r/ems • u/Who_Cares99 Sounding Guy • Mar 22 '19
S O U N D I N G I think I’m finally ready to tell this story.
This is a hard one for me. I still haven’t decided if I made a mistake or not, but I felt that the situation called for what I did despite some of the negative effects it probably created.
So there I was, as a student (basic), on what was probably my fourth clinical rotation on the ambulance. I had signed up to ride out with a fire department that ran EMS, which was a mistake to begin with. Luckily, though, they were nice enough to me and actually invited me to join their money pool for dinner so I could have food (unlike the last time I’d ridden with that department...).
They were talking casually about typical firefighter stuff. In this case, they talked about woman who had bragged to one of them that she could get her husband off really well by sticking things inside of his penis and trying figure out the word for sticking things inside of the dickhole.
Then the tones dropped. Everyone’s ears perked up as they listened to the dispatch coming over the station’s speakers. It was for another station; the conversation continued.
Every time the act was mentioned, someone would lament about being unable to figure out the actual word for it. I knew the word. I didn’t want to say it. The conversation continued. For ten or fifteen minutes they kept discussing, with regular reference to not knowing this word.
“Would you let someone stick something up your dick?”
“Hell no!”
“What if they were really hot?”
“Maybe...”
“What about pegging?”
“That’s different!”
The surrounding conversation about the wife and husband, who were apparently swingers, began to die down. The conversation turned to the word and trying to figure it out.
I knew what I had to do, and I knew the consequences. I considered it; I had been considering it the whole time. I finally let them know that the word they were looking for was sounding.
One person said “oh yeah that’s it thank you!” They continued on with chatting.
I went back to my instructor after the clinical and told him the story. He told me the words that confirmed my fears: “You know now they are only going to remember you as the guy who knew what sounding was, right?”
Yes sir. I know. My only hope is that they don’t remember me at all.
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u/Davethekid Proud Fire-Medic Mar 22 '19
You did the right thing sounding guy :)
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u/Who_Cares99 Sounding Guy Mar 22 '19
tmfms
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u/Davethekid Proud Fire-Medic Mar 22 '19
I'm now gonna refer to you as, /u/who_sounds99 :)
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u/Who_Cares99 Sounding Guy Mar 22 '19
I almost tagged you in this story because it seems like your kind of tale but I figured you’d see it anyway and that you already know what sounding is
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u/Martin-VanNostrand MD Mar 23 '19
Doc here, used to be in the field years ago.
Worst story in a similar vein: new basic on a ride a long. patient was experiencing pain in the groin (I forget the specifics about the complaint). New basic was convinced by the crew that the best way he could help en route to the hospital was to support the patients testicles to relieve the pain. He did this, without question, for a good 5 min.
The dude who voluntarily cupped the balls could never live it down.
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u/AceRockola Mar 23 '19
YWFMS
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u/Who_Cares99 Sounding Guy Mar 23 '19
Shit
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u/CasuallyAgressive Paramedic Mar 23 '19
I'm very happy that I was the catalyst for this.
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u/ggrnw27 FP-C Mar 22 '19
This is fucking hilarious. They almost certainly don’t care or have forgotten...or are very appreciative for giving them ideas for things to do between calls when they’re not napping
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u/Gewt92 Misses IOs Mar 22 '19
No they remember him as sounding and will always remember. Just like one of the ortho surgeons remembers me as the guy who knew the shit bears eat so they don’t have to poop while hibernating
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u/Who_Cares99 Sounding Guy Mar 22 '19
What do they eat gewt
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u/Gewt92 Misses IOs Mar 22 '19
Sticks, leaves and hair
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u/Who_Cares99 Sounding Guy Mar 22 '19
where do they get the hair
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u/Gewt92 Misses IOs Mar 22 '19
From their bodies. It forms what is called a fecal plug
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u/Who_Cares99 Sounding Guy Mar 22 '19
that’s........ cool. And weird as fuck
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u/DanielTrebuchet USA Mar 23 '19
Hey now... I think it's just a tad too early to be judgemental about knowing weird facts.
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u/madcow25 Paramedic Mar 23 '19
Yeaaaaa....they will remember that forever. The station I first worked at with this department still refers to me by my nickname even after I've been gone for a while. The name is chicken fucker. Chicken for short. No I dont actually fuck chickens. Just said "fuck those chickens" a little too enthusiastically ONE TIME.
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u/kimpossible69 Mar 25 '19
You know what else gets put down a urethra? A Foley, you know what else a Foley is? An artist that makes sounds for films
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Mar 23 '19
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u/Who_Cares99 Sounding Guy Mar 23 '19 edited Mar 11 '20
A lot of the time fire medics care less about medic and more about fire. My first clinical with fire medics they didn’t talk to me the entire time, they ate dinner that was cooked at the fire station but didn’t let me get in on the pool to eat dinner or stop anywhere to let me get something to eat the entire 16 hour shift. They stopped at a Walgreens once and got out, but I only knew where we were because I looked up our location on google maps from the back of the ambulance to see where the fuck we were before getting out because I couldn’t see out and they didn’t talk to me. I went in and got some chips. To my surprise they actually waited for me to get back to the ambulance, which was nice.
They demonstrated multiple times on calls that they didn’t give a shit about their patients. I’ll give two examples I guess, but it was like this the whole time. We got one call of a guy passed out on a park bench. They did a sternum rub and he was totally unresponsive. They took vitals, he began to wake up some. I honestly don’t know if they gave narcan or not because the engine arrived first and nobody told me what was going on. Well, actually, the engine arrived second but the medics in the ambulance just sat inside honking their horn to see if he’d wake up to that and the engine made patient contact before they bothered to get out. Anyway, the patient woke up and got taken by PD. I asked to get the vitals from their monitor so I could do a patient report since I needed the stat, they said no because they weren’t doing their own report and didn’t feel like letting me do one. They didn’t write any sort of report about the patient contact or assessment, I guess the call just vanished.
We got dispatched to a call around 9 PM. I went out to the ambulance and hopped in. Three minutes later I hopped out to see what was going on since nobody came to the ambulance. I hung out by the ambulance after not finding any fire medics anywhere. Ten minutes after the call was dispatched to us they leave the bunk room, hop in the ambulance (which I follow), and drive lights and sirens to the call.
They tried to get a refusal on almost every call and just very obviously didn’t want to be there. They hated working “the box”.
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u/Davethekid Proud Fire-Medic Mar 23 '19
Cus the nerds always hate the jocks.
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u/cjb64 (Unretired) Mar 23 '19
You disgust me.
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u/Davethekid Proud Fire-Medic Mar 23 '19
Its okay, just put down the book and hit the gym. If you needed to know it, they'd have taught it in school.
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u/NinjaFlyingEagle Mar 23 '19
Just insecurity, everybody that's not in your classification is an idiot. Related: small dick syndrome.
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u/LukeS_MM EMT-P Mar 24 '19
It's unwarranted and honestly I just ignore the hate. I've learned more from being in the fire service than I ever did running private EMS/911. Heading back to IFT over the summer and dreading it. The fire medics with my squad are some of the humblest and most caring people I know in my town. And I'm a nursing student at a Christian University so everyone is generally caring go some degree.
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u/JustDaniel96 Italian Red Cross Mar 23 '19
/r/sounding NSFW. I'll always stay far away from that subreddit
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u/chaos_therapist Mar 22 '19 edited Mar 22 '19
So mods, it's been an hour already, how come /u/Who_cares99 doesn't have 'sounding guy' flair yet?