{"id":80,"date":"2006-08-28T13:53:15","date_gmt":"2006-08-28T17:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bluezulu.net\/?p=80"},"modified":"2007-05-15T00:20:45","modified_gmt":"2007-05-15T04:20:45","slug":"things-that-you-cant-forget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.bluezulu.net\/?p=80","title":{"rendered":"Things that you can&#8217;t forget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the beginning of the ski patrol cycle again. Last Saturday was the pre-season refresher training for returning ski patrol instructors. The makeup for ski patrol training is that we cover the whole corpus of patrol training on a three year cycle. The focus this year was environmental and neurological emergencies.<\/p>\n<p>Trauma being ski patrol&#8217;s bread and butter, neurologic topics always includes a healthy does of spinal column and spinal cord compromise. Everytime we cover spinal injuries, I always get drawn back to when I was training to be a paramedic, and we were required to do hospital rotations. One particular rotation was to the ICU, where a nurse recounted to me a recent patient who was a below waist paraplegic resulting from diving into a pool and hitting her head on the bottom of the pool, and suffered a complete spinal cord transection. One day, while still in the ICU, she asked, &#8220;I&#8217;m only fourteen; I haven&#8217;t even had sex yet. I guess I&#8217;ll never know what that feels like, will I?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the beginning of the ski patrol cycle again. Last Saturday was the pre-season refresher training for returning ski patrol instructors. The makeup for ski patrol training is that we cover the whole corpus of patrol training on a three year cycle. The focus this year was environmental and neurological emergencies. Trauma being ski patrol&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.bluezulu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.bluezulu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.bluezulu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.bluezulu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.bluezulu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.bluezulu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.bluezulu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.bluezulu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.bluezulu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}