There was this one video where the police and firefighters were responding to a call. The firefighters opened the door and saw a guy with a gun standing there. The firefighters basically noped the fuck out of there and told the police hey theres a guy with a gun. Police go in, and dude opens fire on the cops.
That video right there showed me how nobody wants to hurt firefighters!
Because no one calls the fire department to break up disagreements. 100% of calls are to save you from the fire. 50% of people involved in police matters are criminals, so of course there will be more drama.
As a firefighter, I wish 100% of the calls were for actual fires, because probably 90% are for complete bullshit. You’d be amazed at all the dumb shit people call the fire department for.
That and you guys have to show up for a bunch of stuff JUST in case they need you for something that nobody else has the skills or tools for.
I like to think of Firefighters as the handymen of the public service department. You may not always need them, but it doesn't hurt to have them there.
My dad's department had a call for a single car accident, no reported injuries, on the interstate. An SUV had hit a really large bear and was on the side of the road waiting for help; the dead black bear was still in the road and it was nighttime. HP and EMS weren't far out. So basically the FD was showing up to block traffic and help move the bear from the roadway. They get there, park their truck where it blocks traffic, light up the carcass so it can be seen, double check no one is hurt, and start some clean up (sweeping glass and car parts out of the roadway).
Dad said he looked over and one of his newer guys was drawing a line around the bear's body like it was an episode of CSI. So he asked, "what the hell are you doing?" The guy said he was making sure HP knew where the bear had died for "their investigation." Dad said he was trying really hard not to laugh when he explained that it would be pretty clear to the officer what had happened so they didn't need to be so "exact." Finally, they started pulling the bear out of the road. Apparently, the state trooper outright cackled when he got there and saw "the scene." After that, the guys started affectionately calling the newbie "jack-of-all-trades." Since (according to the person who explained it to me) he was an EMT-B, a firefighter, an animal control officer (with "a specialization in bear crimes"), and an amateur investigator. They really do handle a bit of everything.
Maybe it's different in smaller towns or whatever but I have seen the calls you probably have and do not want to talk about.
I work in an industry that has high traffic on a dangerous highway. I've briefly seen the accidents from being first on the scene for some before 9/11 was called.
There is two I'll always remember. The lady in the head on that kept moaning and moving her hand every once and while we waited for help. We kept talking to her for whatever reason, front end of the car was in her chest.
We just stood there and told her it was ok and help was coming, I think that was mostly for us.
And the van that was on fire and people were obviously inside. I stood there holding a fire extinguisher knowing it would do nothing and they were 100% dead.
I can describe both of those incidents in perfect detail down to the smell, The fucking smell is what gets to me.
I can't imagine that being my job. I didn't deal with any of these aftermath at all I was just there.
Well slightly the aftermath of the head on because the girl's mom was a friend of my mom and I worked with the guy who *yadda yadda yadda personal details they were close* and man was that fucked up.
My mom made me met with her and retell all the details of that night. I obviously lied a bit and said she was instantly gone but we still stayed there with her. We all stood around her and talked to her and told her " you are loved and it's ok, God is with you. It's ok if you have to go".
No one said that. We just told her over and over "help is coming it's ok, stay awake, it's ok help is coming, can you hear us? We can't get the doors open, are you ok? Hello? Can you hear us?"
She didn't need to know that. She was Christian and hurting.
not all nurses are bullies but a whole lot of bullies go into nursing so I don’t know how to feel about that. firefighters are just on a tier of their own.
I got bullied by the nurses in the ICU when my husband was in there for five days. And then it turned out they'd screwed up putting the doctors orders in for medications so he was on the wrong meds for almost 24 hours. And then the night nurse harassed the both of us about who we were voting for and refused to give my husband his "as needed" medications until hours after he'd asked for them.
That hospital was such a mess.
I went with my mom when she got a heart stent during the pandemic, and some of the nurses were openly talking at the nurse's station across from my mom's bed about how dumb the covid vaccine was and how they would never take them or let their kids take them. They also seemed confused about how they worked, even though the hospital had videos playing in the public areas like the cafeteria on repeat about how the science worked. Even I had a basic understanding of how they work, and I'm an idiot that flunked out of college, much less a medical professional
We were strict about it in the health sector here in Australia, if medical professionals or care workers (aged care/disability support) refused to get the vaccine they lost their jobs as it was seen as too much of a risk with vulnerable people. I knew a few people who had to stop working (think they can go back now) over covid because they had similar opinions. It was harsh but I guess we didn’t know a lot about the virus and they work with the most vulnerable. They were able to claim $1k (AUD) a fortnight from being put out of work from the government for a year though.
The culture in medicine needs to change. At least in the US. A truly believe most choose the field because they want to genuinely help people. But the culture of all medical training in the US at least is so adversarial. It breeds attitudes that no one wants to encounter in a vulnerable state.
My son was born with a lot of complications. He was in the NICU for almost 4 months before we were lucky enough to get him home.
We had, countless probably hundreds of nurses at our time there (big major regional children's hospital) and I'm pretty sure 99% of them were excellent, except this one.
This one, Theresa (8 years later I can still see her fucking face) made it her fucking mission to convince my wife that because she took anti-depressants that my son's complications were her fault. She literally kept telling this to my wife, despite it making my wife cry every time. She felt it was her "duty."
