Every call has a story — and for Paramedic Joannah Horelica, it's her mission to be the healing hands when people need them most.

In this episode a paramedic with nearly 11 years on Abilene's streets, takes us inside the ambulance for a raw, unfiltered look at:

✅ Why she started at 18 and became the "passenger princess" who won't drive

✅ What really happens in the back of an ambulance at 70 MPH

✅ How she can drive past houses and know exactly what happened there

✅ The difference between EMTs, Advanced EMTs, and Paramedics

✅ Why some calls require intubating patients while doing CPR

✅ The emotional weight of being someone's last face before they die

🎧 Get ready for a heart-stopping conversation about 12-48 hour shifts, life-or-death decisions in moving vehicles, and what it really takes to hold someone's life in your hands.

From delivering babies in the field to performing emergency procedures on the roadside — this is adrenaline, heartbreak, and hope all rolled into one powerful story.

"We're not God, you know, like, we're not the one that they have to answer to. We're here to do a job, and that job is to help and to heal. No matter your background, no matter what you've done... you could be the last face they ever see."

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