This Saturday we took a little premature baby to the hospital because she been suffering of infant apnea, a condition of seemly sudden and unexplainable respiratory arrest. Basically the baby becomes blue and unresponsive, and many times can kill a baby if emergency medical intervention is not immediately established.

So I took the baby straight into the ER, with the mother carrying her. The baby was fine and the nurse said she they can wait outside in the waiting room. So I escorted the baby outside to the waiting room, and I proceeded to my paperwork. After 2 minutes later, the mother who is carrying the little baby asked "Excuse me, but is my baby ok?". I looked at the baby, and noticed her color change. She had a pulse, so I picked her up...and her head just titled on the side and she became limp....

I took the baby and walked fast into the pediatric ER, and told nurses "I think she is apneic again". The nurse saw the baby and said "Oh my God". So while the nursing staff scrambled to get everyone out of the way in the already crowded ER for the life support machines, I opened my mouth to fit a air tight seal over both the tiny nose and mouth of the baby, and started to exhale small, rapid, slight forceful breaths. . It was the first time I did such a thing, usually we use a bag valve mask if any patient needed ventilation assistance. A few times I think she would come out of it, and I would feel relieved and tell the staff "she is breathing again"..only to see 2 seconds later, she ceased breathing yet again. So I kept at it until the nurses and doctors were ready.

Later on, the ER staff commended me on my "quick decisive action and total lack of self regard" for what I did, but I felt uneasy. I felt they were being extra nice to me because they may think I will complain to their supervisors that they made my little premature baby with a breathing sickness wait outside the waiting room, only for her to meet her near demise. I felt uneasy because I did not recognize the baby stopped breathing until only after the mother would point it out to me. What if I wasn't there to see it? Did I take the life of little baby too lightly because of apathy? Was what I did really called for any praise or was it just convenient for me to get it?

More pictures of the Lunar Year Flushing Parade....

My ambulance (do u see me in it?)

Me and Joe, the guy who took all these pictures.

My ambulance in the parade.

The crown victoria patrol car. This thing cranks alot more torque
civilian crown vics....I snapped my neck more than once when I press
the gas from a stop.

The greedy lion. Though it looks pretty and all, according to folk lure
it only wants you to feed him red envelopes. And if you don't feed him
the red envelopes, he grants you bad luck.

Another view of the capitalist harbinger of bad luck. BOOOOOOOOOO!

Lawyers....dressed up in suits even at a parade!

Very intimidating. These guys just stared at me hard all the way.

You gotta love this.

Geee..I wished I can carry around a huge sword in the parade.

This is the loudest float in the parade. Man, did she talk alot.

The very scary 10 foot tall demon guy.

The year of the dog.

I am not quite sure who she is, but the first thing that popped in my head was Sailor Moon.

2006 Lunar Year Parade at Flushing , Queens

I didn't know until later on, that our ambulance were supposed to march
inside the parade as well!  I was wondering why the ambulance
didn't have any equipment inside it haha..  It was weird
smiling and waving at people constantly.

 
This guy is supposed to be a Taiwanese aborigines boy.

YEAH!! Taiwan representin'. I personally don't find much
nationalistic pride in this float however, but these guys seemed to be
having fun.

I could not find any Taiwanese flags, but they were plenty of Korean flags. Good enough.

The Yorkie I am holding is named "Frazier".

This definitely will be one of the highlights of the year for me. And its only January!

Hungry?

The modern, health-conscious EMT chooses baby carrots over doughnuts for snacks.

Baby carrots. The new doughnut.

At my chiropractor's office.

Receptionist: "Hey , just asking.... do you like your job? Cause I was always so fascinated by emergency medicine."

I looked at her as if she had three heads.

Simpsons DVD Season 7

Barney: "I'm Barney Gumble and I am an alcoholic"
Lisa: "Uh, Mister Gumble...this is a girl scouts meeting."
Barney: "Is it? Or is it that you girls can't admit you have a problem"

Misplaced refinement.

So I went to this small French lotion boutique shop in the Greenwich Village with Christy.

Christy (In Mandarin): "wow Charlie, this stuff is expensive"
Me (In loud English): "Well, this isn't exactly Walmart, you know."
Christy: "SHHH!! Shuuuut uup!!"

EMT on the verge of a strike.....

Christmas is upon us

Somewhere, a  2006 Gospel Camp staff is already formed and unified:

And somewhere, someone is not stressed out about the MTA strike.

Somewhere a father is sleeping, dreaming of one day being united with his son...

And somewhere, a son is dreaming of when he will get his next pork ear...

Something I always wanted to say to a cop..if I had the audacity:

"HEY....who took the jelly out of YOUR donut?"

-from the movie Snatch