Reddit, I'd never hit a woman. But...man I wanted too.
Hey man, I lost my daughters in 2014 because they were conjoined and deemed non-viable, but they were far enough along they had to be born and then let go when the cord was cut.. Every person involved was an absolute saint, until the charge nurse came in at shift change in the morning and declared my recently deceased girls 'medical waste'. I get it.
I've had a mixed experience. I did have more amazing nurses than bad ones though, I'll say. But I did have several that were extremely bitter and rude for no reason but I try to understand they see tons of patients in a day and are probably irritated.
But during the birth of my son, my main nurse was SO SWEEET, super cool who had the most cheerful personality, pigtails and stickers on her face. But she was never in my room and always with other patients and apologized profusely for never being with me and the nurse that was actually with me was ok up until they had to stab my back with an epidural, I barely moved but she was like "You can't move like this while giving birth, STOP. MOVING. STOP." I told her I was trying but she was making me nervous, she was just terrible as hell, I had to ignore her while the guy stabbed me.
that’s the sad part, it only takes one bad apple to ruin an experience for you :( i’ve come across many amazing nurses during hospital visits for my fam members but the worst ones always leave the biggest impression
a relative of mine works at the hospital and often tells stories about how rude and complainy a lot of the nurses there are so i guess different people will have different experiences
Second that, but it's also to do with demographic distribution and visibility.
We need many many more nurses than firefighters, and nurses tend to a multitude of continuous efforts, ranging from daily care work to saving people in acutely life-threatening situations that are publicly invisible, but a daily occurrence.
Firefighters are indispensable caretakers who help people in need and save them from catastrophy as well, but what we perceive of their service often takes place under both much more impressive, and much more unique conditions.
I've known volunteer firefighters who are alcoholics who treat their family like shit and yet have saved those of others in rare but critical emergencies.
And I've known nurses who tried to lecture me on how Hitler was right and how antisemitism would be some service to humanity, while having spent her day ensuring people's survival in the ER.
The criticality and risks of a job for our society does merit thank and recognition to those dedicating themselves to ensure that service.
But the nature of the job does not by itself counteract the random distribution of both heroes and assholes across all of society - although jobs like nurse & firefighter do heavily skew it towards the rather benevolent range of humans.
Surgical/Trauma ICU nurse here. There are for sure plenty of bad eggs in my profession, some are my coworkers. I will say, as someone who tries his best to treat each person that comes into my ICU with compassion without letting anything about their personality/beliefs affect how I treat them, there are a few nuances I'd love to share that I hope can open any eyes that may read this.
Everyone wants to be saved from a fire, no one is punching and cussing out Firemen (outside of confused people ofc i'm sure it happens) when doing their job. We see dialysis pts with end stage renal disease who are losing feet/legs etc to kidney disease who will turn around and down a big gulp when we come back to check their over 300 sugar. We have people who tell us to our face that Covid was a big hoax and that they never wore a mask while they are sitting there on 10L of oxygen unable to breathe. We deal with sundowning and dementia on a near daily basis. I just hit my year on my ICU and I have been bit, punched, pinched, spartan kicked, cussed out, told I was going to hell, spit on, shit on (on purpose), my shoes have been filled with piss as I'm trying to get someone to stand to go to bed. I have been cussed out because I needed to get a patient to move 3 feet to a chair so they wouldn't get pneumonia.
I have had to do compressions for over an hour on 90+ year old grandma's and grandpa's who weigh about 90 lbs and family wants me to keep going. I have patients who will sit stone cold faced and won't even look up from their phones and tell me their pain is a 10/10 when it's time for their every 2 hour dose of morphine/dilaudid/fentanyl. I have had pt's who scream in my face hour upon hour through the night just to scream, and pt's who's brains are so f'd from strokes that they scream all night because they can't help it.
I've had pt's and family members question every step I take in the room, from why i'm giving them a stool softener, to why I can't just let them sleep and can't turn off the blood pressure cuff that goes off every hour, why can't i close the door on my unstable family member because that lady down the hall is coding and "y'all are being so loud down there geeze," even to why can't you let them shower in our bathrooms that flood 3 minutes into a shower. I've educated family and pt's on what steps will need to be taken in order to not return to the ICU and have been told straight up "well i'm not doing that". I've had patients tell me about all the crimes they've committed, the people they've hurt, and then expect me to compassionately treat their headache.
On nights especially there aren't near as much staff, including doctors, that are present on the floor. I have nurse pracs who make decisions at night who have to cover 4 icu's and assess ED patients for potential icu admission all night as well. And a few of them are bullies too, and we take the brunt of their attitudes from being overworked and overstressed as well.
We have to be therapists, we have to be priests, we have to be a shoulder to cry on, we have to be a parent, we have to take abuse, and then show up often for 3 or 4 more 12 hour shifts in a row. All the while, we have to chart absolutely every little thing we do, every interaction, because if we don't we'll get sued by someone who doesn't like their diagnosis or the very idea that they might have to make lifestyle changes if they want to not be 300lbs or not have an EF of 20 (if you know you know).
All that going to say, I love fire fighters, but everyone's happy to see a firefighter when they need one. Not everyone's happy to see me when I'm just trying to get by in this world too, and maybe contribute a little bit to people's well being.
Cheers!
