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Pip

#59085
March 05, 2010, 07:01:45 AM
Quote from: teddy037.2 on March 05, 2010, 06:28:58 AM
shit, time to refill my water bottle and get some  [coffee] and yell at kids

[laugh] You gonna shake your cane at them whilst yelling at them to get out off your lawn? Have a good 'un, Teddy.

Sorry 'bout your finger, Ms. Mary.
"You can fight a lot of enemies and survive, but not your biology."

Wouldn't fat air be easier to disappear into?

Bick

#59086
March 05, 2010, 07:21:05 AM
Quote from: teddy037.2 on March 05, 2010, 06:28:58 AM
man, if 40 is old, no wonder I'm falling apart!

We are all still young compared to Natethuselah.  ;D
It's all in the grind, Sizemore. Can't be too fine, can't be too coarse. This, my friend, is a science. I mean you're looking at the guy that believed all the commercials. You know, about the "be all you can be." I made coffee through Desert Storm. I made coffee through Panama while everyone else got to fight, got to be a Ranger.

* A man can never have too much whiskey, too many books, or too much ammunition *

KnightofNi

#59087
March 05, 2010, 07:27:36 AM
Quote from: Bick on March 05, 2010, 07:21:05 AM
We are all still young compared to Natethuselah.  ;D


HA!  [laugh]
Life, alas is very drear. Up with the glass and down with the beer!
Quote from: RB on September 09, 2009, 05:31:47 AM
Seriously, when i am 800years old i want to rock like Lemmy! it is a religion that requires lots of determination, drugs, and Marshall stacks.

now with clavicle of steel (stainless) wrist o' steel (11/2011)

DrDesmo

#59088
March 05, 2010, 07:46:08 AM
Happy Friday all  [beer]

Going to get the track bike this weekend  ;D
'95 916
'12 800XC

LMT

#59089
March 05, 2010, 09:01:54 AM
Got an email from a student today!

Dear Mary,



I'm glad I kept your card from the class I had with you.  I've had red crosses before, and as an EMT, I've always struggled with taking standard first aid classes from instructors with no field experience.  Although I'm sure it can be annoying to have students ask as many questions as I did, I'm really thankful for your patience, the quality of your skills as teacher and of course the underlying experience from which you project your experience into the training.  It just makes that subject matter seem more relevant.



Funny thing, or perhaps not…

The Friday night of our class, I was walking out of Top Foods with my three kids, and right in front of me was a woman on the ground that had been hit by a car.  It wasn't too serious, but as a trained first aider (from that day) it sure gave me a lot of confidence to jump in and offer to help.  She was banged up a little, but since the shopping cart she was pushing took most of the energy, she was able to get up and walk on her own, with a few bruises…



It gets worse...



As the Safety Officer in our company (which is a secondary role at my small company) I had someone run into my office the week before last and tell me someone had passed out and needed help.  I swiftly walked to the first aid station and got to the person lying down.  Unfortunately they had had a massive heart attack.  I had never given CPR before, but fortunately, the recent training, especially with the mask, really made it easier.  One thing that really caught me off guard is that when I gave a breath, he exhaled, then inhaled!  Although I couldn't find a pulse, I checked again.  How could he breath if he didn't have a pulse?!? I wondered.  I gave four breaths, confused as ever, since he would breath on his own between two of the breaths.  A co-worker started doing compressions.



I learned later of something called agonal breathing.  Its not too uncommon, so I'm told, but it really confused the heck out of me.  Being trained in the old school of “if they can breath, they have a pulse” really made me question whether we should do chest compressions.  Sadly enough, although the fire department arrived within 10 minutes, the employee could not be revived.



Believe it or not, this is the second heart attack at my work in about a year.  The other was milder, with a woman, so we never had to do CPR.  She just had neck, stomach, chest pain and a history the led me to call 911.   It was at that time I pressed for getting and AED.  The economy has been hard on my company and AED just seemed imprudent at the time.  We went 33 years without needing one, but now it seems like we're pressing our luck, even catching up.



Anyway, I put all the training you gave me to good use, and I would like others to receive training from you on First aid/CPR/AED.  I didn't get the AED training, so I'd like to sign up for a course where you are the instructor.  I could have class here at Aseptico and open up the training for others.  What would that cost?



