How about a Believe it or Not stories!!

[blowry]

I'll start!

When I was around 10 yrs old...just a few years back LOL ( I wish!)
my grandfather raised chickens (yes for eating). He also had a rooster so...he would get baby chicks too! Well, I asked him for a fertilized egg.

We had the type of radiators that were cast iron...not the aluminum ones of today. The way my bedroom was I had them that were on two walls making a nice corner incubator...I also had wall to wall carpeting. I took some hay from Pepe along with the egg and placed it in the corner of the radiator....I would turn it everyday (I saw baby chicks being born at the Science Museum so thought...I am going to try this!) It takes 21 days for a chick to be born. I told my Mom that I could hear clicking inside the egg. Of course she played the game with me but, really thought I was out of my mind! On the 21st my Mom told me that there probably wasn't anything inside the egg besides an egg and told me to open it ...I cracked the egg open and there was a full size chick in it!! If I had waited another day or 2 it probably would have hatched on it's own.


Believe it or Not!

[Tink]

Awwwwwwwwwwww poor chickie!

When I was working on the ambulance service, things were still done the old fashioned way. We were on-call from our homes and rushed to the ambulance as needed. When we did CPR it was mouth to mouth without masks or appliances of any kind. More often than not, when you do CPR, the patient ends up losing the contents of their stomach from the strenuous chest compressions; so the person doing the respirations ended up getting a taste of their last meal.

On one occassion I was called and told since the patient was located between my house and the ambulance, I should go directly to the scene and the ambulance would meet me there. I beat the ambulance by several minutes, and found a lady whose family had dropped in for a visit and found her dead in bed. I pulled her onto the floor and started CPR with her family members standing over us wide eyed and frantic.

She'd obviously gotten up and had strawberries and cream for breakfast, then gone back to bed; probably because she didn't feel well. So there I was, doing CPR by myself when her breakfast decided to come back up directly into my mouth just as my partners came running in. The family members never even noticed as I spit out her breakfast and continued CPR while the other EMTs scooped her onto the stretcher and rolled her away.
When we got to the hospital, one of the nurses met me with a bottle of mouthwash, so obviously one of my partners had noticed. LOL
BLECH!

Believe it or Not!

[Janet]

Oh Tink, my stomach is just rolling! Time for me to move to another thread.

[blowry]

Originally Posted by Tink

Awwwwwwwwwwww poor chickie!

When I was working on the ambulance service, things were still done the old fashioned way. We were on-call from our homes and rushed to the ambulance as needed. When we did CPR it was mouth to mouth without masks or appliances of any kind. More often than not, when you do CPR, the patient ends up losing the contents of their stomach from the strenuous chest compressions; so the person doing the respirations ended up getting a taste of their last meal.

On one occassion I was called and told since the patient was located between my house and the ambulance, I should go directly to the scene and the ambulance would meet me there. I beat the ambulance by several minutes, and found a lady whose family had dropped in for a visit and found her dead in bed. I pulled her onto the floor and started CPR with her family members standing over us wide eyed and frantic.

She'd obviously gotten up and had strawberries and cream for breakfast, then gone back to bed; probably because she didn't feel well. So there I was, doing CPR by myself when her breakfast decided to come back up directly into my mouth just as my partners came running in. The family members never even noticed as I spit out her breakfast and continued CPR while the other EMTs scooped her onto the stretcher and rolled her away.
When we got to the hospital, one of the nurses met me with a bottle of mouthwash, so obviously one of my partners had noticed. LOL
BLECH!

Believe it or Not!

EWWWW! Did she survive?

[Tink]

Sorry Janet, obviously I don't tell that story often. It just isn't good party conversation.

No Brenda, sadly she didn't.

[DianaB]

I can handle a lot of nasty things, but Tink, I couldn't do that!

[Forgivenmom5]

I admire you, Tink. That is TRUELY putting someone else before yourself.

[Gina]

Tink you are one special lady I will say. Not many including myself could do that