Air Ambulance

21 June 2008

So today was spent trying to get Marci’s computer back in working order. I almost forgot how much fun it is sitting in front of a computer that does not want to do what I want it to do… To add to the excitement, try downloading drivers and such from a satellite connection that makes dialup look like broad band. Long story short her computer now gets on the internet and has office on in. It is still not back to normal but that is about all I could handle in one day.

The sad part is I was unable to do what she really needed, I could not get her hard drive to talk to anything. I used an external enclosure and my computer to try and read it but both proved unable. I can hear the thing spinning but all the 1’s and 0’s want to stay inside and don’t want to come out any play =( So without the drive talking to anything that I have I can’t get all of her pictures, music and documents off the silly thing. Yea big lesson for backups. I guess she has to decide what the information is worth to her because I am sure that there are companies that can get the info off for here and would love to charge her for it too.

OK so other then the computer stuff I flew yesterday and got mixed emotions after the flight. It was a good flight and a very important mission. I was an ambulance in the sky for 12 folks. I flew to 5 fields and picked up patients that could easily walk and others that were on stretchers.

The thing that sucked for me was that I pick up a girl that was hurt and on a stretcher and in pain but had to fly her around to other stops before getting to the hospital. I know that she was in pain because the flight dc kept asking me to “make the bumps smaller”. I did everything that I could, flew slow, landed fast “easier to make the greaser landings”, and taxied VERY slow for her. But I still knew she was in pain. So for me it sucks because I am thinking that everything that I do is hurting this lady in the back, but I guess I need to look at it as I am helping her to get to a place that can offer her more care and fix her up.

So yes I did a great thing and maybe saved her life by bringing her to the hospital, I just wish that it could have been a more direct route. I am sure that if she was really that critical it would have been and I did pick up other patients that were on liters after the first girl so I know that I was needed elsewhere and we only have so many planes and can only do so much. I just hate to know that I was causing someone to be in pain, but then again I guess I was taking her to get help so it’s all how you want to look at it.

I was a bad boy today, I skipped the gym =o Yea I guess it’s ok every now and then. I will make sure that I am there tomorrow after my flight. I do feel a little guilty though, I wanted to work out but I just kept getting pulled to do other things like eat lunch, dinner, drop off laundry and fix the computer. I am glad that I can help out with some of the computer stuff and that I was able to get Marci back online so she can keep plugging away on her masters.

Well I would upload this to the web but my internet is down, an all too common occurrence over here. Maybe it will be up later for you all.

Night