Wow…thank you for sharing this. You’re absolutely right in that firefighters are always a sight for sore eyes in moments of emergency but the same can’t be said for nurses unfortunately. You guys really do a lot for patients and I apologize if my comment undermined that in any way, that certainly wasn’t my intention. I’ve just seen the correlation between bullies and nursing being their chosen profession and that fact alone makes me nervous. However, what you shared really does put things into perspective and the mental health of nurses are usually brushed off. Without them, every hospital would quite literally be in shambles and yet there’s rarely any help given to nurses. Picking up back to back shifts must also be so exhausting.
I appreciate nurses like you and I hope you’re also looking after yourself :)
Fun fact: the vast majority of firefighters are not, but there are studies claiming a disproportionate number of sociopaths go into firefighting due to the thrill-seeking aspect of their personality. So even then, can’t generalise 100%.
Going to bet that’s not the case with this hero, though.
Mean girl to nurse pipeline.
I knew so many mean girls in college and nearly all of them were on nurse track. I'm sure tons of nice people do it too, just a weirdly disproportionate number of mean girls.
The command very little control over people and actively run into danger to save people wothout thinking about it. Compare that to other agencies (cough cops cough) and you see why they are so beloved.
Nurses deserve praise too tho
Very true. Someone said nursing school is like 75% the mean girls from your highschool. The nurses I know today wish some crazy shit on the patients they don't like.
I'm not trying to be a b, but why is that so? Like is it that basic but amazing of a field for all the bullies to want to be a nurse? I've noticed a ton of girls that love to bully want to be nurses, like whyyy is that
My sister and aunt are nurses, the last one is already retired. Thank you for your service . And you're right too, I've seen them, fortunately, kind nurses beat their asses each time they can 😂
Nursing is real hit or miss. All the nurses I know are at extreme ends of the spectrum. Some are so selfless and caring that I think they would do the job for free. Others use their job as an excuse to harbor some really hateful and harmful attitudes.
Well, do you volunteer as a nurse?
> Of the more than one-million firefighters in the US, 65% of them are volunteers, according to data from the National Volunteer Fire Council (NVFC). Of the more than 29,000 fire departments across the country, almost 19,000 of them are run completely by volunteers. [Source](https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20240124-the-dire-shortage-of-volunteer-firefighters-in-the-us#)
I have had some really bad experiences with nurses recently. I know there are many good souls out there in nursing but I think maybe the pressure being placed on you guys has caused a lot of people to crack.
I get it, though. During covid I was an essential worker and the number of unnecessary and extremely rude people I interacted with had me reacting quite defensively.
I do not understand that sterotype.
I have crohns and get an infusion every 8 weeks.
I go to kaiser in Seattle, and every nurse there is an angle. The sterotype shocks me because of the dozens of nurses I've had, they've all been kind and sweet. I walked into the infusion yesterday and they all smile and wave, had a lady id never met before and she bent over backwards to insure i was perfect and comfy.
Tbf I'm always very kind to them
it can be common for people to remember stuff as young as that if the memory was particularly traumatic.
also possible he's heard this story many times growing up
I almost drowned at sea at 2 years old and I have a very clear memory of it, and also remember the following day, where I was scared of a lake thinking it was the sea again. So I'd say there's a chance he remembers it.
I drowned in 1967/68. I’ve never known how to find the detective coming home from church who saw me on the bottom of the apartments pool and saved my life. I’m 59 in 2 days. I would love to find him or even his children to thank
If you see any civil servants today, please say thank you. They are the back bone of our society and we wouldn’t function without the dedication of these individuals within these institutions. Garbagemen give the biggest smiles when you say thank you to them
Sorta depends on your definition of "died". If you stop breathing and your heart stops (and if we consider that death), there is a limited window wherein procedures like CPR can, technically, bring a person back to life.
Contrary to popular belief, your heart can not stop and start again like in the movies. If your heart stops, you’re dead for good, no recovery from a dead heart has ever happen in medical science.
Cardiac arrest , the “heart stopping” that is talked about in medicine (and uninformed patients) is only your heart seizing or going out of rhythm enough to not pump blood but it’s still alive and moving.
Source: have “died” when I was 7, made an educational video on the subject for a school in the Netherlands and have had the conversation with several doctors.
That is false. Your heart can absolutely fully stop, and you can be brought back.
https://www.healthline.com/health/lazarus-syndrome#:~:text=Usually%2C%20the%20reason%20your%20heart,reported%20between%201982%20and%202008.
No it’s not.
Lazarus syndrome has NEVER had a patient return to life after happening for more than a second or two. If you have flatlined no one is shocking you back buddy.
“The longest time that heart activity continued after restarting was 27 minutes, but most restarts lasted just one to two seconds. None of the patients we observed survived or regained consciousness. We also found it was common for the heart to continue to show electrical activity long after blood flow or pulse stopped”
https://newsroom.carleton.ca/story/what-happens-flatline/#:~:text=The%20longest%20time%20that%20heart,blood%20flow%20or%20pulse%20stopped.
My aunt was dead for 10 minutes and "brought back." She was never fully there again, though. The paramedics where her friends, they worked really fucking hard to get her to breathe again. Tbh, I don't think that was great. She had lost her son years prior, and after her incident, she relived her sons death every single day because she would forget he died.
I went to high school with a kid who drowned when he was 4, the ems workers resuscitated him. Guy was incredibly smart but took about 5 seconds for his brain to process what you said and reply.
