Holy @#$%^&*( it's a war zone!!

Just when I thought everything settled to a dull routine, there was a nice shakeup. First off my routine of emergency medical taxi on the לבן (BLS bus) was broken by being allowed to ride the נטן (ALS bus). That unit is never called unless there is something seriously wrong. I had one run where we picked up someone who had a hematoma on his head the size of my fist. The run right after was most memorable. We were called to do an ALS intercept for a patient who had gone into convulsions and lost consciousness. They transferred the patient to our ambulance and we got to work. Of course since I am not a paramedic I assisted and took vitals. He responded to painfull stimuli only by the time we got ahold of him, but apparently he walked on his own into the original ambulance. I saw he had one blown pupil: not good. He was also rapidly losing consciousness. The paramedics decided they did not the way his airway was and decided to intubate him. They tried 3 times with one size of tube but he would not tolerate it. He became a vomit fountain and my EMS pants needed cleaning. Finally after trying a different tube, it was tolerated and we took him to the trauma center. Our patient was also nice enough to bleed all over our ambulance so we had to decon it for almost 2 hours.

As for the title of the post: I am witnessing soldiers moving up the highway to the north of me. APC's everywhere. The Hezbola shot missiles into Tzfat and Kiryat Shmonah today and many were wounded. There were also 2 soldiers kidnapped. Israel is now shelling Lebanon into the stone age. There were reserves called up as well. It appears to be a large operation in the works. We have had travel restrictions placed on us. We cannot go any farther north than Haifa untill otherwize notified. It really brings the news much closer when I know I am maybe 2 or 3 hours away from it.