Entry 2

Goddamn kids. I swear, if I have to keep another one of you alive because of an injury, I'm gonna beat you all senseless.
Today makes 3 potentially-fatal injuries I've had to prevent/remedy in the last two weeks. The following is my dossier.

Subject: Elliot
Diagnosis: Dehydration
Signs: Stumbling, slurred speech, lowslung eyes, muscle failure
Hazards: Almost fell into razor wire after falling out of Romeo formation during morning PT.
Action: Caught as falling, with Sgt B's help managed to keep off the wires and back onto feet on the road. Got some water in, and stayed with patient until fully conscious and at respectable muscle levels. Ran back with Sgt and patient to platoon formation.
Follow up: Patient was well hydrated and restored back to full health by midday, no real trauma. Sketchy memory of the event, but nothing damaging.

Subject: K
Diagnosis: Shattered Patella, Shock
Signs: Visible trauma to the patella (kneecap) and severe pain (Identified as a 7 out of 10)
Hazards: Patient slammed into an airvent while playing game, destroyed the kneecap on collision, due to the intense and sudden pain, body reverted into shock, threatened convulsions.
Action: Ran onto court, ordered blankets and ice, called 911, stabilized and kept conscious until EMTs arrived and we moved him to a stretcher where he was taken to a hospital. Kid's a trooper.
Follow up: Patient in good spirits. Had a solid surgery, went better than expected, a full recovery is not expected, but 70% capacity is likely. Returning to school at week's end.

Subject: A.S.
Diagnosis: Low Blood Sugar, Head Laceration, Coma, Concussion
Signs: Unconscious, smashed head into ground, rapid blood loss, rating of 3 on GCS
Hazards: Patient passed out in class, slipped and fell to floor, smashing head into ground and spurting blood. No visible signs of activity.
Action: Ordered the class into a basic first aid response: 911, blankets, ice, authorities. Preformed AVPU and GCS. Ratings of U and 3-4 respectively. Tried various methods to wake up, name calling, pain induction (ear pinching) etc. Eventually aroused consciousness, continued evaluating patient every 15 seconds, saw increased activity until 13. Patient denied an ambulance to 911, EMTs deemed unnecessary. Patient fed and watered until back in action 15 minutes later.


I mean goddamn, how many of you do I have to save until people stop trying to die around me? Head wounds? Surgical necessitating problems? RAZOR WIRE?? I swear I will beat every one of you until you stop this junk.
This is exactly why I need combat medic training, people tend to assume it's alright to die around me and apparently I'm the only one who ever balls up and saves them. It would be nice to have certification for this, and a larger knowledge base.

In other news, I completely wrote my literary analysis paper in 2 hours before class (we were given a month to do it) and about 1/3 of it was purely physics. Have fun with that teacher.

Also got a 60 on econ, which was the second highest in the class, giving me a B in the strange world of the econ grading scale.

That is all,
Angel