"Want, want, want, need, need, need", a co-worker in another life remarked as she hung up her phone.
And, here is a story echoed in many places about the struggle to provide emergency medical services that the public has grown to expect with resources that are becoming more scarce.
In a Texas Tribune article Terri Langford explores the uncertainty of residents and the challenges to officials for providing appropriate emergency medical care in rural and suburban counties.
Populations are aging, increasing the need for services related to emergency medicine.
Many small communities are seeing exponential growth with subdivisions bringing up like mushrooms after a rainstorm.
Vehicular traffic grows beyond road design capacity causing congestion and delays.
Many rural hospitals have reduced the services they provide for have closed all together, resulting in longer transport times for ambulances.
As the population ages so do the volunteers who may have provided emergency services. Some departments report they have no volunteers now.