OK, here are some random shots from the last couple of years...
First, I had a helicopter ridealong on Monday. We produce 2 documentaries each year for our medical school, typically highlighting the importance of our Level 1 Trauma Center. We film a reenactment of a medical transport from last year with this crew. An 18 year old soccer player had a cardiac arrest during practice, was down for anywhere from 5-15 minutes, and had to be transported to our facility here in town due to anoxic brain injury. A year later, she's fine and back on the soccer team. Unreal.
Next, there's a photo of me and a previous patient from one of these stories. Juan and his mother own a restaurant and were leaving work one night. She was mugged, and he stepped in to help her. He was shot twice in the chest. The police officer responding on scene had a combat trauma kit, packed his wounds, and got him to the trauma center. While there, he was placed on an ECMO machine (which removes the blood to reoxygenate it). Well, after Juan survived the community held a fundraiser for him. He gave the $25,000 that was raised back to the medical school, and they then used that money to purchase a mobile ECMO machine. A couple of years ago, one of those machines saved the life of a woman dying from COVID. Juan's one of my heroes.
And a couple of miscellaneous pics... First, my edit suite. It's in a former music recording studio. So it's dead quiet in here.
Next, BTS from a commercial campaign from last year. We filmed it on the Sony VENICE. I didn't get to put my hands on the camera. I was guarding the lens package with my life.
And finally... Sharing this not so much for the camera (It's an old Panasonic HPX500), but the Portabrace strap. My wife got that for me one year when I was working in news. It went with me everywhere for years. I kept it after I left news, and when I started working here I put it on this Panasonic. We don't use it much anymore, but when we do I think about my news days. The good times. And the horrible times.
