I am Just an ambulance driver, you say as I am on the scene of a vehicle
accident that has a popular high school student that is trapped in the
submedged S.U.V. in the creek as I'm standing in chest deep water,freezing
rain falling and stinging as it hits the exposed parts of my body. Holding
her head above water to keep her from drowning until rescue could get there
to cut her free---
BUT I'M JUST AN AMBULANCE DRIVER

I comfort a 89 year old woman who just watch me and my partner cover the
face of her husband of 64 years as he lay dead in their bathroom floor---
BUT I'M JUST AN AMBULANCE DRIVER

I am on scene at another mva with mom trapped upside down in her car and her
dead sons body laying on top of her without a second thought for my own
safety i crawl into the wreckage to take C-spine control and calm the
frantic lady---
BUT I'M JUST AN AMBULANCE DRIVER

I get called away from my just prepared meal to respond to the middle of
B.F.E to a house with no numbers,no porch light on,nobody waiting to signal
us in and they bitch because we took too long only to find out the patient
left in there own vehicle ten minutes ago...so we smile and walk away from
the verbal lashing only because we are
JUST AMBULANCE DRIVERS

I stand in the middle of the street at midnight on the wrong side of town
trying to patch the holes and stop the bleeding of a 19 year old shooting
victim with the occasional bullet wizzing past our heads we never break
stride because this kids life is in our hands---
BUT I'M JUST AN AMBULNCE DRIVER

Or how bout doing chest compressions on a 16 year old girl who decided this
life was more than she could take.Her family screaming at us to help as
though we are the ones who did this to her.Her lifeless body flailing about
as the tube goes in and IV's being started, my arms and back burning from
the pain of 30 minutes of CPR never once giving up, hoping she would make it
through and over come whatever lead her to this bad decision----
BUT I'M JUST AN AMBULANCE DRIVER

Death is all around me and still i go home to live my life
i get kicked,hit,spit on, bled on, puked on,cussed at and disrespected...
i look into the eyes of a lifeless child at 7am and by 8 am i'm holding my
child a little tighter and they know nothing about what happened. i have
hundreds of hours of classroom time
years of in the field experience i have challenged death and won.

i've helped the helpless
i've neglected my family for yours
i find comfort in complete chaos
i eat cold meals if i eat at all
i work with no sleep for days at a time
i miss birthdays,holidays and school functions
i put myself in harms way for a total stranger on a daily basis

ALL BECAUSE I AM JUST AN AMBULANCE DRIVER

I AM AN AMBULANCE DRIVER!!! I DRIVE 90 MPH THROUGH CONJESTED TRAFFIC FULL OF
PEOPLE WHO REFUSE TO YEILD RIGHT OF WAY WHILE MY PARTNER STANDS UNRESTRAINED
IN THE BACK OF THIS SCREAMING LAND MISSLE SAVING YOUR LOVED ONES LIFE!!
NEVER ONCE DOES HE QUESTION MY DRIVING HE KNOWS THAT AT THE END OF THIS
SHIFT HE WILL GO HOME TO HIS FAMILY SAFELY BECAUSE I AM AN AMBULANCE
DRIVER....