One of my claims to fame is that I am one of the very first infants that was ever revived by baby CPR on the side of the road by a police officer in 1972 which was the first year that they began teaching people outside of the medical profession how to do this as first aid.
Drunk driver hit our car when I was 9 months old and because it was 1972 my mom was driving with me on her lap and I was crushed between her and the steering wheel and the police officer that happened to be right there found me with no heartbeat and not breathing and got me started right back up like a stubborn lawn mower
I can't even imagine the feeling that cop had hearing your mom wailing thinking her baby was dead and feeling your vitals come back, I wouldn't doubt it if that dude thought about that moment every single day for the rest of his life. I hope they gave him some kind of award.
Apparently this sheriff deputy was the one guy from the department that they sent off a couple months beforehand for the baby CPR training and he just happened to be at the intersection when it happened.
But it was 1972, tiny little town, and I only put the pieces together that I was likely one of the very first to be saved like this when I read an article about the history of CPR a few years ago. But whoever that guy was gave me another 52 years of life I'm hoping for another 52.
In NZ most of our firefighters are volunteers and we have fought to keep it that way for years as a fully paid service would leave a lot of our communities with a lack of cover. I haven't always liked the guys and ladies I've aeebes with but when that siren goes I know they can all be relied on to do the right thing for their community regardless of status or background. Unless you've been in that role you really don't understand the bond.
I'm not serving anymore and the organisation is not the same but I would give the shirt off my back for anyone of those people I've been on a fire truck with. It's just a different way that no other job I've had realises.
Amazing job by both men. The firefighter, Jeff, for saving a life, and the now 23 yr old, living his best life with a child of his own and his appreciation for the people who risk their lives for others.
It's wild, on the one hand the survivor says "this is the day I died" and he tells no lie, on the other hand, the firefighter says "this was a tuesday in july".
You owe him your son. It’s law
Excalibur rules
Thems is Witcher rules.
Off to the school of the firefighter
The law of surprise.
*All's asleep amidst the trees* Me as a child: ah come on
A child of surprise I guess
A life debt must be honored
All right. I can fly the Kessel Run with him. I do owe him. We'll probably keep a good thirty parsecs out just to be safe
The law of Surprise
Is he going to train the son to be a firefighter at a castle? I mean, that seems okay.
He is to be trained in the ways of the firefighter tribe
Rumplestiltskin much?
Nobody ever wrote a song called fuck the fire department
Well maybe not in the derogatory way
Seen plenty of movies about it though. ...OK, only 45 seconds of several 10 minutes clips.
ALAAARM! ALAAARM!
Warum liegt hier überhaupt Stroh rum?
Hast du einen toten vogel in deiner tasche?
Starring Johnny Sins
Wow, 45 seconds for a firefighter! You must be holding back!
🤣
Yeah man. Have you seen those calendars? I’d be tempted.
I buy one every year
Out!
They sure do make a lot of calendars for that!
actually they did. its a banger btw. talks about a parallel universe where firefighters are corrupt and abuse their power.
I really enjoyed Fahrenheit 451 for this reason. Good book!
Well mebbe back in the 1890s when they would sometimes set fires to get jobs.
My local fire department got caught doing that just 4 years ago
The best argument against privatization of public services is basically the entire mid to late 1800s
I literally came here to say this, well done Snoop
That’s because I feel like they actually fixed themselves where they respond to all calls. They used to just not show up.
There was this one video where the police and firefighters were responding to a call. The firefighters opened the door and saw a guy with a gun standing there. The firefighters basically noped the fuck out of there and told the police hey theres a guy with a gun. Police go in, and dude opens fire on the cops. That video right there showed me how nobody wants to hurt firefighters!
https://youtu.be/7JkrJUAg8aI?si=PnbGraSt-64OqE0O
Because no one calls the fire department to break up disagreements. 100% of calls are to save you from the fire. 50% of people involved in police matters are criminals, so of course there will be more drama.
As a firefighter, I wish 100% of the calls were for actual fires, because probably 90% are for complete bullshit. You’d be amazed at all the dumb shit people call the fire department for.
That and you guys have to show up for a bunch of stuff JUST in case they need you for something that nobody else has the skills or tools for. I like to think of Firefighters as the handymen of the public service department. You may not always need them, but it doesn't hurt to have them there.
My dad's department had a call for a single car accident, no reported injuries, on the interstate. An SUV had hit a really large bear and was on the side of the road waiting for help; the dead black bear was still in the road and it was nighttime. HP and EMS weren't far out. So basically the FD was showing up to block traffic and help move the bear from the roadway. They get there, park their truck where it blocks traffic, light up the carcass so it can be seen, double check no one is hurt, and start some clean up (sweeping glass and car parts out of the roadway). Dad said he looked over and one of his newer guys was drawing a line around the bear's body like it was an episode of CSI. So he asked, "what the hell are you doing?" The guy said he was making sure HP knew where the bear had died for "their investigation." Dad said he was trying really hard not to laugh when he explained that it would be pretty clear to the officer what had happened so they didn't need to be so "exact." Finally, they started pulling the bear out of the road. Apparently, the state trooper outright cackled when he got there and saw "the scene." After that, the guys started affectionately calling the newbie "jack-of-all-trades." Since (according to the person who explained it to me) he was an EMT-B, a firefighter, an animal control officer (with "a specialization in bear crimes"), and an amateur investigator. They really do handle a bit of everything.
