Greetings everyone,
How well do you know the job of paramedic? Are you aware of their daily struggles, or what their patients have lived through? We'll be exploring these with this series of (fictional) testimonies!
Story #1: Chef who suffered an angio-oedema
The unexpected is a big part of my job. That sometimes means a last-minute replacement, or a visit by an inspector. There can also be hella problems with deliveries, or even the products themselves. To deal with the unknown, we come up with a whole buncha of more or less effective procedures. On paper it looks all very mathematically set out, but in the end, we help each other out, yell at each other and things move in the right direction.
Considering how long I’ve been in the job, I thought I knew all the solutions to the equation! But when your own body becomes the unknown, and it’s up to others to solve the problem, it’s a completely different story. When it happened, I didn’t notice right away. At first I got angry with my team, who just stared at me instead of working. I was telling myself, “We’re in the middle of a rush, and they’re letting themselves get distracted by my apron not being straight. !” When I saw the commis chef pick up the phone on the job, I was about to let rip at him, and it was then that I realised I was the reason for the concern.
There was practically no sound coming out of my mouth, and I started struggling to breathe. When I saw my disfigured reflection in the stainless-steel door of one of our refrigerators, I thought I was going to faint. And that was almost certainly what happened, because a moment later, my saviour was there. An angio-oedema, they told me at the hospital. It was my very first allergic episode, and it could have been the last if the paramedic hadn’t intervened in time and responded correctly. Since then, I see him from time to time at one of my tables. We never talk about what happened, but I’ll always be grateful to him.
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