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Calling 911Ramblings from the world of a dispatcher
9月19日 Long time goneIt's been a long time since i've posted. Things seem so busy anymore and I don't have much free time for computer fun. As far as me i'm doing good still working at the PD and just got my 10 year service aware. I've started on a new career path though and am going to college as well as working full time. I've decided it's time to start on a new path. I've given myself to helping the comunity through saving lives in times of crisis both medically as well as physcially by sending them the help they need and getting criminals off the street. The job has been very rewarding at times and very depressing also. We deal with the bad side of life most of the time and almost always with people in crisis. I've decided I want to work at the other end of the spectrum by working with younger children as an Elementary school teacher. I would like to have a hand in trying to instill a love a learning and positive values to our countries youth. So far it is going well although there is basically no free time. I still have to work overtime at work along with a full load of classes. This semester i'm taking US History, Public Speaking, Personal Welness, and Music Appreciation. I hope it continues to go well as I am scheduled to train at work for two months straight starting next month. I had been able to occasionally work on schoolwork while at work during our rare down times. I had talked to my boss before I chose to go to school and told him I would not be able to train anymore and he said Ok that he understood. However about a week ago I was told I would get to train anyway it didn't matter if I wanted to do it or not. This really disappointed me and just made me more sure that I am doing the right thing by changing careers. I am hoping these will be the last two new people we will have to train for awhile and that we will be able to stay at full staff for a bit. Otherwise i'm not sure what I will decide to do as training everyday for months at a time and having to watch every single thing your trainee does really drains me and stresses me out. I tend to be exhausted at the end of the day partially from the stress of it and partially just from being right next to the same person all day everyday even if I really like the person. Oh well guess I don't get a choice in this one unless I want to switch jobs now which I would prefer not to do. I am trying to get ahead on my 2 online classes so it will be a little easier on me. I'm sure I will make it through ok it would have just been easier without having to train.
Hope everyone is doing well and I will try to update occasionally.
Irish 4月7日 BackI'm back at least a little bit after being away since October. I just have not had time to keep up with my blog and was tired of trying. It's has been a busy 6 months since I last posted.
The girls are good. T was a punk princess, C was Elmo, and S was a princess for Halloween. In November we had T's birthday she is 7 now, in 1st Grade and growing up so fast. In December my Grandma, my Mom's Mom died on December 23rd after being sick and having complications from diabetes for a long time. This was very hard for all of us as we are a very close family but especially for my Mom who's dad died when she was 8 around the same time right before Christmas. Christmas was as good as could be expected and our family stayed close together for the holidays and afterward. My Mom's foster son J has also been put in a boys home that has intense counciling to try to deal with his anger and abandanment issues. He has been with our family part-time since he was 4 and full-time since he was 8. He had problems with being suicidal in both December and January but is doing some better now although he is still having problems dealing with his anger. He has never really dealt with the issues that his Mom abandoned him several times when he was younger and has had anger and emotional problems from the time my Mom first got him. He had done really well for several years until he hit puberty and now has had a very rough go of it. We go and visit him often and are hopefull that he will be able to work through the program and be able to come back home this summer and be a much happier boy.
Work has been very busy as well. I have been busy training new people and working on improvements to our training program as well. I'm going to a conference next week on training as well. We have all been working a lot of overtime with the holidays, being short dispatchers, and last month my good friend who is also a dispatcher had a stroke and is facing a long recovery. We are hopeful as are the doctors that she will recover hopefully to the point of being able to come back to work and if not hopefully to the point she can drive again and get another job and be independant. Therefore I have been busy checking on her and helping her with many things as well as working and taking care of the girls. I'm back on day shift which is working much better for me. The girls are so happy to have me home in the evening again. We got new consoles at work which hold all of our equipment and are hydrolic. They raise up or go down with the push of a button so that we can have the monitor at eye level and the keyboard at just the right height as well as being able to raise them up and stand to dispatch. I love being able to stand instead of sitting all day. We also are waiting to hear if we will all get raises. They did a city wide pay study and we are waiting for the City Commision to sign off on it. We have been told that over 95% of both the Police and Fire Departments are underpaid by a lot so we are hoping for nice raises but I won't hold my breath until I see it on my pay check.
