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A Medical Experience     It was the end of a normal day at the station. The medics are just getting to live after running a half a dozen shoot the breezes for an affiliate minor medicaland trauma problems. The paperwork was finished. The reports were entered intothe computer. The truck was dismantle restocked. They were just slightly intodreamland entirely, as with most nights at this particular station, sleep was not tobe.     Several miles away, in a small, well kept apartment, Angie Briggs, aeighty-year-old adult female awoke to the feeling that the life-giving air was beingdenied to her. She assay to sit up, but the feeling would not subside. Walkingmade it worse. She also noticed that, regular though the temperature in her roomwas comfortable, she was dripping with sweat. The longer that she waited, theharder it became to breath. So, realizing the fact that her reanimate was probablyasleep, she did the next logical step, she cal led her daughter, who lives inanother state. The daughter accomplished that her mother needed more help than shecould give everywhere the phone, tried to persuade the mother to call an ambulance,which, of course, the mother refused to do, stating that it wasnt necessary.The daughter then took it upon herself to call EMS from her own house.     The medics were notified of the problem through the usual method, aseries of tones over a radio that cause a loud horn to blast and all the stationlights to come on, much to the annoyance of the fire lieutenant. This alarm wasimmediately followed by the dispatchers voice giving all the applicable nurture on this call.     "Med unit 2, respiratory call, 103 Royal Terrace Boulevard, apartment 7,in university extension to a 80 year old woman with precipitancy of breath."     Not that the EMS crew were listening at this point. They are busygetting into their jumpsuits and pu tting their boots on. It does not matter ifthey are eating, sleeping, watching TV, or even taking a shower, they arerequired to be in the ambulance and en track to the scene within two minutes.     "Med Twos en route." Stated EMT Jennifer Meyers in a sleepy voice     " write med 2 is en route to 103 Royal Terrace Blvd., apartment 7." Nowthey are listening. "This is in reference to a 80 year-old female who is insevere respiratory distress. reliable the call from her daughter that is out ofstate. Patient sounds very short of breath."     "Copy"     "Im pretty sure that it is in the first entrance into the apartment