St. John's Ambulance, Part II
In my copious amounts of spare time, I am thinking of becoming a volunteer for SJA. I would get first-responder training, which will definitely be useful for me in the future. Today's course focused on administering first aid to traumatic injuries (accompanied by videos with stressful music and wonderfully un-hysterical victims who answered questions clearly and concisely and didn't flail or shriek even when they got large foreign objects lodged in their eyes).
I acquired loot in the form of two first-aid kits: one for humans, one for pets (hey, cats can get injured too, especially since my kitties go outside), a book on first-aid for pets (mostly cats and dogs), and SJA's Officia Wilderness First Aid Guide. I read about 50 pages of it on my way home and it's chock-full of pertinent information and useful illustrations. fearsclave and ai731 in particular, you may want to check it out. It has a lot of useful information for providing first-aid for long periods of time (hours to days and even weeks), for those who are traveling or who live in remote areas.
In short, I am now certified in CPR, first-aid, and the use of a commercially-available defibrillator. Not the big medical kind with the paddles, but the small kind with adhesive charge pads. Still, I can now increase someone's chances of surviving respiratory and cardiac failure from 3% to 50%! It's very exciting.
ashforestwalker came by today and now the stairs and the large room in the basement are looking pretty gorgeous. Unfortunately, the weather has not been cooperating with the paint drying, but I hope we'll be able to get this done before ashforestwalker has to go back to his regular job.
I acquired loot in the form of two first-aid kits: one for humans, one for pets (hey, cats can get injured too, especially since my kitties go outside), a book on first-aid for pets (mostly cats and dogs), and SJA's Officia Wilderness First Aid Guide. I read about 50 pages of it on my way home and it's chock-full of pertinent information and useful illustrations. fearsclave and ai731 in particular, you may want to check it out. It has a lot of useful information for providing first-aid for long periods of time (hours to days and even weeks), for those who are traveling or who live in remote areas.
In short, I am now certified in CPR, first-aid, and the use of a commercially-available defibrillator. Not the big medical kind with the paddles, but the small kind with adhesive charge pads. Still, I can now increase someone's chances of surviving respiratory and cardiac failure from 3% to 50%! It's very exciting.
ashforestwalker came by today and now the stairs and the large room in the basement are looking pretty gorgeous. Unfortunately, the weather has not been cooperating with the paint drying, but I hope we'll be able to get this done before ashforestwalker has to go back to his regular job.