It’s been 36 hours since I sat in silence at my console taking in what had happened.  We knew slightly more than the media did, but no much.  What we knew at 10:00pm on Saturday night was that 23 year old Brad Harper was fighting for his life in surgery after being pinned between two fire apparatuses.  The call you never want to hear as a dispatcher “Mayday Mayday Mayday” had come through earlier that evening.  A tragic...

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What am I proud of?  I’ve stared at a blank post for almost two hours trying to figure out what the hell I’m proud of.  And then I heard a little snort next to me.  Hot damn my kid is still alive.  I’ve kept him alive for 14 weeks now and I couldn’t be more proud of myself. But Alicia, keeping a human alive isn’t really that hard.  They say the same thing about cactus.  I’ve killed plenty of cactus in my...

  Not the highest quality picture but every once in a while I get to see some pretty amazing sunsets from my...

As a dispatcher I hear a lot of terrifying calls. Things I can’t even begin to describe to you. As a new mom, I fear the day when I’m the one making the call for my kiddo and I hope that never happens. When something is wrong with your kiddo the world stops and all hell breaks loose. Your common sense may even fly out the window. I started dispatch corner in order to provide you with some helpful information in regards to emergency...

Time for another Monday Mingle with Funny Postpartum Lady and Story of a Girl.  In honor of Mother’s Day yesterday, this week’s theme is Motherhood in...

It’s Sunday and that means it’s time for another Sunday Social. Sunday Social is a blog hop hosted by Ashley over at Ashley Lately Head over there and link up or get started on next week’s questions. It’s a great way to learn about and get to know other bloggers out there. 1. 1 year ago I was doing… Funny you should ask.  Very long story short, I was icing my face from a broken nose and eating Pei Wei.  It’s...

This will be a short and sweet post.  Mostly because all hell may break loose at my house any minute when The Rhino awakes.  But secondly  I also touch on this subject in another, longer, post about not pissing off your 911 dispatcher. For the love of all that is holy please stop being a good Samaritan.  I know I bitch about the lack of compassion of people in the world and how we need to help others.  But when it comes to homeless people...

(Not so) Wordless Wednesday post.  This is my friend Chris and Cass’s son Kyle.  On April 28th, 2013 he was announced as the newest member of the Arizona Diamondbacks as part of his Make A Wish.  He had a weekend full of nothing but baseball.  He even had his own locker in the locker room and got a behind the scenes tour of Chase Field.  He was announced in front of the crowd and threw out the first pitch.  The cheers were thunderous.  I...