emergency medical sims

The Setting: New York City, 1987

Hi my name is Joe Conolly

im 34 and i am currently a paramedic working for Our Lady of Perpetual Mercy Hospital emergency medical service. so basically im the guy in the ambulance. Im currently assigned in the midtown area of Manhattan but i can be dispatched to areas as far north as harlem and as far downtown as south ferry. Im a New york city native born in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn. it used to be a nice neighborhood.

^my family
But a few years ago it got really bad and i didnt want my wife stephanie or my daughter katherine to be exposed to that. When Stephanie found out she was pregnant we decided to to move to the South Beach neighboorhood of Staten Island. I miss Brooklyn but i know this is best for my family. My wife is currently 32 and she had Kathrine when she was 23. That was back in 1978. I had a few part time jobs until then but 3 months before she was born i got certified as an emt and worked private ambulance companies on Staten Island. it wasnt that bad back then since it was BLS (basic life support), mostly life alert cases for senior citizens. And yes they have actually called 911 saying "I've fallen and i cant get up". Then i Got my Paramedic liscense and Started working For Our Lady of Perpetual Mercy as an ALS (advanced life support) Paramedic.

^Tom Walls
When i started working at OLPM i was partnered with Tom Walls. He was a former marine that saw combat in Vietnam. When i used to ride with him we picked up every big ALS thing that the dispatcher could find and if the the dispatcher couldnt find anything we would pop over to the NYPD and FDNY citywide channels to see if somthing was going on. In that time there was alot of crime and alot of fires so we were busy our whole shift. People were always getting shot and burned up and we would be there to save them Then one night everything changed. we were driving past a known crackhouse in hells kitchen and i thought i saw somthing move in the alley and i got a bad vibe. since i was riding shotgun i told Tom to stop and i used the mounted spotlight to take a look down the alley and as soon as that light turned on a man carrying a little girl about my daughters age dropped her and ran. once she hit the ground i noticed that she wasnt moving we both got out of the bus (nyc term for ambulance). Tom started to chase the man down to give what he would like to call "psychological first aid" which would normally inculde a beating. i ran to the back of the bus to get my Advanced Life Support kit then i ran over to her and noticed 2 things she looked so much like my daughter that it was creepy. i also noticed that there were fresh track marks so i pulled out my flashlight to do the eye test. i opened her right eye and shined my flashlight into her eyes they were green. the same color as my daughters. which was even stranger. her pupils were pinpoint which means one thing: Herion. Just as i was walking back to the bus to get my overdose kit Tom came running back cursing about how he lost the guy that did this to her. We both worked on her giving her several doses of Narcan which can get all the herion out of anyones system but it still didnt work. Tom called the police using the radio in the ambulance giving the a description of the guy who ran as i prepped her for transfer. once she was loaded up in the back her breathing became more shallow and her heart rate increased. i yelled through the walkthrough area between the box and the cab of the bus. and i told tom to drive faster. 2 blocks away from the hospital she flatlined. i tried to defibulate but her age made that difficult. when we reached the emergency entrance a doctor,nurse and 2 orderlys met us there. As soon as we opened up the back the doctor walked in and said time of death 3:21 am. then he told one of the nurses to call the detectives and medical examiner. As soon as he said that i became consumed with guilt. I knew i did my best to save her but i think it was the narcan that killed her. i filled out the paperwork for her death in the way to the mourge and while we were transporting i noticed that she was wearing a school uniform for some ritzy school on the upper east side. after we got back from running the body to the mourge i walked up to Captain Ed McManus

^Captain Ed
he told me that i did the best i could do in that situation and he would have done the same. I told him i couldnt do it anymore and that i wanted to quit. he talked me out of it by fowarding me 2 weeks of vaction time and he told me to get some rest. this was in the middle of summer and since that girl reminded me so much of my own daughter i spent those 2 weeks with her. since i didnt tell my wife what had happened that night she wondered why i was spending so much time with katherine and to make matters worse on the first friday i was off Captain Ed and Tom came over to my house to see how i was doing. But they came in uniform and drove the Captains admin car (look in the first picture and its the sedan all the way on the left). After those 2 weeks i was given a new partner his name was Larry Veeber

^me and Larry in our new bus (hes in the drivers seat)

To Be Continued...

tell me what you think about my attempt at writing. and yes i know its dark and not like the normal Sim story and i know i should have taken more pics. Note: Most of the medical information is real but it should only be attempted by medical professionals.
so comment on it tell me what part was good and what part sucks so i can make the next part better

[size=150]Emergency Medical Sims Episode 2: Goodbye[/size]


It was just a normal friday afternoon around 3:30. i was waiting to leave for my shift at 5 and i had to be there at 6. so i was spending the afternoon passing time my favorite way laying on the couch flipping channels. this has become alot more entertaing since we got cable. i would normmaly watch mtv during the day and sitcoms on primetime if i had the day off.

