Helping those in need.

I got to work. It was another lay low day. I decided to get my ticket from KROCK in Seattle.

I got to the station and they wanted ID etc for tax forms. Well lets just say I did not get the tickets.

I was going to take Five-Twenty back home. Five-Twenty is a state route that is two lanes in each direction and it is a floating bridge across lake Washington. It goes right next to where Steve-O live (University of Washington).

On the way back I couldn't get to the correct lane so I ended up going South Bound I-Five until I could get turned around just before the I-Ninety floating bridge. I got back on I-Five going north to the Five-Twenty .

I was cruising across the bridge that gets thick traffic flows during rush hour. Going towards the East high rise the traffic slowed to five miles per hour. Then I saw two cars in front of me in the fast lane. One truck and a car that was in the jersey barrier. I figured that was a rearend accident. I got into the other lane. I saw two people standing by the car and they were knocking on the window. I also saw someone was slumped back in the seat. I knew something was wrong.

I pulled over and backed my truck towards the scene of the accident. I grabbed my trauma kit and walked to the scene. A lady had just slowly driving into the barrier. Her car was still in drive but was stopped by the barrier. Her doors were locked and she was unresponsive to the people knocking on her window.

A cop pulled up and we told him what was going on. We said the doors were all locked. I watched him grab for his baton and say, not for long. He broke the window in the car. I unlocked the back door and got in.

I told her who I was. She was unresponsive, but we still talk because sometimes they can hear. I was thinking a diabetic emergency. I had no equipment to test her however. I took her pulse and blood pressure. I checked her level of consciousness. I used a sternal rub and she made some sounds and sort of moved from the pain. So she was conscious to painful stimuli. I got that data recorded. I checked for medical alert information and she had no bracelets.

The Bellevue EMS got on scene and took over from there. That is one of the first times I have ever been to a scene where I was there before EMS and where someone needed some medical interventions.

Anyway, the traffic was blocked to one lane in each direction and soon the bridge was full of cars. There was a large back up. I am sure it will clear up a little before the rush hour starts in a few hours, but if it was closer to rush hour that would have been really bad.

I took some pills from the last time I hurt my back when I got back to my office. I hung out until around five-forty-five before heading home.

I just hung out here. Watched TV and chatted with a few people online and I talked to Kyle on the phone.