for a long time and was originally from Latvia. She has a nephew who works for NASA. She was a very nice lady and I'm glad I got to meet her.

Now for my weekend.