Tag: Family

• The Seat Doesn’t Remember You

  

  Thinking back on time spent at my current agency, and the replaceable nature of EMS positions and the care and effort we take to make sure we are able to move on to other jobs while the wheels keep turning behind us.

  Dave

  March 31, 2026

  EMS, Family, Professional Pride, provider safety, Public Safety, Random Thoughts

  EMS, Family, future, job-satisfaction, life, mvc, thoughts

• How do you say Goodbye?

  

  Two weeks ago, during what I thought would be a routine telepsychiatry appointment, Monalisa told me something I wasn’t prepared to hear. Our next appointment would be our last. We were reviewing how the medications were doing. A recent increase in Effexor had helped resolve a brief resurgence of depressive symptoms that had begun to…

  Dave

  January 16, 2026

  Compassion, Family, Mental Health, Outside Life, patients, Random Thoughts

  Family, memories, mental health, remember, sad, thinking

• The Chair

  

  On Location My first real job out of college wasn’t in medicine, or anywhere near an ambulance. It was in lighting — the kind that makes concerts glow, trade shows sparkle, and corporate galas look like the Grammys. The company was called On Location Lighting Systems, or OLLS, based out of northern Kentucky just south…

  Dave

  November 11, 2025

  Compassion, Family, Humor, mental health, Outside Life, Random Thoughts

  busy, coworkers, Family, friends, memories, mental health, regret, remember, sad, thinking, work