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Authors: Lisa Ladew
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Brand-new. Do you have experience working with drug addicts?"
Katerina shook her head, confusion on her face.
"I was expecting you to run protocol. Intubate him. What tipped you off that he was an overdose?"
Katerina thought hard, feeling more confused than ever. What had tipped her off? She finally spoke. "I don't know. I guess I just had a hunch."
West nodded, an amazed look on his face. “Keep listening to your hunches,” he said.
Katerina breathed a sigh of relief.
“Medic twelve,” the radio called.
“Medic twelve, standing by,” Katerina answered.
"Medic twelve, respond to 1480 Old Tetam Road, angina."
"10-4"
"Great," West muttered under his breath.
"What's wrong?"
"I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that's out of our district. We have a response cooperation agreement with the Tetam fire department. If they are busy, we respond to their district. This could be a long one."
Katerina nodded. "Is that a bad thing?"
"It can be. The Tetam fire department takes patients to Kaiser Hospital in Tetam County. But that's 45 miles past our border. We don't take the patients there. We bring them back into Westwood Harbor. Sometimes they complain or get upset."
"Oh," Katerina said, thinking hard about politics and insurance companies and hospitals. She could understand why the people would be upset, but what choice did they, the paramedics, have? They couldn’t leave their own district uncovered for too long. She hadn't realized how much went into being a paramedic. It was more than just the medical side of things.
She wondered how she was ever going to learn all this. For the first time she felt relief that she was getting an additional three months training/evaluation. That meant they didn't expect her to know this kind of stuff yet.
West put the ambulance into drive and began the journey out to Tetam County.
A silence dropped over them shortly after he started driving. Katerina sensed he was struggling to say something and she felt apprehensive. Finally he spoke, and Katerina got the sense he was choosing his words carefully. "I wanted to say I was sorry for the other night. I responded poorly to your request."
Katerina tried to laugh it off. "It was a good thing you did though, or things between us might be a bit stickier now," she said.
West smiled. "I'm glad you can joke about it, but I wanted to tell you why I did. I want us to have a clean slate."
Katerina could hear the sincerity in his words and she felt touched by his thoughtfulness. But what he said next shocked her.
"I used to be married," he said. "My wife, uh, died two years ago. I, well, I mourned her pretty hard and I never cleared our house of her stuff. I thought you would think it was weird…"
Katerina eyed his profile, seeing him in a new light. "I'm sorry about your wife."
When West spoke, his voice sounded deeper, rougher. "Yeah, it was hard."
This time, the silence between them did not seem quite as awkward.
After several minutes, West spoke again. "So tell me about you. Have you ever considered being a doctor? You seem to be a natural. I've never trained anyone who was as good as you are this quickly."
Katerina sighed. She didn't like to talk about this, but she supposed they could get it out of the way.
"I was going to be a doctor. I was three years into pre-med when my mother got sick and then died. That was two years ago. I spent so much time taking care of her that I lost my scholarship and I wasn’t able to go back. The summer after she died, I paid off the last bill collector and made some hard decisions. I worked two jobs all summer so that I could pay for paramedic school, and here I am."
West stayed silent. She waited for him to ask her why she hadn’t just gotten student loans to go back to school. Instead, he sucked in a breath and then spoke excitedly. "Your last name is Holloway! Kathleen Holloway? Was your mother Kathleen Holloway?"
Katerina smiled. "You knew her?"
"I knew of her only," West said.
Katerina shook her head, confusion on her face.
"I was expecting you to run protocol. Intubate him. What tipped you off that he was an overdose?"
Katerina thought hard, feeling more confused than ever. What had tipped her off? She finally spoke. "I don't know. I guess I just had a hunch."
West nodded, an amazed look on his face. “Keep listening to your hunches,” he said.
Katerina breathed a sigh of relief.
“Medic twelve,” the radio called.
“Medic twelve, standing by,” Katerina answered.
"Medic twelve, respond to 1480 Old Tetam Road, angina."
"10-4"
"Great," West muttered under his breath.
"What's wrong?"
"I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that's out of our district. We have a response cooperation agreement with the Tetam fire department. If they are busy, we respond to their district. This could be a long one."
Katerina nodded. "Is that a bad thing?"
"It can be. The Tetam fire department takes patients to Kaiser Hospital in Tetam County. But that's 45 miles past our border. We don't take the patients there. We bring them back into Westwood Harbor. Sometimes they complain or get upset."
"Oh," Katerina said, thinking hard about politics and insurance companies and hospitals. She could understand why the people would be upset, but what choice did they, the paramedics, have? They couldn’t leave their own district uncovered for too long. She hadn't realized how much went into being a paramedic. It was more than just the medical side of things.
She wondered how she was ever going to learn all this. For the first time she felt relief that she was getting an additional three months training/evaluation. That meant they didn't expect her to know this kind of stuff yet.
West put the ambulance into drive and began the journey out to Tetam County.
A silence dropped over them shortly after he started driving. Katerina sensed he was struggling to say something and she felt apprehensive. Finally he spoke, and Katerina got the sense he was choosing his words carefully. "I wanted to say I was sorry for the other night. I responded poorly to your request."
Katerina tried to laugh it off. "It was a good thing you did though, or things between us might be a bit stickier now," she said.
West smiled. "I'm glad you can joke about it, but I wanted to tell you why I did. I want us to have a clean slate."
Katerina could hear the sincerity in his words and she felt touched by his thoughtfulness. But what he said next shocked her.
"I used to be married," he said. "My wife, uh, died two years ago. I, well, I mourned her pretty hard and I never cleared our house of her stuff. I thought you would think it was weird…"
Katerina eyed his profile, seeing him in a new light. "I'm sorry about your wife."
When West spoke, his voice sounded deeper, rougher. "Yeah, it was hard."
This time, the silence between them did not seem quite as awkward.
After several minutes, West spoke again. "So tell me about you. Have you ever considered being a doctor? You seem to be a natural. I've never trained anyone who was as good as you are this quickly."
Katerina sighed. She didn't like to talk about this, but she supposed they could get it out of the way.
"I was going to be a doctor. I was three years into pre-med when my mother got sick and then died. That was two years ago. I spent so much time taking care of her that I lost my scholarship and I wasn’t able to go back. The summer after she died, I paid off the last bill collector and made some hard decisions. I worked two jobs all summer so that I could pay for paramedic school, and here I am."
West stayed silent. She waited for him to ask her why she hadn’t just gotten student loans to go back to school. Instead, he sucked in a breath and then spoke excitedly. "Your last name is Holloway! Kathleen Holloway? Was your mother Kathleen Holloway?"
Katerina smiled. "You knew her?"
"I knew of her only," West said.
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