911-What's the location of your emergency?

So I will be posting several blogs at one time until I can hook the laptop up to internet somewhere, somehow. I wrote a blog last night and saved it to my junk drive and tried to download it onto another computer but because the computer operating systems are different, it wouldn’t let me do it. I really like this laptop so I will continue to use it and download the blogs when I get the chance.

    So I forget sometimes what my husband’s job is, other than being my husband. ;-) For you that don’t know, he is a 911 dispatcher. To some people, that may sound like nothing and to others it may sound like something exciting! I think a lot of people think about the police officers, the paramedic and EMT’s and the firefighters and sometimes forget about the 911 dispatchers. Everybody in the quote unquote emergency field have highly important jobs so I am not trying to do this to say that the others aren’t important. I am just extremely proud of my husband for the job that he does. You call 911 when you have a wreck or when you think you see a drunk driver on the road and some people honestly probably call for things quite silly. But people forget that when their house is on fire, or they are getting beat by somebody, or they are about to commit suicide-they call 911 first. That’s who gets the call and it’s the dispatcher’s job to stay calm and to keep these people as calm as possible. They are the ones that have to listen to the horrible things going on in the background and to listen to the person on the other end of the phone crying in terror. It’s not always something dramatic. But for the times that it is something critical, their job is important.  It’s also something that they take to the heart sometimes. How could it not be? A few months or so after Jeremy got this job, he had to take some classes. In one of those classes, they talked about how 911 dispatchers have a shorter life span than a lot of people.  Sounds crazy, huh? But it’s because they spend their time getting their adrenaline pumped up during a critical call and the majority of the time, they never find out the outcome. It’s also an important job because they are the ones that are in charge of finding out where the police officers, medics and firefighters are suppose to go. All these people can’t do their job without knowing where to go. I know some of the other people that work with him but I don’t them like I know him. He has a huge, gentle and caring heart. And I know that he doesn’t take those calls with a grain of salt and he doesn’t just forget about those critical calls. So this is a shout out to the 911 dispatchers and to say thanks for the job that y’all do. I also give thanks to all the police officers, medics and firefighters that work towards doing the best job that they can do. I know those jobs aren’t easy and I commend them all. So next time you see one, say thank you!! God Bless!