DiveMedic Goes Silent

As I do a few times every week, I clicked on "Confessions of a Street Pharmacist" to catch up on his blog but this time received the message that the blog is gone.  I first discovered DiveMedic on a link via Borepatch quite some time ago and have been a regular reader.  I know we're both Floridians, and by the areas he posted about, I assume he's located in the Orlando area.  That's pretty much an hour and change drive from here - depending on exactly where you're driving to. 

As a fellow gunnie and former scuba diver (currently without gear), we had more than a few perspectives in common.  I have to say I learned a few really astounding things from him about how badly paramedics are treated in this area.  And I learned a few neighborhoods in Orlando that I really don't want to drive through!

A story I've never told on this blog is that when I was just out of high school a hundred years ago, I worked as an emergency room orderly and nurse's aide.  As a first year college student, I helped with suturing, setting bones, and was on the hospital "code" team - going around the hospital doing (essentially) CPR on people in cardiac arrest.  In many ways it was the most satisfying job I ever had: people would come in bloody, messy, bleeding, and in my limited way I helped clean them, sew them up, and send them home looking and feeling better than when they came in.  I worked with a lot of paramedics, and was certified in first aid, but most of what I did was after the first aid was rendered and the person was in the hospital. 

The last month has been pretty rough for him, and being a guy, I didn't have much I could say that seemed useful.

Sorry to see you gone, DM.  You're always welcome around here.