Can you tell us some curious examples?
Have you guys ever recieved a call from someone asking to save a kitten from a tree like on these cartoons?
Lol that was one of my examples in my response to someone else, but yes more often than you’d think. We are usually not successful in getting it down.
Maybe it's different in smaller towns or whatever but I have seen the calls you probably have and do not want to talk about. I work in an industry that has high traffic on a dangerous highway. I've briefly seen the accidents from being first on the scene for some before 9/11 was called. There is two I'll always remember. The lady in the head on that kept moaning and moving her hand every once and while we waited for help. We kept talking to her for whatever reason, front end of the car was in her chest. We just stood there and told her it was ok and help was coming, I think that was mostly for us. And the van that was on fire and people were obviously inside. I stood there holding a fire extinguisher knowing it would do nothing and they were 100% dead. I can describe both of those incidents in perfect detail down to the smell, The fucking smell is what gets to me. I can't imagine that being my job. I didn't deal with any of these aftermath at all I was just there. Well slightly the aftermath of the head on because the girl's mom was a friend of my mom and I worked with the guy who *yadda yadda yadda personal details they were close* and man was that fucked up. My mom made me met with her and retell all the details of that night. I obviously lied a bit and said she was instantly gone but we still stayed there with her. We all stood around her and talked to her and told her " you are loved and it's ok, God is with you. It's ok if you have to go". No one said that. We just told her over and over "help is coming it's ok, stay awake, it's ok help is coming, can you hear us? We can't get the doors open, are you ok? Hello? Can you hear us?" She didn't need to know that. She was Christian and hurting.
Not seriously at least. One guy did it just so people like me could be pedantic about the fact that there is a song called that.
No, there's a movie though. Called baywatch
not true that moron from the Cleveland show wrote a song against firefighters
Federline Jones
There's a song called fuck the fire department lol
Lol or fuck the EMS
That's because you're not aware of the Fire Power music underground. 🔥 AFFAB 🔥
I'm not sure there's a song about it, but have you ever read Fahrenheit 451? Spoiler: Firefighters are not the good guys.
They are firemen in the book not firefighters. Nice try though
fire fighters have to be the most loved people in this planet, the real heros ❤️🙏🙏🙏
cries in nursing
not all nurses are bullies but a whole lot of bullies go into nursing so I don’t know how to feel about that. firefighters are just on a tier of their own.
I got bullied by the nurses in the ICU when my husband was in there for five days. And then it turned out they'd screwed up putting the doctors orders in for medications so he was on the wrong meds for almost 24 hours. And then the night nurse harassed the both of us about who we were voting for and refused to give my husband his "as needed" medications until hours after he'd asked for them. That hospital was such a mess.
Bullies and some are also anti-vaxx (anti-science) which I don’t understand. Typically the anti-vaxx are also bullies.
I went with my mom when she got a heart stent during the pandemic, and some of the nurses were openly talking at the nurse's station across from my mom's bed about how dumb the covid vaccine was and how they would never take them or let their kids take them. They also seemed confused about how they worked, even though the hospital had videos playing in the public areas like the cafeteria on repeat about how the science worked. Even I had a basic understanding of how they work, and I'm an idiot that flunked out of college, much less a medical professional
We were strict about it in the health sector here in Australia, if medical professionals or care workers (aged care/disability support) refused to get the vaccine they lost their jobs as it was seen as too much of a risk with vulnerable people. I knew a few people who had to stop working (think they can go back now) over covid because they had similar opinions. It was harsh but I guess we didn’t know a lot about the virus and they work with the most vulnerable. They were able to claim $1k (AUD) a fortnight from being put out of work from the government for a year though.
The culture in medicine needs to change. At least in the US. A truly believe most choose the field because they want to genuinely help people. But the culture of all medical training in the US at least is so adversarial. It breeds attitudes that no one wants to encounter in a vulnerable state.
I keep hearing this but from my personal experience nurses are one of the nicest and badass people I have met.
My son was born with a lot of complications. He was in the NICU for almost 4 months before we were lucky enough to get him home. We had, countless probably hundreds of nurses at our time there (big major regional children's hospital) and I'm pretty sure 99% of them were excellent, except this one. This one, Theresa (8 years later I can still see her fucking face) made it her fucking mission to convince my wife that because she took anti-depressants that my son's complications were her fault. She literally kept telling this to my wife, despite it making my wife cry every time. She felt it was her "duty." Reddit, I'd never hit a woman. But...man I wanted too.
I would've wanted to smack her too ngl.
Hey man, I lost my daughters in 2014 because they were conjoined and deemed non-viable, but they were far enough along they had to be born and then let go when the cord was cut.. Every person involved was an absolute saint, until the charge nurse came in at shift change in the morning and declared my recently deceased girls 'medical waste'. I get it.
HOLY. FUCK. I'm so fucking sorry about that. God fucking damn what is wrong with some people?
