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.