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I don’t preach often, but when I do, it’s about saving your life.

by Elizabeth Quinn

How to CALL hing!

Have you ever called 911?

Chances are you have not...

It’s only on your absolute worst day, or your very last, that you or your loved one will need to dial 911.

HOW you handle that call can mean the difference between life, death, permanent damage or harm to someone.

1) Register your cell phones TODAY with your 911 provider.

Google it or call your LOCAL police department. Registering means that if your cell calls 911, the dispatcher will automatically get your address, vehicle information, medical conditions, etc. Think of all the things that could go wrong, even to the point that you are unable to speak, or speak clearly enough to be understood.

If nothing else, they know where to go and what may be wrong. Registering is FREE.

know what the problem is and where you are. The FIRST thing out of your mouth should be your address or location. Give the subdivision name, the apartment complex name, landmarks and/or cross streets. REPEAT ALL OF THIS TWICE. Without this information, no one is coming to help you.

3) Breathe. Breathe deeply between every sentence.

You are stressed, panicked, hurt, or even possibly dying. This means your ability to communicate is TERRIBLE. Say one thing, then stop and breathe.

2) When you call 911 Example - “I am having you will be asked to state chest pains and can’t feel your emergency. my fingers” *breathe* “I’ve never had this happen Don’t tell me your name. before”.

Don’t tell me your back story. Tell me why you 4) Give your problem are calling. I only need to and location to the

dispatcher (twice!), then STOP TALKING. The dispatcher has VERY specific information they need and they have VERY specific questions they need to ask you. The faster those questions are answered, the faster you get help.

For each problem, specific personnel needs to be dispatched, tailored to the problem you are having.

If what you need is an ambulance with Advanced Life Support, and what you get is an ambulance with Basic Life Support, your life expectancy can hit the skids quick.

Don’t make the dispatcher waste valuable time having to try to interrupt you and break into your conversation to get the NECESSARY information. Give your address (twice!), then Continued on page 8.

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LOVE Trumps Hate “Love always trumps hate, even now. On inauguration morning, I prayed for Donald Trump.�

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to the counsel of my own soul which Every morning at the end of my has brought me to this place and to this prayers, I offer a prayer for "the person response: who needs a prayer most." I never know who that might be, but that day I figured I will not resist. I will not close my heart it must be him. I asked that his heart be on anyone. Not on my family, friends and opened wider and filled with a deeper strangers who voted differently than me. love for all.

Not on those who post unkind comments about the president and first family that I Then I opened my own heart, loved for the past eight years. which is so tempted to close on him. And I made a vow, one that I hope to keep for Not on Donald Trump, who through the the next four years: votes of others, became my country’s next president.

I will not give in to fear.

I will not give in to negativity.

What will I do?

I will not give in to hate.

The greatest act of bravery and I will not criticize Donald Trump love that I am called to do: for his hair style or tan or body shape or clothes. I will not like or share posts that Embrace love and kindness and spread make fun of how he looks. I will not judge them so they go viral to everyone around his wife for how she dresses or share or me, even the people I am tempted to like any posts that make fun of any of her unfriend or avoid or belittle. Especially past choices. them. I am going to be a contagion of hope and love and joy and spread them through There is much talk about close contact with people of all genders, resistance. Many have been called to races, religions, sexual orientation, ages resist, to march, to protest, to take action, and ideologies. to speak out loudly and often to fight for justice and equality. It is a powerful No matter what anyone else calling. Resistance has not been my chooses to do or say or be, I will be the calling. I have listened long and deeply love I want to see in the world. I will be Continued on page 10.

Continued from page 3.

Rambling slows everything down. breathe and TALKING.

STOP When was the last time you got in a shouting match? No one heard anything anyone 5) Know how to answer was saying, right? Because the most common medical screaming, yelling and questions. shouting makes it incredibly difficult for people to A) Are they having understand the words difficulty breathing? This coming out of your mouth. means are they breathing We totally understand that fast, slow, shallow, you are in distress, and gasping, wheezing. Say we genuinely want to help “yes”, then say HOW they you, but we seriously can’t are breathing. “Yes, he is understand you when you gasping”. are screaming.

B) Are they alert? This means are they able to answer questions? Are they able to track you with their eyes? Are they responding sluggishly, or do they seem to be “out of it”?

