Yeah, I know what you mean. My baby daughter got poison Ivy. So I went out to rip out all the plants without being careful.
Well Mr. Nature boy, yours truly, got poison Ivy all over his arms. Lesson learned.
BTW, thank you for saving lives. There ARE those out there that really appreciate this kind of thing.
Thank you for that. I have been retired for quite a while now. Unfortunately, we lost most of the people we tried to save during my career. Defibrillators save a lot of lives... CPR sometimes, but not nearly as often as people seem to think.
One time we were on a fragile little old lady, by the time the paramedics showed up, every rib bone in her chest was broken by CPR. After the paramedics gave her medication and shocked her, we got a pulse. After the paramedics left, my crew was high fiving and congratulating themselves. Maybe I shouldn't have because they had done exactly what we were trained to do, but I asked them how long they thought she would now live and what would her quality of life be? The lady was put on life support at the hospital, she never regained consciousness, the machines keeping her alive were unplugged a week later.
But I did like the job and those who tried hard and had big hearts sometimes did a lot of good... often in ways that you would never expect.