Closer to home

First let me apologize for the last 2 post being published late, just meant to write/add to them later and ended up forgetting that they were not published. Anyways this happened last night, my family and I were up at my aunt's house and my dad told me that he was having chest pain pointing to his left side. I was naturally concerned as my dad is well on in years and has high cholesterol, anyways, he described his pain as coming and going and tried to see if his pain was reproducible and thus maybe not cardiac but this wasn't the case he didn't look like any of the people that I had ever seen having a mci before, he was very calm and his vitals that I could take were all normal. But at the same time older people may not feel their pain as strongly and since we were only a couple minutes from the fire station that I work at, I offered to take my dad up to there to get a quick EKG. It is a whole different ball game when its family, it had nothing to do with how serious it was because I wasn't terribly concerned because he really wasn't exhibiting any other signs/symptoms, when we got to the station I just wasn't a very good EMT, I put the leads on my dad but I didn't really do all the other things I normally do like try to tell him to stay very still during when were running the EKG. Of course everything turned out fine I was just very surprised at myself I just didn't feel like I usually do on scenes, I never really understood why people say you shouldn't treat family, I always thought well it be easier for me to talk to them and for them to me. There was just something paralyzing about it that made me not act as well as I could have.