But Im Just An Ambulance Driver!

Standing in chest deep water, freezing rain falling and stinging as it hits the exposed parts of your body. Holding the head above water to keep her head from drowning until rescue could get there to cut her free But Im Just An Ambulance Driver

on a scene at a mva a mom trapped upside down in her car and her dead sons body laying on top of her without a second thought for my safety crawing inside the wreckage to take C spine control and to calm the frantic lady But Im Just An Ambulance Driver

Confronting a 89 year old lady who just watch for hours me and my partner do our best to save her husband of 64 years as he lay dead in the bathroom floor But Im Just An Ambulance Driver

Doing chest compressions on a young girl who decided this life was more than she could take. Her family screaming at us to save her as though we was the ones who did this to her. Her lifeless body flailing about as the tubes goes in and IV's being started, my arm and back buring from the pain of 30 min. of CPR never once giving up, hoping she would make it through and over come whatever lead her this decision she made But Im just An Ambulance Driver

Standing in the middle of a street at midnight on the wrong side of the town trying to save the life of a 19 year old shooting victim with multiple bleeding with occasional bullets wizzing past our heads never breaking stride because this kids life is in oue hands But Im Just An Ambulance Driver

Called away from a just prepared meal to B.F.E to a house with no numbers, no pourch light on, nobody wating to sign you in and they yell at you because you took too long only to find out the pt. left P.O.V ten min. ago so we just grin and smile and walk away from the verbal lashing only because Im Just An Ambulance Driver

Death is all around me and still i go home to live my life i get kicked at, spit on, hit, bleed on, puked on i look into the eyes of lifeless child at 7am and by 8 i'm holding my child a little tighter and they know nothing about what just happened.

I have hundreds o hours of classroom time
years of field experence
i've challenged death and won
i've helped the homeless
i've neglected my family for yours
i find comfront in complete chaos
i eat cold meals if get to eat at all
i work with no sleep for days at a time
i miss birthdays,holidays,ans school funtions
i put myself in harms way for a total stranger on a daily basis

ALL BECAUSE IM JUST AN AMBULANCE DRIVER

I am an Ambulance Driver!!!! I drive 70 mph through conjested traffic full of people who refuse to yeild the right of way while my partner stands unrestrainted in the back of this screaming land missle saving your loved ones life!!! Never once does he question my driving he knows that at the end of this shift he will go home to his family safely because
IM AN AMBULANCE DRIVER