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I wish you could comprehend a wife's horror at 3 in the morning as I check her husband of 40 years for a pulse and find none. I start CPR anyway, hoping to bring him back, knowing intuitively that it's too late, but wanting his wife and family to know everything possible was done to save his life. I wish you could read my mind as I respond to a call. "Whats wrong with the patient? It is minor or life threatening? Is the caller really in distress or is he waiting for us with a gun?" I wish you could be in the emergency room as a doctor pronounces dead the beautiful five-year old girl that I have been trying to save during the past 25 minutes, who will never go on her first date or say the words "I love you Mommy and Daddy" again. I wish you could know the frustration I feel in my cruiser or the cab of the truck or squad, with my foot pressing down hard on the pedal, my siren and air horn blasting again and again, as you fail to yield the right-of-way at an intersection or in traffic. BUT, when you need us, however, your first comment on our arrival will be "It took you forever to get here" or "What took you so long?" I wish you could know my thoughts as I help extricate a girl of teenage years from the remains of her automobile. What if this was a family member, or a friend? What are their parents' reaction going to be when they open the door to find a police officer with hat in hand? I wish you could know how it feels to walk in the back door and greet my parents and family, not having the heart to tell them that I nearly didn't come back from the last call. I wish you could know how it feels dispatching police officers, firefighters, and EMS crews out when we call for them and our heart drops because no one answers back, or to hear a bone chilling 911 call of a wife or child needing assistance. I wish you could feel the hurt as people verbally, and sometimes physically, abuse us or belittle what we do, or as they express their attitudes of "It'll never happen to me." I wish you could realize the physical, emotional, and mental drain, or missed meals, lost sleep and forgone social activities, in addition to all of the tragedy my eyes have seen. I wish you could understand what it feels like to have a little boy tugging at your arm and asking "Is Mommy ok?", not even being able to look into his eyes without tears from your own eyes, and not knowing what to say. Or to have to hold back a long time friend who watches his buddy having rescue breathing done on him as they take him away in the ambulance. You know all along he did not have his seat belt on, a sensation that I have become all too familiar with. Unless you have live this kind of life, you will never truly understand or appreciate who I am, who we are, or what our job really means to us. I wish you could though... Pass this on to everyone you know and keep sending it on. Appreciate and support the local EMS workers, firefighters and law enforcement officers in your area. One day, they'll probably be saving your property, or your own life. When you see them coming with lights flashing, move out of the way quickly, then.... Pray for them
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