19 October 2011

Not A Good Day

Today was... not fantastic.

Got assaulted and battered by a 6'3" 230 lb Armenian psych patient made of sheer muscle, who in the process managed to escape from my ambulance. And then I chased him for a mile and a half through the bad part of Los Angeles while waiting for police to finally arrive and take him down, guns drawn.

Police told me I had a great case if I wanted to prosecute, but I said no. The patient needs help, not confinement right now -- help he will get now that he is safely locked in a psych ward.

And I got to live in fear of being fired for several hours.

Oh, and I declined medical treatment... still have a little while to change my mind, according to workers comp.

But honestly, it's not the physical hurt that bothers me. It's the emotional.

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