Red Light by JD Glass

Author:JD Glass
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: ! Yes
ISBN: 9781933110813
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Published: 2007-06-15T05:00:00+00:00

Focused A ssessment

After all life threats have been treated and stabilized, a full head-to-toe examination of the patient should be performed, either on scene or en route, with specific focus on each area. . .

When the twins finally came home, we had a party at Nina and Samantha's house, Del Castillo style, impromptu, joyous, and overfull __which meant the whole family, including Sam's uncle, my cousin's friend Fran, Nina's parents and siblings, and Jean's brother and parents.

I was gladder than glad for the joy of the day; my shift supervisor had given me a comp day because I'd had the unfortunate good luck to be on a call where my partner Izzy and I had felt the need to slam our helmets on our heads, slide on our turnout coats, and run into a fire right behind the responding firemen to pull out a homeless vet who'd been so far gone on "'die land tin' for my epilepsy," that he hadn't known he was moments shy of becoming barbecue. And that? Smells a lot like cooked chicken.

Calls like that always made me and Jean seek out each other and our family; this was the perfect way to forget the things that upset us and to remember why we did it.

"Family puts the 'fun' in dysfunction," as Jean said. I agreed.

"Hey, you know, you never told me how you figured out the twins thing," Nina said as she handed me my niece.

"It was the rhythm, you know, when I listened for tones? Just something about the sound," I explained as I carefully shifted the baby in my arms.

"Good ear, good hands. You would have made a great musician, Tori," she said with a smile.

I laughed. "Thanks, Nina. You would have made a great EMT. But," I said, still smiling, "ya never know what the future holds. Maybe I'll play the drums or something when I get tired of playing knight in a tin can. I'll probably learn to play a bagpipe."

She chuckled. "Ethnic color, not a bad thing."

"Actually, Jean's got a nice voice."

"Yeah?" she raised an interested brow. "I've never heard her sing, though she's got a great speaking voice. Maybe you guys should drop by the studio sometime."

I tried hard not to blush. "Well, she does kinda only sing for me."

"You might want to keep it that way. Ask me or Sam about that sometime."

We both glanced over to where Sam stood, trying not to look too anxious as Nina's father held her son.

"I've got to go give her a hand," Nina said. "My dad always makes her tense."

"You okay with my holding her?"

Nina put a hand on my shoulder. "You held my life in your hands, Tori." She kissed the baby that slept in the crook of my arm, then kissed my cheek. "I'll always be okay with you doing it again."

I stared at her, stunned at the magnitude of what she trusted me with, as she walked away, and I watched as she kissed her father and her

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