Sharing a Supernatural Experience From My Paramedic Years. | |
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User ID: 41238644 United States 01/27/2014 10:29 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I was a paramedic for a long while. I enjoyed the job with the notable exception of dying and dead children that shit has stuck to me like glue. I average about one nightmare every two to three months, that's way down from years past when I'd get them three or four a week. Quoting: Grendel With that said, I need to share an experience that was supernatural. It did not involve a child. We were called to a rural home. When we arrived, the patient was being treated by volunteer firefighter/first responders (God bless to all of those folks. You are worth more than communities know or care.) Well, the man was in full cardiac arrest, fifty-ish year old smoker with family history of heart disease. Young, but not a shock. His family, of course, is freaking out. We take him to the ambulance. Well, if you're in EMS you know medical codes 'are stay and play' (I know that sounds more crass than it is. It's a reminder that a paramedic equipped truck can do the majority of first line advanced cardiac arrest management.) The guy is dead. He was well outside the 10 minute defibrillation mark where recovering pulse is slim to none, and a viable, functioning human is next to impossible without the intervention of the Divine. So, we are working this guy. He was a good man and we all felt for his family. There are five people in the back, me, my partner, two firefighters, and neighbor who was an LPN. Well, we are coding the hell out of this guy, a real, true team effort, no egoes in the way, no fucking superhero bullshit, just pros all in concert. And that's when it happened, the kid I had bagging him was the least experienced so it was the best job for him. He is sitting in the Captain Seat at the head of the patient. (Good kid by the way, he's a full time firefighter now.) This kid stops cold and looks at the back of the door. Well, we all stop and look at him first and he is just looking at the backdoor so we all turn and look at the back door of the ambulance. Now this is the freaky part. There, looking in the window, is a solid apparition of the very man we are coding. He smiled then fades into the dark behind him. We all just stopped for a second, looked at each other, and went back to work. 5* and thank you for that share! "Big waves are nature's way of flipping out" - Corky Carroll, surfer dude “This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at her savage whiskers, and her claws and her turned-up tail.” ~Beatrix Potter |
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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 35597183 United States 01/27/2014 10:32 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | By the way, I consider myself a Deist. I've read the Bible, Koran, the Vedic texts, the Tao, Buddhist texts, I'm a devout believer in mathematics and physics. (I'd like to note, I think biology is a legitimate science interwoven with hokum from the religion of Darwin.) |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 52897700 United States 01/27/2014 10:42 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Don't disbelieve you but I've got a question for you about your story, OP. Why would you guys be bagging him? Wouldn't that be done at the hospital after staff confirms? Don't think you guys can pronounce, can you? Quoting: telling it straight Bagging him = BVM = artificially making his lungs work. MO- RON |
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User ID: 52081214 United States 01/27/2014 11:22 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Don't disbelieve you but I've got a question for you about your story, OP. Why would you guys be bagging him? Wouldn't that be done at the hospital after staff confirms? Don't think you guys can pronounce, can you? Quoting: telling it straight Bagging him = BVM = artificially making his lungs work. MO- RON No need to be rude. I thought the reference was to bagging him for the morgue and that's not normally done by ems. |
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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 35597183 United States 01/27/2014 11:40 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | He was declared dead. It was sad. It was weeks before any of us discussed it. One of the volunteers quit over it. It really spooked him. My partner was sort of unnerved by it. Me, I'm still not certain what to think. I don't think it was mass hallucination. I could be wrong, but it just does add up to anything but an interesting and eerie tale. (100% true by the way.) |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 53301566 United States 01/27/2014 11:47 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | He was declared dead. It was sad. It was weeks before any of us discussed it. One of the volunteers quit over it. It really spooked him. My partner was sort of unnerved by it. Me, I'm still not certain what to think. I don't think it was mass hallucination. I could be wrong, but it just does add up to anything but an interesting and eerie tale. (100% true by the way.) Definitely an eerie and interesting tale. Thanks for sharing! |
New NeverSerious
Thread Thrasher User ID: 53319830 United States 01/27/2014 11:50 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 100% believable and an interesting share... thanks. BTW, all of the medics I know ended up retiring due to trauma involving children... that they just could not get past. Are we there yet? "So if we don't get some cool rules ourselves, pronto, we'll just be bogus too" Jeff Spicoli "Don't take any wooden nickels" Pugtard |
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Bum User ID: 24408047 United States 01/28/2014 12:02 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Yes, miracles happen! Seems like msg that we can each interpret in our own way. Yes, if your a medic, for awhile, your nervous system takes a quiet beating. Coming from EMS (Army medic etc.), all that I can say is that it was worth the trip! |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 35597183 United States 01/28/2014 12:07 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Tailpipe on the ambulance was plugged, causing carbon monoxide to back up into the ambulance. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 28618110 You all experienced a simultaneous C.M. hallucination. Mystery solved. Wow, thanks for clearing up that mystery. I guess some of the other minor miracles I saw over a decade long career were just luck and bullshit. I've seen people live that should not have lived. Seen other crazy shit, too. However, this was the most 'supernatural'. Man, it never occurred to me, simple CM poisoning. Wow, you must teach me your powers of deduction, Master Sherlock Von Yoda! |
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User ID: 47753737 United States 01/28/2014 12:11 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Tailpipe on the ambulance was plugged, causing carbon monoxide to back up into the ambulance. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 28618110 You all experienced a simultaneous C.M. hallucination. Mystery solved. Wow, thanks for clearing up that mystery. I guess some of the other minor miracles I saw over a decade long career were just luck and bullshit. I've seen people live that should not have lived. Seen other crazy shit, too. However, this was the most 'supernatural'. Man, it never occurred to me, simple CM poisoning. Wow, you must teach me your powers of deduction, Master Sherlock Von Yoda! |
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User ID: 3827119 United States 01/28/2014 12:16 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Thanks for the awesome story! I totally believe you. My dad was an EMT/firefighter most of his life. It was kids deaths that got to him too. Oh and a plane crash in our town. He said when he realized no survivors he actually had to leave. It was the Marshall University plane crash in 1970. |
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User ID: 49792751 United States 01/28/2014 12:31 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Tailpipe on the ambulance was plugged, causing carbon monoxide to back up into the ambulance. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 28618110 You all experienced a simultaneous C.M. hallucination. Mystery solved. Wow, thanks for clearing up that mystery. I guess some of the other minor miracles I saw over a decade long career were just luck and bullshit. I've seen people live that should not have lived. Seen other crazy shit, too. However, this was the most 'supernatural'. Man, it never occurred to me, simple CM poisoning. Wow, you must teach me your powers of deduction, Master Sherlock Von Yoda! I'm finally going to stop drinking for good... I'll now only drink for evil. Today I broke my personal record for most consecutive days lived. |
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