I guess I will start by introducing myself, which will be boring for the people who know me.
I'm a 41 y/o married mom of 2. My oldest is a beautiful, sweet 25 y/o woman. I have to say that she is the best thing that I have ever done with my life. She is the kindest most tender hearted soul that I know. She is absolutely beautiful. She is everything that I wish I would have been at age 25. My youngest is a 14 y/o basketball loving, video game playing bundle of hormones who is reluctantly at times growing into a gentleman. He is getting to an age where he doesn't need his mama quite as much and it is breaking my heart. But I suppose that's part of a boy becoming a man. I have been married to his dad for 17 years this August. We have our ups and downs, but there is nobody that I would rather have these ups and downs with.
I am also a paramedic. I wasn't sure which part of me to start with. Being a paramedic is just as big a part of my soul as being a wife and mother. That probably sounds wrong, but it is what it is. My family knows this and accepts it. My husband is a volunteer firefighter, so he gets it. My daughter works in the busiest ER in Wichita, so she understands also. I have a feeling that my son will also join this calling someday in some capacity.
I work for the largest EMS service in Kansas. I absolutely love it. The politics are a bit much at times, and I doubt that I will ever be much more to them on the career ladder than a paramedic, but I'm ok with that. I want to spend my life running calls and taking care of people. I feel like there are way more opportunities to learn in this capacity. I didn't mean for that to sound snotty or spiteful. I guess I mean that there are more opportunities to learn about the stuff that interests me the most in this capacity.
I also volunteer as a paramedic in the small town where I live. They paid for my tuition to paramedic school. So I volunteer. I would have volunteered here even if they hadn't have paid my tuition though. I feel like it is something that I need to do as long as I'm able. It's challenging as hell at times, but nothing fun is easy. I'm not so great at the administrative duties that I have been given. I need to be better at that. Someone has to do some of the boring stuff too though.
I try to spend my time off doing completely un-medic like things, but it's hard to put out of my mind. I spend time with my parents. Mainly my mom. My parents live here in the same town. I go out to lunch at least once a week with my mom. I don't know what I would do without them. They pick up a lot of my slack. My boy would be lost without my mom.
I spend my weekends off with my best friends in the universe. I can live the life that I do because I know that these people will always have my back, no matter what, no matter when. My husband and I plan to retire with this couple. Move in together. We have it all planned out. We will split all of our bills and share all of our income. We have all kinds of retirement plans, that will be more easily attained with the four of us. I know it sounds weird, but you will soon learn that weird should have been included in my introduction way before now.
You will also learn that I am kind of a basket case at times. I think you have to be to have a successful life in emergency medicine though.
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