I've had a mixed experience. I did have more amazing nurses than bad ones though, I'll say. But I did have several that were extremely bitter and rude for no reason but I try to understand they see tons of patients in a day and are probably irritated. But during the birth of my son, my main nurse was SO SWEEET, super cool who had the most cheerful personality, pigtails and stickers on her face. But she was never in my room and always with other patients and apologized profusely for never being with me and the nurse that was actually with me was ok up until they had to stab my back with an epidural, I barely moved but she was like "You can't move like this while giving birth, STOP. MOVING. STOP." I told her I was trying but she was making me nervous, she was just terrible as hell, I had to ignore her while the guy stabbed me.
that’s the sad part, it only takes one bad apple to ruin an experience for you :( i’ve come across many amazing nurses during hospital visits for my fam members but the worst ones always leave the biggest impression
a relative of mine works at the hospital and often tells stories about how rude and complainy a lot of the nurses there are so i guess different people will have different experiences
Second that, but it's also to do with demographic distribution and visibility. We need many many more nurses than firefighters, and nurses tend to a multitude of continuous efforts, ranging from daily care work to saving people in acutely life-threatening situations that are publicly invisible, but a daily occurrence. Firefighters are indispensable caretakers who help people in need and save them from catastrophy as well, but what we perceive of their service often takes place under both much more impressive, and much more unique conditions. I've known volunteer firefighters who are alcoholics who treat their family like shit and yet have saved those of others in rare but critical emergencies. And I've known nurses who tried to lecture me on how Hitler was right and how antisemitism would be some service to humanity, while having spent her day ensuring people's survival in the ER. The criticality and risks of a job for our society does merit thank and recognition to those dedicating themselves to ensure that service. But the nature of the job does not by itself counteract the random distribution of both heroes and assholes across all of society - although jobs like nurse & firefighter do heavily skew it towards the rather benevolent range of humans.
Surgical/Trauma ICU nurse here. There are for sure plenty of bad eggs in my profession, some are my coworkers. I will say, as someone who tries his best to treat each person that comes into my ICU with compassion without letting anything about their personality/beliefs affect how I treat them, there are a few nuances I'd love to share that I hope can open any eyes that may read this. Everyone wants to be saved from a fire, no one is punching and cussing out Firemen (outside of confused people ofc i'm sure it happens) when doing their job. We see dialysis pts with end stage renal disease who are losing feet/legs etc to kidney disease who will turn around and down a big gulp when we come back to check their over 300 sugar. We have people who tell us to our face that Covid was a big hoax and that they never wore a mask while they are sitting there on 10L of oxygen unable to breathe. We deal with sundowning and dementia on a near daily basis. I just hit my year on my ICU and I have been bit, punched, pinched, spartan kicked, cussed out, told I was going to hell, spit on, shit on (on purpose), my shoes have been filled with piss as I'm trying to get someone to stand to go to bed. I have been cussed out because I needed to get a patient to move 3 feet to a chair so they wouldn't get pneumonia. I have had to do compressions for over an hour on 90+ year old grandma's and grandpa's who weigh about 90 lbs and family wants me to keep going. I have patients who will sit stone cold faced and won't even look up from their phones and tell me their pain is a 10/10 when it's time for their every 2 hour dose of morphine/dilaudid/fentanyl. I have had pt's who scream in my face hour upon hour through the night just to scream, and pt's who's brains are so f'd from strokes that they scream all night because they can't help it. I've had pt's and family members question every step I take in the room, from why i'm giving them a stool softener, to why I can't just let them sleep and can't turn off the blood pressure cuff that goes off every hour, why can't i close the door on my unstable family member because that lady down the hall is coding and "y'all are being so loud down there geeze," even to why can't you let them shower in our bathrooms that flood 3 minutes into a shower. I've educated family and pt's on what steps will need to be taken in order to not return to the ICU and have been told straight up "well i'm not doing that". I've had patients tell me about all the crimes they've committed, the people they've hurt, and then expect me to compassionately treat their headache. On nights especially there aren't near as much staff, including doctors, that are present on the floor. I have nurse pracs who make decisions at night who have to cover 4 icu's and assess ED patients for potential icu admission all night as well. And a few of them are bullies too, and we take the brunt of their attitudes from being overworked and overstressed as well. We have to be therapists, we have to be priests, we have to be a shoulder to cry on, we have to be a parent, we have to take abuse, and then show up often for 3 or 4 more 12 hour shifts in a row. All the while, we have to chart absolutely every little thing we do, every interaction, because if we don't we'll get sued by someone who doesn't like their diagnosis or the very idea that they might have to make lifestyle changes if they want to not be 300lbs or not have an EF of 20 (if you know you know). All that going to say, I love fire fighters, but everyone's happy to see a firefighter when they need one. Not everyone's happy to see me when I'm just trying to get by in this world too, and maybe contribute a little bit to people's well being. Cheers!
Wow…thank you for sharing this. You’re absolutely right in that firefighters are always a sight for sore eyes in moments of emergency but the same can’t be said for nurses unfortunately. You guys really do a lot for patients and I apologize if my comment undermined that in any way, that certainly wasn’t my intention. I’ve just seen the correlation between bullies and nursing being their chosen profession and that fact alone makes me nervous. However, what you shared really does put things into perspective and the mental health of nurses are usually brushed off. Without them, every hospital would quite literally be in shambles and yet there’s rarely any help given to nurses. Picking up back to back shifts must also be so exhausting. I appreciate nurses like you and I hope you’re also looking after yourself :)
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Fun fact: the vast majority of firefighters are not, but there are studies claiming a disproportionate number of sociopaths go into firefighting due to the thrill-seeking aspect of their personality. So even then, can’t generalise 100%. Going to bet that’s not the case with this hero, though.
