Tampa Bay Paramedic Honored By Brother
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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.
00:12All right, on the phone today we have Clayton for First Responder Friday who is honoring his brother.
00:16Good morning, Clayton. How are you doing?
00:17Good. How are you?
00:18We are doing great. So we get to honor your brother Cody today.
00:21Why don't you go ahead and tell us how Cody serves our community as a First Responder?
00:25Well, he first started serving his community by enlisting in the military and becoming a combat paramedic.
00:31Okay.
00:32And after that, he didn't know what he wanted to do, but there was a crash that happened in front of him,
00:39and somebody was ejected, and he had to do CPR, and that kind of reignited his fuel for helping people.
00:45So he went back to school at USF, became a paramedic, and now is a paramedic.
00:50Wow. So he serves in our military. He was in the Army, you said?
00:53Yes.
00:54And he was a combat medic. He comes home, not sure what he wants to do,
00:58witnesses an accident where he has to actually get involved and use his skills as a medic,
01:04and this is what kind of brings him back to wanting to be a First Responder.
01:08Yeah, he wanted to help people.
01:09Wow. What a story. I mean, you've got to be so proud of your brother.
01:14Oh, yeah. The one thing that we both wanted to do was help out our community,
01:17and he chose the military, I chose hospitals, but he's doing great work.
01:20And now he's furthering his education in medicine as well, right?
01:25Yes. He is going back to school. He's a U.S. student going for a nurse practitioner.
01:29Wow. Man, this guy has a calling, no doubt about it.
01:32He loves helping people.
01:34I love that.
01:34And then his girlfriend, she's a critical care nurse at Bayfront. Just that's his life.
01:40There you go. A power couple right there. Clayton, tell me more about Cody just as a guy.
01:44If you had to describe your brother to the world.
01:47Very outgoing, very charismatic. He loves to be the life of the party.
01:51He plays pickleball all the time, goes to tournaments. He's very good at it.
01:55He gets first, second, third place almost all the time.
01:57And he just loves to be active and outgoing.
02:00Very cool, man. And when you guys get to hang out, what do you guys like to do?
02:03We go to talk off. That's what we do. We like to hang out, have fun, drink a little bit.
02:08I'm sure that's not competitive at all when you two are together.
02:11No, not at all.
02:13That's awesome, man.
02:14He doesn't like to lose. That's the one thing I beat him at.
02:17But, hey, I'll take what I can get, right?
02:18There you go, man.
02:19Well, listen, Clayton, we want to do this for Cody.
02:22We want to give you $200 in gift cards to hand over to him.
02:24Thanks to our friends at Crown Buick GMC and DeMesman & Dover Law Firm.
02:28A small way for us to say thank you to you and thank you to Cody.
02:32And we appreciate you guys so much.
02:34Thank you very much. That is awesome.
02:36Hey, it is our pleasure, man.
02:37Well, if you want to nominate someone for First Responder Friday or Military Monday, it's very easy.
02:41You just go to 99.5QIK.com.