Airway Studying and Penacook Rescue Squad

This morning I woke up with my roommate Mansfield at the usual time I used to get up as if I was going to class. After breakfast in the dining hall I contacted the NH Marine Patrol to arrange a ride along later on during senior project. They were receptive to my ideas and I'm really looking forward to it. After that I got my EMT textbook, notes from class, and note cards together to study the airway chapter in the library. I studied the notecards I made in study hall the previous night, read the chapter, and made more. Tonight I will review and take several practice tests. This afternoon I headed to Penacook Rescue Squad to meet with Deputy Chief Brechtel. On the way there one of their ambulances passed me on the way to a call. When I got to the station a Paramedic, Jeremy, was washing his truck. We were talking when Penacook Rescue got an additional call. Jeremy called the deputy and he told me to hop in the ambulance with Jeremy, he was going to meet us at the scene. The route to the call had moderate traffic and a big intersection. It was a lot of fun riding in the front of Penacook's ambulance with Jeremy as we responded to the call. Unfortunately this was a rather uneventful call for an intoxicated person at the county jail. We packaged the patient on our cot and took her to the hospital. I watched the Paramedic establish an IV line and administer some drugs, always cool to see. Penacook has a Defibrillator and stretcher that are made by different companies than Andover's, so I had to learn "on the fly" how they worked. On the way back to the station, Deputy Brechtel and I talked and I planned a couple of days to ride there during the day shift. I'm looking forward to learning how to use their Zoll defibrillator and hoping I get some good calls with them.