C) Are they conscious?

Seems like an easy one, right? People get it wrong everyday. Are their eyes open and moving? If it’s an eye injury, look at their hands. If you shake them (do not do this for possible back/neck injuries!), do they respond in any way?

6) Screaming/yelling/ shouting seriously hurts your chances at getting help quickly.

7) If English is not your primary language, you have to understand that it IS the primary language of your dispatcher.

Learn basic emergency sentences, and TEACH THEM TO YOUR KIDS. Learn “I live at *address*.

I need police/fire/ems. I speak *language name*.I do not speak english.”

Repeat these sentences until either a translator comes on the line, or help is dispatched. These four sentences can change your life, possibly forever.

information, then you hang up. Don’t expect any help to come.

Since you are not trained for 911, that information you just blurted out...

That’s not the information we need in order to send you help. This isn’t TV. I don’t have on a CSI shirt.

You hang up on me? You could be looking at over an hour response time, and that is IF anyone gets sent to you at all. If I don’t hear what I need to hear before you hang up, I can’t reach out to your cell provider to track your location, and you are just up a creek.

Even then, some of your cell providers provide coordinates with a range of up to a MILE in all directions. You want to bet your life on that?

DO NOT HANG UP ON 911.

9) If you butt dial 911, DON’T HANG UP.

8) DO NOT EVER HANG UP ON 911.

Stay on the line, and tell them it was a butt dial. It’s FAR more work hunting You call, you blurt out some down 911 hang ups than it

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is to take a call for a butt dial. It’s no big 11) Talk to ME. deal, accidents happen. You won’t get in If you called 911, that means that NO trouble in any way.

ONE with you can fix the problem. Only JUST STAY ON THE LINE. I can. So stop talking to them, and talk to ME. 10) Don’t waste my time.

911 is for life/death emergencies, or serious property loss. Your stolen cell phone is NOT an emergency. How would you feel knowing that I stopped CPR instructions to a teenage girl for her dying father and put her on hold to answer your 911 call about illegal fireworks? You SHOULD feel like a terrible human being.

I cannot stress these points enough. On the worst day of your life, you NEED to know these things. I *want* to help you. I *need* to help you. But you have to give me what I need to do so.

Most agencies do not use one person dedicated to a phone line. It’s an office, with 1 to 12 people responsible for answering dozens of phone lines. A single person could be juggling 3-4 calls at a time. You quite possibly are KILLING someone’s mother, father, or child by misusing 911.

Google the non-emergency number.

DON’T BE A MURDERER.

Editor’s Note: You can learn more about how YOU can help your LOCAL law enforcement agencies protect you by signing up for a Citizen’s Police Academy class. Most contain a whole teaching segment on 911 Operations & Operators.

Signed, Frustrated Dispatcher

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Continued from page 7. the hope I want to see in the world. I will be the joy I want to see in the world.

I will open my heart even wider. To love. To hope. To joy. To peace. To harmony. To us. To ALL of us. We are bigger than any one person. “We” is what our democracy is based on. “We the people.”

That’s us. We are the “we.” My daughter still has the red, white and blue sign in her window that reads: Love trumps hate.

It always has. It always will.

Especially now.

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Every day is different and every day, the right thing is different. Some things in your life never change. You go to work, you sleep, you bathe, and you eat. None of these things ever change, but how and when and to what degree does change constantly.

Some days you’ll get a long hot shower or a warm bath or maybe just a quick dip. There will be days you when you get 4 hours sleep, sometimes 8 and others you’ll get none at all. Some days you work an hour and have to leave, others are 8 or 14 hour days. You’ll have gourmet meals, fast food and nothing to eat for days.

Just because I don’t outline every possibility for you doesn’t

mean I’m leaving you in the dark. I’ve told you what to do no matter what the circumstances are. You do the right thing. That means something different everyday because every day is different.

Some days I need to talk you, some days you need to talk to me and some days we just need to sit together. There are no hard and fast rules to anything, not even for spending time with me. That’s what freedom of choice is all about.

You’re free to do the right thing no matter what’s going on. You do what’s right for today and go to sleep in peace, knowing that you did. You let me worry about tomorrow and the day after, I can Be the light in handle it.

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