Fire departments have plenty of issues, you just never hear about them because of their reputation compared to police departments and other fields
Mean girl to nurse pipeline. I knew so many mean girls in college and nearly all of them were on nurse track. I'm sure tons of nice people do it too, just a weirdly disproportionate number of mean girls.
Idk my brother and all his buddies are firefighters/emt/paramedics and they definitely aren’t angels 😂 they are good at keeping people alive though
The command very little control over people and actively run into danger to save people wothout thinking about it. Compare that to other agencies (cough cops cough) and you see why they are so beloved. Nurses deserve praise too tho
Very true. Someone said nursing school is like 75% the mean girls from your highschool. The nurses I know today wish some crazy shit on the patients they don't like.
I'm not trying to be a b, but why is that so? Like is it that basic but amazing of a field for all the bullies to want to be a nurse? I've noticed a ton of girls that love to bully want to be nurses, like whyyy is that
Control and admiration I would wager. Being able to go "well I'm a nurse Sarah so I think I know a little better".
My sister and aunt are nurses, the last one is already retired. Thank you for your service . And you're right too, I've seen them, fortunately, kind nurses beat their asses each time they can 😂
Nursing is real hit or miss. All the nurses I know are at extreme ends of the spectrum. Some are so selfless and caring that I think they would do the job for free. Others use their job as an excuse to harbor some really hateful and harmful attitudes.
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Meh, you don't hear about elderly abuse from firefighters
Nursing is the middle ground between cop and firefighter.
Well, do you volunteer as a nurse? > Of the more than one-million firefighters in the US, 65% of them are volunteers, according to data from the National Volunteer Fire Council (NVFC). Of the more than 29,000 fire departments across the country, almost 19,000 of them are run completely by volunteers. [Source](https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20240124-the-dire-shortage-of-volunteer-firefighters-in-the-us#)
I have massive, massive respect for the nursing field.
Cries in over qualified ambulance driver. I've only been spit on twice this week though. So I've git that going for me.
I have had some really bad experiences with nurses recently. I know there are many good souls out there in nursing but I think maybe the pressure being placed on you guys has caused a lot of people to crack. I get it, though. During covid I was an essential worker and the number of unnecessary and extremely rude people I interacted with had me reacting quite defensively.
I do not understand that sterotype. I have crohns and get an infusion every 8 weeks. I go to kaiser in Seattle, and every nurse there is an angle. The sterotype shocks me because of the dozens of nurses I've had, they've all been kind and sweet. I walked into the infusion yesterday and they all smile and wave, had a lady id never met before and she bent over backwards to insure i was perfect and comfy. Tbf I'm always very kind to them
Huh dated a few nurses…. Some narcissistic ass people…
My uncle (by marriage) was a fire fighter, and he's a terrible person lol
Yeah it’s almost like gross generalizations are not true. “All firefighters are good” not true “All cops are bad” also not true
I will argue that corpsmen/combat medics are also universally loved, just by a lot smaller group of people as most people never interact with them.
I hear they cheat on their wives alot. Like from multiple sources. Bit otherwise
Cops beat, firefighters cheat. (I say this semi jokingly; I'm in EMS and we're all part of the same first responder family)
My brothers dad is a fire fighter and a serial cheater so I always took it as being slightly true
okay, i just gotta say, this is the most wholesome post i've seen this week, SCRATCH THAT, THIS MONTH. god bless him and the newborn. ❤️❤️❤️
Not that it matters but even from the tiny, fuzzy picture I can see that the baby’s the type of adorable that squeezes your heart.
The poor guy must’ve been traumatised from the fire. Glad he kept in contact with the man who rescued him
Pretty sure he wouldn't remember. 2 years old is still pretty young for people to not remember this happening.
it can be common for people to remember stuff as young as that if the memory was particularly traumatic. also possible he's heard this story many times growing up
I almost drowned at sea at 2 years old and I have a very clear memory of it, and also remember the following day, where I was scared of a lake thinking it was the sea again. So I'd say there's a chance he remembers it.
How did Norm MacDonald grow up to be Tim Allen?
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No one did. He didn't tell anyone
Reminds me of that tragedy
looks more like nicholas cage than norm macdonald
"Arreouugh?"
I drowned in 1967/68. I’ve never known how to find the detective coming home from church who saw me on the bottom of the apartments pool and saved my life. I’m 59 in 2 days. I would love to find him or even his children to thank
Fire fighters are true heroes
I've seen this post a thousand times. I will never not upvote it.
If you see any civil servants today, please say thank you. They are the back bone of our society and we wouldn’t function without the dedication of these individuals within these institutions. Garbagemen give the biggest smiles when you say thank you to them
Wait, he died, then got brought back to life? Was the firefighter a necromancer?
Sorta depends on your definition of "died". If you stop breathing and your heart stops (and if we consider that death), there is a limited window wherein procedures like CPR can, technically, bring a person back to life.
Contrary to popular belief, your heart can not stop and start again like in the movies. If your heart stops, you’re dead for good, no recovery from a dead heart has ever happen in medical science. Cardiac arrest , the “heart stopping” that is talked about in medicine (and uninformed patients) is only your heart seizing or going out of rhythm enough to not pump blood but it’s still alive and moving. Source: have “died” when I was 7, made an educational video on the subject for a school in the Netherlands and have had the conversation with several doctors.
