First Aid

Two days on a First Aid course.

Only one other woman, D, and she had to leave for half of the first day – just when we had to start practicing on each other:

Instructor: M, do you have cooties?
M: No.
Instructor: Okay J, you can work with him now, can’t you?

Day 2:

Instructor: OK, one partner get on the floor.
D: Do we have to Touch each other?
J: Yes.
D: Did you have to do this yesterday?
J: Yes.
D: Di you have to actually touch ‘them’ yesterday.
J: Yes.
D: oh, I am sooo sorry.
J: Yup, you owe me big.

Snippets:

Jones’ Law: Murphy was an optimist.

If my mother in law is chocking, do I have to do the Heimlich on her?

New things I learned:

You cannot re-start a heart by CPR alone – it needs to be shocked.

You don’t shock a flat line – all the TV shows are wrong!

Compressions are more important than the breathing – you can skip the breathing all together – too many people refused to do CPR because of the mouth-to-mouth.