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I’ve got a cold.
Or something. And it sucks.
I’m sitting at home, slurping up Campbell’s Chicken Noodle Soup and trying to make myself feel better.
I don’t know if it’s a reaction to the Tetanus booster I got on Monday or if it’s the cold that one of the other students in the Instructor class had.
Whatever it is, it’s taking the starch out of me. And it sucks.
I’ve been taking the instructor classes at the American Red Cross for the last couple of weeks and I teach my first class as a member of the paid instructor staff next week.
In the beginning, I’ll be teaching lay responders (the average person) Adult, Child and Infant CPR/AED and First Aid. I hope to be able to bridge to CPR for the Professional Rescuer soon and then I’d like to teach the Emergency Response course. That’s equal to the DOT First Responder curriculum.
I’m co-instructing my first class on September 3rd. I’ll let you know how it goes.
On Friday morning, I’ll be learning how to do this.
The County Sheriff’s office is training selected SAR members to be part of the HIT (Helicopter Insertion Team).
I’m grinning already.
Whew.
I then went to the bookstore to pick up what I needed.
When I got home, I dumped the books on my kitchen counter and snapped a photo. These are the REQUIRED books for the Fall quarter.
Hear that Folks? REQUIRED.
That means there are even more additional books that are recommended, but this God-awful stack is the required, “gotta have it” material.
It’s been a while since I posted anything new, so here’s what’s going on. As you may or may not know, before I can be accepted into a paramedic education program, I have to be a current, working EMT for a year. So, that means I have to get re-certified as an EMT Basic. (I knew I never should have let those certs lapse!)
Last night I took the pre-test for the local community college EMT class. Everyone I talked to said it would be a killer test, but I thought it was pretty easy. It was all based on the Red Cross Emergency Response Curriculum, which is the basic DOT First Responder criteria. So, it turns out that there’s 40 slots for students in that class and about 150 people were testing last night. Most were guys that looked like they were young firefighters, hoping to add EMT skills to their repertoire prior to getting on with a local department. There were only a few older guys like me. I was planning on taking a full time, 20 day WEMT course, but after talking to my adviser, she suggested that I take EMT class at the CC and apply those 10 credits toward my degree. Duh! At any rate, if it should happen that I don’t get accepted into the Community College program, I can either still take theWEMT in October (which I’m actually registered for) or apply for the County EMT program that Search and Rescue sponsors, and thus will cost me nothing! There’s lots of options. I’m also excited because I didn’t realize how close I was to getting most of the AA degree requirements knocked out, so I can move on to a regular university.
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