Hopefully everyone has been doing great and I will try to post more then every 6 months from now on.
10月8日 Sad NewsLast week we put to sleep our beloved family dog, Brutus. He was a 9 year old white boxer. He had been acting just fine other then the normal problems with old age he was starting to get. One evening last week my mom came home and found him on the floor unable to get up. She took him to the animal ER as it was after hours for our vet and the next morning he was able to see our family vet where they said he was bleeding internally. We could either put him down or take him to Manhattan to the University to have tests done too see where the bleeding was coming from. We chose to take him to the university. There is no way we would chose to put him to sleep if there was a possibility of saving him. There we found out that he had cancerous tumors all over his spleen. We spoke with our vet and she said she could do a surgery to try to stop the bleeding and remove the spleen but that would only give him about 3 more months to live at best. The other draw backs were that she would be unable to give him a transfusion during the surgery if he needed one and if we chose surgery he would likely die painfully of cancer. If we chose to let him die on his own his spleen would likely rupture and he would bleed out in about 30 minutes or so which she said would also be very painful for him. So we made a very difficult decision to let him go while he was still feeling halfway decent after the iv's and meds they had given him instead of watching him suffer. It was a very tough decision but the only one we felt we could make. I felt like that's what I would want have happen if I were in his situation instead. It has been very hard on my mom as he was a family pet but mostly hers and they were extremely attached. It was also difficult for Tori and some for Catie. Brutus was older then both of them so they have never known him not to be around and Tori and Brutus somewhat grew up together. We let Tori say goodby to him before we had the procedure done and my brother and I sat with him while the Vet administered the medication. I know we did the right thing but it is always hard because they look you in the eye and trust you to fix everything.
The other news is that my grandmother has been in the hospital. She had one of her toes amputated and some bone taken out of her other foot. She has diabetes and also a resistant strain of staph infection that she is having trouble getting over that is really taking a toll on her feet. That surgery went as well as could be expected but now they say that she has so little circulation left in her legs that there is no way for her feet to heal. Early this week they will do another surgery and try to find veins good enough to do a bypass to help the circulation. If that is not possible one or both of her legs will have to be amputated probably below the knee. The last surgery she had where they put her totally under she almost did not recover from so this has us all very worried but hoping for the best.
On other news I have went to both the highland games and the Ren Fest in Kansas City since I have last posted and will add some pictures and talk about what a great time we had at both of these events later. My mom also got a new puppy a Rhodesion Ridgeback. He is a cute little guy who is already quite large at 8 weeks old and will get to be much bigger. He is red with the standard ridge of hair going the wrong direction on his back. I think he might end up to have a somewhat calm personality but it's too early to tell. He is very intelligent as you can see that and the love in his eyes everytime you look at him. I will post pictures of him soon as well.
Hope everyone has been doing well and I will try to update later this week.
Our beloved Brutus
 THE GATE OF HEAVEN
I got to the gate of Heaven yesterday, 9月24日 911 Centers and Cell Phone GPSThere is a good article in todays paper titled "A Call For Help" It talks about some couties in kansas and the fact that they are unable to pin point where you are at when you call from a cell phone. In Kansas 911 centers are not required to be Phase II compliant until 2010 which means they will not be able to locate where you are calling from if you do not know or can not tell them. They may or may not be able to see the cell phone number you are calling from. Our dispatch center is Phase II compliant and can locate where you are calling from normally with in about 100 feet. However to do this your call has to register long enough for us to get the locate (this can from just a few seconds to 30 seconds or so) and also be a GPS cell phone. All new phones they are selling should be GPS phones and if you have an old phone you should seriously consider upgrading it or exchanging it. It could save your life someday. The other thing to remember is to pay attention to where you are don't assume when you call 911 especially when traveling that they will know where you are.
If you have a chance read the article it talks about a couple of calls where we have located cell phone callers using phase II or GPS and also has a picture of my boss with our cad map in the back ground. |
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