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I had the idea for this image recently while having a busy shift on the ambulance. We were dealing with several high acuity calls when we were called to a simple hospital transfer. I was thinking that if our patient knew what had happened on the stretcher she was sitting on just moments ago she wouldn't be as at ease with where she was. I then starting thinking of all the things that happen in the back of my ambulance when I'm not on shift. ...If these walls could talk.
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A long time ago I realized I wanted to get the most out of this life. I travel a lot and have lived in several countries hoping to expand my life experiences. People often ask me why I became a paramedic, and I tell them because I wanted to help people, but that's not the truth - I wish it were. People also ask why emergency workers stay in their job if there's such a high risk of mental injury. For me, there's no more of a significant life experience than being with someone at a critical moment in their life. Trying to save someone from a traumatic or medical event or delivering a baby is as real as life gets for me. There are not many people that can say they have been with someone at the moment of their death or who have genuinely made a difference in saving a life. These are the most real of life experiences for me, and it's why I continue doing this job. If you're a life experience junkie like me than being an emergency worker is as good as it gets in my opinion.
Trauma Code 1 and 2 are the very first images I ever created. They are based on a call I attended early in my career where a young man in his early twenties died tragically. What stuck with me from this call wasn't that he died in the back of the ambulance; rather, it was what he was saying as he died. When I finished these pieces, I kept them to myself for a long time and had no plans to share them. The process of creating them was therapeutic and cathartic for me. I was able to purge the associated emotions from this memory from my head and trap them in these two-dimensional images. I feared what my fellow first responders would think if I showed a vulnerable side to our profession. It was months before anyone else saw them. To my pleasant surprise, the opposite of what I feared happened. Many of our peers looked at these images and attached their own experiences to them and were also able to heal from them in some way. Many of my pieces are dark and tragic, but they are all authentic and healing for me. They are all – tragically optimistic.
Occasionally I think about my future patients. One day our paths will meet, it may be the worst and last day of their lives. I haven’t met a victim of a car accident who wasn’t shocked and surprised to be in their situation. I’ve never met a man who knew when he would have his heart attack. Somewhere my next cardiac arrest, drowning, assault or traumatic code patient is having a normal day. Fate will bring us together. Perhaps I walked passed them at the mall or was beside them in my car while waiting in traffic. We will meet on the most import day of their life since their birth. Fate will bring us together. Is it weird that I think about that sort of thing? Does anyone else think of it? It’s even weirder when I reverse the roles, who will be there at my end? Will I know the paramedics or firefighters? Will they be my friends? It’s not something that may happen, it’s something that will happen for all of us. All I can do is when we do meet, I will be the best paramedic or firefighter I can be that day… and if I’m the patient then I wish the same for the first responders who come help me.
Trauma Code 1 and 2 are the very first images I ever created. They are based on a call I attended early in my career where a young man in his early twenties died tragically. What stuck with me from this call wasn't that he died in the back of the ambulance; rather, it was what he was saying as he died. When I finished these pieces, I kept them to myself for a long time and had no plans to share them. The process of creating them was therapeutic and cathartic for me. I was able to purge the associated emotions from this memory from my head and trap them in these two-dimensional images. I feared what my fellow first responders would think if I showed a vulnerable side to our profession. It was months before anyone else saw them. To my pleasant surprise, the opposite of what I feared happened. Many of our peers looked at these images and attached their own experiences to them and were also able to heal from them in some way. Many of my pieces are dark and tragic, but they are all authentic and healing for me. They are all – tragically optimistic.
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Am I a burn out? I’ve been reading many articles on occupational stress injuries, PTSD and stress in the work place. A few of these articles stated the work place environment (office politics) is a major cause of stress for first responders and in some cases first responders stated office politics as being more stressful than attending emergency calls. Is it possible that our workplace can be more stressful to us than attending life and death emergency calls? When I was a new medic I would see older and more experienced medics that were jaded and very negative to the profession. I always wondered why they were still working if they were so miserable. Sometimes I worry that now I’m that old burnt out medic that isn’t as pumped about the work as I used to be. I find I get into days of negativity that is really just hurting myself and causing a great deal of unwanted stress. Is being a burnt out medic increase your risk of PTSD or getting an occupational stress injury? I let go of all the things out of my control that were bothering me and it was a wonderful realization for me. Now I go to work and have fun at being the best paramedic and firefighter that I can be and I don’t worry about anything else. When I leave work I leave all the workplace stressors behind me. …burnt out medic status averted… Have a safe week everyone, DanSun
Since I posted 'First Contact' a few weeks ago I've been receiving hundreds of emails from 911 operators all around the world. Some of the stories have made my toes curl. One thing that has stuck in my mind is the amount of times dispatchers hear a caller end their life while on the phone. They are 'The Last Voice' many people hear. Often they don't know what happens after the emergency crews arrive. Sometimes their only indication is when they are asked to call the Coroner. Another terrifying situation is being on the phone with a victim that is being attacked and listening to them plead for help as they are being murdered. For dispatchers, they often are The Last Voice. This is for all my Brothers and Sisters who dispatch us to our calls, you are one of us, you suffer the same emotional torment and celebrate with us when we have a save. You are not forgotten or unsung in my books. Thank you for what you do. DanSun
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