First Responders Who Met in The ER Honored For First Responder Friday
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00:00We know the hard work and sacrifice they go through serving our community and keeping us safe.
00:06Let's honor another First Responder on 99.5 QYK.
00:11It is First Responder Friday today.
00:14We got Mary Claire on the phone who is honoring her husband.
00:17Good morning, Mary Claire. How are you?
00:19Good. I'm great. How are you guys?
00:20We are great. We get to honor your husband, Aldo, today.
00:23Tell us about Aldo. How does he serve our community as a First Responder?
00:26So he works for Pasco County Fire Rescue.
00:29He's currently at Station 38 in Wesley Chapel.
00:32Before that, he was over in the Holiday and Trinity area.
00:35He's been with Pasco for about 11 years.
00:38Now, did you meet him before he became a firefighter or after?
00:43After. Actually, I'm an ER nurse, so I met him at one of the emergency rooms when he was bringing in patients.
00:48Hey, now. Here we go, Mary Claire. That's what we want to talk about.
00:52Now we have the juice. Tell us how this went down.
00:55Um, I don't know. Like, he would come in all the time and I'd be like, oh my God, he's so nice. He's so nice.
01:00I never asked anything about him.
01:02And then finally, I dyed my hair and it like came out this like awful color and he like messaged me and he was like, I really like your hair.
01:09I'm like, oh, okay. And then we went on a date next week and I knew that day that he would be the one I'd marry.
01:18Wow.
01:20All over the hair. Now what color is the hair now?
01:22So I'm naturally red, but we went a little crazy red that time.
01:27Gotcha.
01:28I love it.
01:29That's awesome, Mary Claire.
01:30You know, obviously you know him and you thought he was so nice when you met him.
01:34What do you think makes him great at his job?
01:37So he just really cares about his patients.
01:41Most of the firemen just want to, you know, really be on that fire truck that's like where they are.
01:45But he really likes being on the medical aspect of it.
01:48He loves to teach new paramedics, you know, and he's so good at it, too.
01:52He has the patients and he speaks Spanish.
01:55That also helps a lot with his patient care, especially in the growing community here.
02:01So he really does care.
02:02I love that.
02:03You can tell, like, I know from my end when people bring in patients that, you know, some are better than others, but he is pretty great.
02:10Well, I mean, you'd be the person to judge him, too, because you know your stuff, too.
02:14I mean, I do judge him.
02:17Well, what are some of the things that you guys like to do when you guys aren't working?
02:20So right now we're expecting our first little one.
02:23Yay!
02:24Oh, Mary Claire!
02:25Yes.
02:27So I'm about 20 weeks pregnant, so Aldo Jr. will be here in August.
02:31Oh, my gosh.
02:32Aldo Jr.
02:33Yes.
02:35And then we like to go to Disney, Universal, which all of that kind of is on pause right now.
02:41But he plays video games, and I like to also.
02:45And he's a big family man, so his parents are very important to us.
02:49And then we just moved his 101-year-old grandfather into his parents' house this past week.
02:54Wow.
02:55So he's there a lot with them.
02:56So you're telling me that Aldo found a wife that enjoys playing video games with him?
03:01I know, right?
03:03Wow, man.
03:04What a keeper right here.
03:06Yes.
03:06Well, listen, Mary Claire, this is great.
03:08And congratulations to you.
03:10And also, thank you to you for what you do, because obviously you are a first responder
03:14as well.
03:15And we're so thankful for Aldo.
03:17We want to do this.
03:18We want to give you guys $200 in Visa gift cards, one from our friends at Crown Buick
03:22GMC, the other from our friends at DeMesman & Dover Law Firm.
03:26Obviously, there will be a lot of purchases you need to make as you get ready for this baby.
03:29Maybe that can help.
03:30Or maybe you guys can just go do something fun together.
03:32But it's a small way for us to say thank you to you both.
03:35And we're so glad we got to learn about Aldo.
03:37Yes.
03:37Thank you so much.
03:38I appreciate it.
03:39You got it.
03:40What a story.
03:40We want to hear yours as well, either for First Responder Friday or Military Monday.
03:45You can nominate someone right now.
03:47It just takes a couple minutes.
03:48Just go to 995QYK.com.