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By Fred Needham
One day I was listening to my scanner and a call came out for an unconscious women close to where I live. The radio said this was a call holding because all available ambulances were already on calls.
My son who is also an EMT-E was at the house. We went down to the corner where a reserve ambulance was housed and responded to the call.
When we arrived, we discovered a 25-year-old woman unconscious on the couch. She had just had a baby 3 weeks earlier.
She also had an insulin pump attached. I took her blood sugar and when it read 25, I told my son and fire crew that also arrived that we needed to get her in the ambulance.
Once inside, I started an IV and administered D5W. Half way through the ampule, she opened her eyes and said “Hi.” At that moment I knew that this was for me.