Mrs Behavin
Well-Known Member
We lost one of our fellow co-workers last night.
We got an amublance report last night about a Code Blue coming in. They didnt really say what it was about. In the meantime I go out front to the waiting area to get something out of my purse when some family walk in wanting to know if Joe Baldwin had made it yet, that he was coming by ambulance. And I asked them, the Joe Baldwin that works here? (He was a EMT//tech in ER) They say yes. So in the back of my head Im thinking that he cannot be our code blue thats coming in. I run to the back and give a heads up just in case. Everyones jaw drops saying no this just cannot be him. About that time the ambulance pulls up and one of the nurse John runs out to help the paramedics. He looks back at us thru the glass ambulance doors and shakes his head yes as in yeah it is Joe.
We are all freaking out. We watch as they wheel him in and I swear to you his face was as blue as the ocean and the tears started flowing from everyone. It was just so unbelievable. I asked one of the paramedics what had happened to him (he was only 53 yrs old, entirely too young) He said when he got to Joes house that he told him that he couldnt breathe. About that time he fell to the ground. They couldnt get a pulse. So they went to intubate him and found a cough drop lodged in his throat!!! He got the cough drop out but Joe had already went into cardiac arrest. While he was in the ER they used 3 crash carts on him and were in the process of getting another one out of the ambulance when they decided to call it after about 45 min of working on him. There was not a dry eye in the whole ER. It amazed me though how EVERYONE pulled together as a team and worked their asses off trying to say a co-worker.
We got an amublance report last night about a Code Blue coming in. They didnt really say what it was about. In the meantime I go out front to the waiting area to get something out of my purse when some family walk in wanting to know if Joe Baldwin had made it yet, that he was coming by ambulance. And I asked them, the Joe Baldwin that works here? (He was a EMT//tech in ER) They say yes. So in the back of my head Im thinking that he cannot be our code blue thats coming in. I run to the back and give a heads up just in case. Everyones jaw drops saying no this just cannot be him. About that time the ambulance pulls up and one of the nurse John runs out to help the paramedics. He looks back at us thru the glass ambulance doors and shakes his head yes as in yeah it is Joe.
We are all freaking out. We watch as they wheel him in and I swear to you his face was as blue as the ocean and the tears started flowing from everyone. It was just so unbelievable. I asked one of the paramedics what had happened to him (he was only 53 yrs old, entirely too young) He said when he got to Joes house that he told him that he couldnt breathe. About that time he fell to the ground. They couldnt get a pulse. So they went to intubate him and found a cough drop lodged in his throat!!! He got the cough drop out but Joe had already went into cardiac arrest. While he was in the ER they used 3 crash carts on him and were in the process of getting another one out of the ambulance when they decided to call it after about 45 min of working on him. There was not a dry eye in the whole ER. It amazed me though how EVERYONE pulled together as a team and worked their asses off trying to say a co-worker.
