Rescue

I don't know how to address the web, but maybe "the world" might be good. Yesterday morning, a fire department experience again became part of my life experiences again. The pager went off again and listening to the address, we were on our way to my uncle and aunt's house. We get there, the front door is wide open, a neighbor is in the house and I find my uncle on the floor in the bedroom breathing but not moving or talking. The neighbor said she wasn't ever so happy to see someone. Other firemen began rolling in each doing his or her thing, more or less the same procedure we've done many times before, but this time it was my uncle... You still need to do what you are trained to do whether or not you know the person or not. We moved him to the backboard, he indicated he wasn't comfortable there and we moved him up to a chair. He was still not talking and it was beginning to look like a stroke... The ambulance crew arrived, did their thing, and suggested they go to a city hospital, then rolled out. We did everything we can and or know how to do, but to many times you think is it enough? Realistically I think he made it to the hospital in an hour and a half, not bad for a group of trained volunteers with a hospital thirty miles away. I talk about the hospital experience tomorrow.