Only Criminals Have to Call Me Officer II---A new life is born (long) (585 hits)
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Submitted by Big Willie Style (View user info) at 2005-01-10 03:37:42 EST
For those of you who read my first post and thought that I sounded a bit arrogant and hypocritical, you're right. In fact, it was all bullshit. In the five years that I've mulled through the position of private security officer, I've only made one arrest, and it was bullshit so I didn't even show up for court. But I do feel like I'm good at my job, and there are a few things that annoy me, but its just a job. If someone has nothing better to do than to give me a hard time, hey, whatever makes you happy. The job is rewarding to a certain extent, but as anyone who wears a badge in any capacity will tell you...you never know what to expect when you go to work.
Since my current company specializes in high risk communities, most of our contracts are with apartment complexes. I more commonly refer to them as shitholes. These communities have more of a high concentration of low lifes, drunks, foreigners, welfare mamas, crack whores, and ex-cons than any where else....which is why they call us in.
One other thing that I do in these communities is go in the apartments with fire and emergency services whenever they arrive on the place, and/or provide first aid in emergencies. Plus, having been an EMT for about two years, and not being able to do after I moved, it takes me back to those days on the bus.
One evening, EMS was called for a baby being born. Unfortunatley, this was not an uncommon thing, considering the neighborhood. Most of the people that lived there couldn't even pronounce the word hospital, much less know where one was.
We walk into the apartment, and I see approximatley 10 children in this small two bedroom apartment with no furnature. There was one twin size mattress in the living room, a small table in the corner, and that was about it. These particular international refugees were Somolians. Somolia is a country that I really don't know much about. I also have no idea how Somolians ended up in the United States, muchless such an obscure city in Georgia
I moved on to the back bedroom where the action was. In this tiny room, there are more children, one of which is about 14 years old, holding her own baby, and had the distinct honor of being the only one who spoke english. On the floor, beside the "bed" (two matteresses stacked on top of each other), is a woman of about 30 with a baby half hanging out of her. A man was kneeling on the floor in front of her acting as catcher, whom I later learned was her brother. So to review, we have in this small room, five children, one english speaker with her own child, a mother giving birth, her brother, three firefighters, two EMTs, and me. It was a bit cramped, so I did my best to get everyone out that didn't need to be there.
But this was no happy moment for this large extended family. In my two years as an EMT, I've run a lot of calls, but I've never run a childbirth. In fact, I've tried to avoid it. I have a problem with anything coming out of that region of the female body...its just nasty to me. Nevertheless, I was hoping my first childbirth would be a happier affair, but it wasn't. The child was born with the cord wrapped around its neck. The catcher, in trying to assist with getting the baby out (it didn't want to come out), and trying to get the cord from around the baby's neck, tramuatized the skull and the arm of the infant. The baby was born, took two breaths, then expired right in front of my eyes.
I've learned not to express emotion in such situations, not that it shows weakness or anything, its just unprofessional. But I do remember saying a prayer, which is unusual for me considering I'm not a big religious person. I also called a female friend of mine who recently had a child; for some reason I wanted to hear a female perspective.
Most of all, I felt a bit guilty. I know that dead is dead, and nothing can change that. But it isn't like the residents of that community are totally oblivious to my presence there (big white man in a mostly black neighborhood, wearing a blue uniform). I may have been able to save that child.
I'll never know.
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Submitted by Feijuada (user info) at 2005-01-30 11:55:14 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Now that you have killed a baby, you may join the Sith...
Submitted by BongZilla (user info) at 2005-01-30 11:33:11 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
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Submitted by Totally_useless (user info) at 2005-01-10 21:32:21 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
I can't believe you killed a little newborn baby!
Baby killer!
Submitted by munkeypants (user info) at 2005-01-10 16:50:57 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
oooh that's so sad!
didn't anyone call 911? or was it too late by then?
Submitted by BLITZKREIG_BOB (user info) at 2005-01-10 11:49:16 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
The world is full of messed up people doing messed up things.
Submitted by MaximusPadus (user info) at 2005-01-10 09:35:13 EST (#)
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Yeah you fucked it up.
Submitted by WhatTheHell (user info) at 2005-01-10 08:53:42 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Uhm... it was a better read, that's for sure.
but only a "0" for depressing the fuck out of me,first thing Monday morning...ya rent-a-pig !
** oink-oink **
Submitted by thecaes (user info) at 2005-01-10 08:45:48 EST (#)
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Submitted by rad1101 (user info) at 2005-01-10 06:02:25 EST (#)
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Submitted by Joemama (user info) at 2005-01-10 05:51:51 EST (#)
Ranking: -1
I don't believe you for some reason.
Submitted by Chinaski (user info) at 2005-01-10 04:22:12 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
I'd rather contract pnuemonia than read this again.
Submitted by Shagabah_Jones (user info) at 2005-01-10 03:43:06 EST (#)
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