Rosie Nucifora

I Am now a second year paramedic working in Cairns station getting flogged with study, work, overtime and then more study.  Every day holds more exciting adventures than the previous, and I'm learning heaps, how to be a physcologist, mother, doctor, nazi, cop and very patient.  Should have gotten into this career years and years ago, for once I love going to work every day.  The people I work with are some of the most awesome people I've ever met, and not just workmates, but family.  I worked for the last 9 months out at Smithfield station, but got sick of all the roadies on the ranges and transfered back into Cairns station, where the workload triples but so does your experience.  Christmas day was a pearler! I rescuscitated a 18 month old girl in front of her mother and 20 family members out at the northern beaches just before the family christmas lunch that day.  Unfortunately we still had to transport the little baby to hospital for observation, but to hear her giggling as we arrived at the hospital, made her mother's 2004 Christmas unforgetable.  And for me too, probably one of the most happiest jobs I've ever done.  It only takes one good job to make up for the 12 others that don't end so good.

Terry and I are still renting a house in bayview heights, with the intention to buy it half way through the year.  The owner knows we want to buy and is giving us first option when he decides to sell in July.  With all the stuff we've accumulated over the last 2 years, we have to stay in a place as large as this to store it all.  I have a motorbike too, which, surprise surprise, causes much contraversy within the family.  I just lie and say it's Terry's bike.  Oh, and the two dogs really love the backyard, it's like a park it's that big.