and also to hunting girl, no offense or anything, but you gotta grab hold of your emotions. especially if thats not blowing up.

and please stop trying to make us think you have a hard life, because we all do. you choose to be a firefighter and a parametic, and im sure everyone is thankful that you are. but it really ruins the image when you sit there almost complaining about it and telling us we could not do what you do. its actually insulting. you don't know what we have seen either, and what one of us has seen may be worse than anything you have ever seen. my neighbor for example is a heart doctor. (i think i told you this story already). he sees people die every day of his life. he was at his son's basketball game up in lacrosse WI, and a wedding was goign on at the hotel he was staying at. they were walking down the halls, when all of a sudden the dad hears someone yelling about a heart attack. he gets to the scene, and there is a guy on the floor not breathing, so he starts doing cpr and the guy is puking in his mouth while hes doing it. the ambulence gets there and the parametics weren't using those shocking things correctly or something to that sort. maybe it was they weren't doing it quick enough. anyway, so my neighbor had to do it all (unpaid) and even helped him into the ambulence and took charge of everything up untill the ambulence launched off again. when it was all done, not one thank you was said. but do you know what he did? he just walked out, took a shower, and went to bed, and he never talked about it again. his son told me the whole story, and i was appauled. But that is something that i admire, and i have the utmost respect for him. but if he were to come from that complaining and saying, you could never do that in a million years!! you walk in my shoes and see how it is, you wouldn't beable to handle it. i would think he was a total butt. but no, he is a hero, as i'm sure you are too. you chose to be what you are. so don't make us feel bad for not picking the same thing.