Wednesday morning around 0900 I went to grocery store where about 75% of shoppers were wearing masks. One clown, not wearing a mask, started giving me a ration of shit about my mask. I explained to him that, as a medic, I have contact with sick people, I don’t know what I may be spreading, so, I wear a mask to protect people from me. He went on a rant that Trump would have been proud of.

Shortly after 2300 hours Wednesday night, we were dispatched for 72 year old male difficulty breathing, chest pains. Got on the scene — BP was 200/105; pulse was 80-90; respirations 20-22, rapid and shallow, O2 sats 88%; severe wheezing on exhale and inhale. ECG showed normal sinus rhythm — this guy was in serious respiratory distress. Low O2 would soon lead to cardiac difficulty, so, I had to get his breathing to normal and get some oxygen in him.

Loaded him in the ambulance and hauled ass for the hospital 35 miles away. Meanwhile, I put him on albuterol-Atrovent nebulizer, CPAP and high-flow O2, got his respiration almost to normal, got his BP down a bit; O2 sats came up to low 90%; lung sounds still wheezing; basically saved his life.

By now you have probably guessed he was the same guy who accosted me at the grocery store. And, yes, he recognized me enroute to the ER.

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