Best Christmas gift?

[Chief Wiggum]

What's the best Christmas gift that you ever received?

Mine was a Superman mini-pinball machine. This was a while ago(last year). It made more noise than any toy in history. My parents hated it.

[nickg]

my son who was born a few weeks before Christmas in 1985.

after that....my first Ludwig snare drum, Christmas 1964.

[xyneshia]

my gibson electric guitar...1995

[shooter1201]

ANY Christmas that found a GUN under the tree with MY name on it.

[deputy37]

this one is soooo easy now...

last Christmas night I got a 9-1-1 call, 7 yom not breathing, no pulse. It wasn't our call, so I transferred it for ambulance service, but knowing that dispatcher was alone, and I was in a room with five people doing nothing but eating... I offered to do the CPR. As I followed EMD protocol, about HALF WAY THROUGH the Dad says, "he's got a traech..." First and only CPR to stoma ever been done in my Center.

We got him back. I don't know his name. I don't know if he lived past the week, but I know that family did not loose their son on Christmas.

The night before, Christmas Eve morning at about 0300 I had done CPR with a Deputy who found his wife not breathing on the floor of the bathroom. I'd just met his 14 yo daughter that very night, in Dispatch, for the first time. Before the call was over, she was on the phone with me, coaching her Dad (one of MY BOYS) to do CPR on her Mom. We didn't win that one. It wasn't ours to win.

I have to add that when I tell about the 7 yo and the save. The one that beat the odds... because they are two sides of the same coin. While it was one of the hardest calls I've done, it was a privelege to try to help my Deputy.

I always wonder if the little boy lived. He had CP or CF or something like that... but the absolute best gift I've ever gotten was that save. Just knowing that family didn't have to face Christmas for the rest of their lives knowing it was the day their son died.

[Traffic_Goddess]

You know, I've been wracking my brain trying to think of what it would be...and nothing sticks out in my mind. How depressing...LOL

[Piper]

The best Christmas gift, I've not received yet, but I am working on it.

[Mr.Orange]

Life

[InSane1]

I'm with Mr. Orange on this one.

[MadMax]

Watching my (soon to be 2 yoa) son open his presents this Christmas, will be the best gift ever.............................................