Kay Phillips:  

Medical Technician certification course and the necessary recertifications every few years. That was required to maintain my job with EMS. Once I started working there, I loved my job and never thought about moving on to anything else. Workplace Before going to work for Charleston County EMS I only had a couple of short term fill in jobs early in marriage. When I went to work for EMS in 1978 as an Emergency Services Dispatcher I knew that I had found the job of a lifetime. It was challenging, exciting, helped others, and was never dull. I can honestly say there was never a day that I ever got up dreading to go to work. If it had not been for the on the job injury and resulting complications that made it impossible to continue working, I would still be there now and I would stay as long as they would let me. I loved every minute of the time I was there and hated to have to leave. That was one of the worst days of my life when I realized that I could no longer "do the job". I think if I had finished enough time to retire and had made the decission to do that and get prepared for that things would have felt different. Instead, it feels like it was just taken right out of my hands, with no warning, like losing a cherished family member suddenly. It left a big empty spot in my life. Something I just was not prepared for. It's getting easier with each day that goes by. I fill up my life with family things and church things to keep me busy and with God providing me with things to do I will always stay busy.