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Sto caricando le informazioni... Ambulance Girl: How I Saved Myself By Becoming an EMT (originale 2003; edizione 2003)di Jane Stern
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I have read this book at least 4 times in the last few years. I completely related to the author and loved that she took her life in her own hands. This book is about a woman who has a ton of anxieties and phobias that basically make it impossible for her to live her life, but while flying she actually saves a life of a fellow passenger and that inspires her to become an EMT and how that gives her purpose. And that isn't to say that even once she becomes an EMT that everything is smooth sailing, she absolutely has set backs and regressions, but she pulls herself together in the end. Also she isn't a young woman, she's at best middle aged. Exceptional read. ( ) From a bookbox, A gourmet magazine writer, who goes into panic attacks on planes decides in her 50s to become an EMT. Quite funny, I suppose because I too trained as an EMT and worked as a nurse. I totally get the macabre humor, as she describes her training and her "firsts" on the runs. Now off to another reader as a wishlist tag. between 2.5 and 3. i might like this book more than the average reader, as i spent over 10 years as an emt, part of that at a fire department, so might have found her stories more fun and relatable than most. she writes decently, and honestly about her anxiety and depression. (although the first chapter, which should have been a preface, was very poorly written and probably would have caused me to put the book down right there if i did that sort of thing.) it's not a completely cohesive story, but that's ok. it certainly brought me back to my time in emt class, the feeling of being one of the only women in the firehouse, and to the hours i spent in the back of that rig or driving it. At 52 years old, Jane Stern had hit a rough patch in her life, suffering from too many phobias to name. One day she sees a sign for volunteer EMT's wanted at her local firehouse. On a whim, she signs up for the class. Despite all of her phobias, she passes all of the tests with flying colors and becomes a Volunteer EMT for the Georgetown CT Fire Department. Her stories are funny and heart-breaking. From hanging out in the firehouse with "the guys" to going on a call to the AIDS Hospice facility and meeting a patient who touches her life for a very short amount of time. I found myself laughing out loud many times, as Jane has a dry sense of humor, very similar to mine. We also share the same phobias....I didn't think anyone could be as phobic as I am of vomiting, but she proved me wrong! I loved her story....and admire her greatly for pursuing her career as an EMT, despite her being afraid. She found out that she gained so much in her life by helping others. It helped her find her niche...helping others helped her find herself. Highly Recommended! nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
The basis for the movie starring Kathy Bates, Ambulance Girl is an inspiring story by a woman who found, somewhat late in life, that "in helping others I learned to help myself." Jane Stern was a walking encyclopedia of panic attacks, depression, and hypochondria. Her marriage of more than thirty years was suffering, and she was virtually immobilized by fear and anxiety. As the daughter of parents who both died before she was thirty, Stern was terrified of illness and death, and despite the fact that her acclaimed career as a food and travel writer required her to spend a great deal of time on airplanes, she suffered from a persistent fear of flying and severe claustrophobia. Yet, this fifty-two-year-old writer decided to become an emergency medical technician. Stern tells her story with great humor and poignancy, creating a wonderful portrait of a middle-aged, Woody Allen-ish woman who was "deeply and neurotically terrified of sick and dead people," but who went out into the world to save other people's lives as a way of saving her own. Her story begins with the boot camp of EMT training: 140 hours at the hands of a dour ex-marine who took delight in presenting a veritable parade of amputations, hideous deformities, and gross disasters. Jane--overweight and badly out of shape--had to surmount physical challenges like carrying a 250-pound man seated in a chair down a dark flight of stairs. After class she did rounds in the emergency room of a local hospital. Each call Stern describes is a vignette of human nature, often with a life in the balance. From an AIDS hospice to town drunks, yuppie wife beaters to psychopaths, Jane comes to see the true nature and underlying mysteries of a town she had called home for twenty years. Throughout the book we follow her as she gets her sea legs, bonds with the firefighters who become her colleagues, and eventually, comes to be known as Ambulance Girl. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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