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today i reached new heights of squeamishness. i spent most of my time trying not to faint and i only just managed it. all this week has been spent on a first aid course you see and i am learning a hell of a lot from a really good teacher, but perhaps i’m not the best person for someone to call upon in an emergency.
i have been fine with the rescue breathing and the chest compression stuff, but today we came onto shock and severe bleeding. i was having enough trouble with our teacher’s descriptive descriptions of what kind of bloody situations we might have to deal with, the video though nearly finished me off. squeamishness is weird. my toes start to go all wooey at any real sign of icky things and if something is really bad my fingers might start to go too. when they showed an arterial bleed on the video i found that my cheeks started tingling and by the time they got onto amputations i was feeling all weak and things were getting a bit foggy. it was then i decided that the cupboard door was much more interesting and that saved the day i think.
never mind, i can do good slings now and i know what to do if someone’s guts are falling out and lots of other things like that. whether i would actually be able to do it in real life is another matter. i guess i’ll go with the theory that when you have to do it you will be able to.
good luck to me for my exam on friday. hope i can save some more dummies lives.