Every once in a while in between videos Stephenie would pop in with a snack and beer or just to say "I love you". But just as the new Bon Jovi video "Dead or alive" came on she walked in with an unhappy look on her face and said "Joe we need to talk" and she told Katherine to play outside. I looked up and said what is it baby? She sat down and looked at me with her big green eyes and said "everything". she then started to cry and say about how the last 5 years she was living a lie and that she really wasnt happy being with me and being just my wife. She said that she just pretended to do this because of Katherine. She told me she wanted a divorce and already had the papers signed and all i had to do was sign my name. Then she told me that she didnt want cusdoty or anything just the freedom to leave i was reluctent to sign but i did anyway. after that she called her Parents in Northern New Jersey to pick her up and told me not to call her until she said it was ok. she then opened a window and called Katherine to come in. Katherine came in and saw me crying and Stephenie doing her best to hold back her tears.

She told Katherine that they were getting a divorce and katherine was going to be staying here with me. Katherine was confused thats when her parents pulled up in there massive lincoln they came in helping her with her bags all while giving me the look of death. then Stephanie bent down and gave Katherine a kiss and said that she will always love her. Then they left. When she left part of me did too. I looked at my watch, it was one of those new digital ones that cost a few hundred dollars and it was also the last anniversery present thatshe gave me. It was 10 to 5 i needed to get to work and con sidering i had no more sick or personal days left so i couldnt take today offand i had nobody to watch Katherine. So i told her to get in the car she would be hanging out at the ambulance garage tonight.

While we were driving to the garage in our car, a 1983 Mercury Grand Marquis dark red inside and out all i could think about is Stephanie and how i missed her already and how everyithing around me reminded me about her. The car Which her parents gave us after the brought a Cadillac coupe and a Town car. The watch that i was wearing. and even the song on the radio. Katherine was very quiet on the way to the garage. Every few minutes asking a single question and then letting the answer soak in really deep. Then asking another one most of them i couldnt really answer honestly so i just gave her either an optimistic answer or an honest "I don't know". As i got out of the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel i thought i saw her starting to cry so i pulled over and brought her some ice cream at carvel and giving my change to one of the many homeless skells that would probobly just spend it on drugs or cheap wine. About a half hour later and a half hour late for work we finally reached the ambulance garage.

Larry and Tom were Sitting on the couch arguing about the new sirens and lightbars that have been installed on the new buses. Katherine looked around with minor interest.
Then Captain Ed Saw us and pulled me aside

He aked "Connoly What the hell do you think your doin? Were an ambulance company not a day care center". I then told him the whole story and asked for light duty so i could watch Katherine until i could figure out what to do with her. The captain said yes and announced the new and improved duty roster for that night. He said to Tom and Larry who were still arguing about lights and sirens that they could continue this argument all night because they would be riding together on run 34-Xray using bus 32. Tom picked up the keys from the tackboard and him and larry wandered off in the general direction of bus 32. The captain told me that me and Katherine would be using Fly car 1 to pick up Records of Transport from all our patients from the last week for insurance and tax purposes. He then handed me the keys to fly car 1 and an address sheet of where to pick them up at, mostly police precincts and hospitals.

We made our way to fly car 1 which was an aging station wagon in front of the garage falsely marked EMS Supervisor as it hasnt been a supervisors car since atleast 1981 judging by the sticky film which was all over the steering wheel and front seat. Katherine looked at me and asked how long will we have to do this for and all i could say was "i really dont know" and pulled out of the lot stopping every once in a while to buy us both junk food and sodas and occasianly letting her play with the roof lights and siren in an attempt to keep her mind off of Stephanie leaving us.

Like i said i really didnt know how to work this any further and my PC died so ill be conyinuing Suburbia

This.story.is.crazy! When I say crazy I mean awesome! I've never heard of a story like this! How did you come up with it? Were you just bored?

Speaking from an authors point of view, I'd say he probably got an idea and ran with it, refining it as it went. I like writing stories with the sims because they offer a sort of hand in writing it, as they will kinda do their own thing, and progress as well as your influence. Also the different objects available can swing a story a different way