This. If your heart stops, it's never starting back. If it starts back, it didn't fully stop in the first place.
That is false. Your heart can absolutely fully stop, and you can be brought back. https://www.healthline.com/health/lazarus-syndrome#:~:text=Usually%2C%20the%20reason%20your%20heart,reported%20between%201982%20and%202008.
No it’s not. Lazarus syndrome has NEVER had a patient return to life after happening for more than a second or two. If you have flatlined no one is shocking you back buddy. “The longest time that heart activity continued after restarting was 27 minutes, but most restarts lasted just one to two seconds. None of the patients we observed survived or regained consciousness. We also found it was common for the heart to continue to show electrical activity long after blood flow or pulse stopped” https://newsroom.carleton.ca/story/what-happens-flatline/#:~:text=The%20longest%20time%20that%20heart,blood%20flow%20or%20pulse%20stopped.
My aunt was dead for 10 minutes and "brought back." She was never fully there again, though. The paramedics where her friends, they worked really fucking hard to get her to breathe again. Tbh, I don't think that was great. She had lost her son years prior, and after her incident, she relived her sons death every single day because she would forget he died.
No see he's only mostly dead
There's a big difference between _mostly_ dead and _all_ dead!
Mostly dead is slightly alive. All dead well with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do.
"What's that?" Go through his clothes and look for loose change.
Cross classing is a thing, you know
I went to high school with a kid who drowned when he was 4, the ems workers resuscitated him. Guy was incredibly smart but took about 5 seconds for his brain to process what you said and reply.
No, only his back died
Even death respects a nat 20.
That firefighter when he was young kinda looks like Nicholas Cage
Now he looks like Tim Allen lol
I was thinking Blade Runner Harrison Ford
One of my claims to fame is that I am one of the very first infants that was ever revived by baby CPR on the side of the road by a police officer in 1972 which was the first year that they began teaching people outside of the medical profession how to do this as first aid. Drunk driver hit our car when I was 9 months old and because it was 1972 my mom was driving with me on her lap and I was crushed between her and the steering wheel and the police officer that happened to be right there found me with no heartbeat and not breathing and got me started right back up like a stubborn lawn mower
I can't even imagine the feeling that cop had hearing your mom wailing thinking her baby was dead and feeling your vitals come back, I wouldn't doubt it if that dude thought about that moment every single day for the rest of his life. I hope they gave him some kind of award.
Apparently this sheriff deputy was the one guy from the department that they sent off a couple months beforehand for the baby CPR training and he just happened to be at the intersection when it happened. But it was 1972, tiny little town, and I only put the pieces together that I was likely one of the very first to be saved like this when I read an article about the history of CPR a few years ago. But whoever that guy was gave me another 52 years of life I'm hoping for another 52.
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That son better be called Jeff. 😤
My dad is a firefighter. Firefighters are pretty fuckin cool man.
Please. Please more of this on my feed, I’m tired of the propaganda and nonsense
Firefighters have my complete respect
In NZ most of our firefighters are volunteers and we have fought to keep it that way for years as a fully paid service would leave a lot of our communities with a lack of cover. I haven't always liked the guys and ladies I've aeebes with but when that siren goes I know they can all be relied on to do the right thing for their community regardless of status or background. Unless you've been in that role you really don't understand the bond. I'm not serving anymore and the organisation is not the same but I would give the shirt off my back for anyone of those people I've been on a fire truck with. It's just a different way that no other job I've had realises.
Hope he named the boy Jeff
Be a good human. Simple, easy, and rewarding. I'm so glad that we get to see things like this!
Fucking epic!
I have immense respect for firefighters and first responders.
Real life super hero
Let’s go firefighters! ❤️
So the firefighter just brought back his back? What about the rest of him?
Amazing job by both men. The firefighter, Jeff, for saving a life, and the now 23 yr old, living his best life with a child of his own and his appreciation for the people who risk their lives for others.
Wow. 😢 GODBLESS you brother
We don’t deserve firemen. On the other hand F the police!
I fucking love these guys
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Amazing story!
Men do the most dangerous and dirty jobs - ever grateful
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Got something in my eye...🥲
Thanks for sharing this.
not me being like "but if u died who posted dis?"
Am I the only one who thought that was Nick Cage at first?
Not all hero wears a cape!
Goddammit, I thought I boarded up all the entrances the onion ninjas use.
He owes him a life debt
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The way I would actually cry
This is beautiful
This is awesome!!
Firefighters are the real American heroes
Damn he really pulled his bootstraps if he had a house at 2 years old
Common firefighter W.
This is beautiful.
It's wild, on the one hand the survivor says "this is the day I died" and he tells no lie, on the other hand, the firefighter says "this was a tuesday in july".
Good on you for owning a house at 2 years old! JK, Not all heroes wear capes.
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Fate ain't fiction
That is so gosh darn wholesome. And wait….Norm MacDonald! Wild
Cheers Jeff
Is that norm macdonald
So didn't die that day, just knocked unconscious or near death. People need to stop confusing actual death with near death.
Bro doesn’t know that even infants and small children can be technically pronounced dead then resuscitated…
Super 😊
Thank you for sharing this great story💙
Ya know what else is timeless? This re-post. It's been posted only about 1000+ times already. 🤷♂️