If I only have a half hour, I might as well write something while eating cheez-its in The Bean
Yesterday was more exciting than it needed to be.
It's never a good sign when you start the day at 6:30 after 3 hours of sleep to study for a test and then actually need to go take that test (I got a C, but it was actually one of the higher grades). A test ,of course, followed by 10 hrs of work is really a treat though.
And I guess since I'm scheduled to work 65 hrs this week, something was bound to go wrong during one of those hours. To make a kind of long story short, an old swimmer at SLU started acting all crazy and loopy in the pools and it turns out he's diabetic and his blood sugar was really low and his body was in the process of shutting down completely. We eventually got to backboarding him out of the pool where he laid on the floor and drifted in and out of conscieness and then let out a load of projectile vomit all over himself and the pool deck. And (following the procedure we learned in training) we had to turn him on his side and do a fingerswipe. A fingerswipe involes (with gloves on of course) putting your fingers in to the victim's mouth and removing the "chuncks" so that their air passage stays open. And guess who was the life guard on duty? Me! But I guess I was in so much shock I jusk kind of did it. And it was really scary waitng for the paramedics to show up because the guy could have stopped breathing at any minute and i had the pocket mask out just in case. But the guys showed up and an hour later, I back up on the ladder like any ordinary pool day. My boss sain that in her 15 years as a certified lifegaurd, she has never had to deal with anything like that. And it was on my shift...awesome.
BW was eventless, TG. I fell asleep last night before 11:30. Surprisingly though, no nightmares about the events of the day.
I like it when my shifts are boring. Right, off to work...