by Firefighter Wife | Jun 6, 2023 | Behavioral Health, Difficult Calls, Especially For The Fire Wife, Everyday
ANOTHER. BAD. CALL. Unfortunately, we don’t always know when our firefighters have had a bad call. Sometimes they fly right under the radar, getting hidden in a compartment somewhere they didn’t even know they had. Our husbands are almost constantly exposed to...
by Firefighter Wife | Jun 6, 2023 | Behavioral Health, Difficult Calls, Everyday
You don’t have to hoard the trauma – throw it out. Well, maybe it’s not as easy as throwing it out… but we do have the ability to fight trauma head-on as it happens versus storing it away to grow into a bigger problem over time. Listen to this new way to...
by Firefighter Wife | Aug 23, 2016 | Behavioral Health, Communication, Difficult Calls, Especially For The Fire Wife, Everyday, For the Firefighters, PTSD
You can feel the air turn tense before a word is even said. You know it was a bad shift. Something must have happened to make such a drastic change in your firefighter. Maybe he is angry, or silent, or sad….you just know something isn’t right. Do you ask...
by Firefighter Wife | Jun 27, 2016 | Behavioral Health, Best of Fire Family Life, Communication, Difficult Calls, Everyday, From the Firefighter Perspective, Wife Advice
This article is so important because we’ve all been there yet so few admit it and talk about it. There is no shame in relating to this or even sharing this post. You never know who is suffering and needs these words. Let’s just start with these words straight from the...
by Firefighter Wife | May 20, 2015 | Difficult Calls, Everyday, Fire Family Life
{life and death reflections} I just had a more graphic conversation than normal about a run my husband took yesterday. A girl’s hand was amputated in a car wreck and I couldn’t resist asking if they recovered the limb. It’s like some weird human...
by Firefighter Wife | Feb 9, 2014 | Difficult Calls, Everyday, Fire Family Life
The last call I got from my husband last night was heart breaking. He was on a short break to warm up from being on a missing person hunt. In deep snow. In single digit temperatures. He didn’t have to call me and possibly shouldn’t have even taken that...