Thanks for being the best instructor I've had for First aid CPR!  And make sure your boss gets a copy of this!!!

Grampa

#59090
March 05, 2010, 09:04:04 AM
Yay Mary!  pay'n it forward with life give'n skills.  [thumbsup]
Gaspar, Melchior and Balthasar kicked me out of the band..... they said I didnt fit the image they were trying to project. 

So I went solo.  -Me

Some people call 911..... some people are 911
-Marcus Luttrell

cyrus buelton

#59091
March 05, 2010, 09:13:19 AM
So I am sitting at the Periodontal Plastic Surgeons office right now.

Tiff is getting the first portion of a dental implant installed (note: make the beast with two backsing expensive).

Get your Wisdom Teeth out!!! That is what caused this. She waited too long, pushed teeth, long story short, it killed one of her back mollars, so she is getting a titanium rod installed in her gum right now, then goes back in 3 months for the tooth itself.

Anyway. The office is really nice, but the OR's aren't private. I am the only one here.

I can hear them drilling away, sucking out saliva/blood, and of course can hear the pulse monitor machine, so I know she is at least still alive back there (she went for the general).

I am not adverse to medical scenes, as I was a volunteer fireman before and my Dad is a doc, so spent a lot of time around that.

Hell, he let me scrub in with one his friends on Open Heart Surgery when I was 16.

Now that is some shit..........!!

However, some don't have thick stomachs and I would be midly disturbed if I was one of those at this facility.

but damn, it is nice and they have single cup made Caribou Coffee packets for my use.

No wifi, which is disappointing, but my ATT Air Card is actually working.
No Longer the most hated DMF Member.

By joining others Hate Clubs, it boosts my self-esteem.

1999 M750 (joint ownership)
2004 S4r (mineeee)
2008 KLR650 (wifey's bike, but I steal it)

Bick

#59092
March 05, 2010, 09:17:15 AM
Quote from: cyrus buelton on March 05, 2010, 09:13:19 AM
So I am sitting at the Periodontal Plastic Surgeons office right now.

Dentist! from Little Shop of Horrors movie

[evil]

;D
It's all in the grind, Sizemore. Can't be too fine, can't be too coarse. This, my friend, is a science. I mean you're looking at the guy that believed all the commercials. You know, about the "be all you can be." I made coffee through Desert Storm. I made coffee through Panama while everyone else got to fight, got to be a Ranger.

* A man can never have too much whiskey, too many books, or too much ammunition *

Bick

#59093
March 05, 2010, 09:22:13 AM
It's all in the grind, Sizemore. Can't be too fine, can't be too coarse. This, my friend, is a science. I mean you're looking at the guy that believed all the commercials. You know, about the "be all you can be." I made coffee through Desert Storm. I made coffee through Panama while everyone else got to fight, got to be a Ranger.

* A man can never have too much whiskey, too many books, or too much ammunition *

teddy037.2

#59094
March 05, 2010, 11:14:20 AM
Quote from: Ghostly Pip on March 05, 2010, 07:01:45 AM
[laugh] You gonna shake your cane at them whilst yelling at them to get out off your lawn? Have a good 'un, Teddy.

I should get me a cane...

and YAY  [beer] Mary!

ducpainter

#59095
March 05, 2010, 01:38:45 PM
Quote from: Bick on March 05, 2010, 07:21:05 AM
We are all still young compared to Natethuselah.  ;D
I'm going to make special arrangements to piss on your grave. ;D
"Once you accept that a child on the autistic spectrum experiences the world in
 a completely different way than you, you will be open to understand how that
 perspective
    is even more amazing than yours."
    To realize the value of nine  months:
    Ask a mother who gave birth to a stillborn.
"Don't piss off old people The older we get, the less 'Life in Prison' is a deterrent."


Grampa

#59096
March 05, 2010, 01:42:36 PM
Quote from: ducpainter on March 05, 2010, 01:38:45 PM
I'm going to make special arrangements to piss on your grave. ;D

still shake'n the bush boss
Gaspar, Melchior and Balthasar kicked me out of the band..... they said I didnt fit the image they were trying to project. 

So I went solo.  -Me

Some people call 911..... some people are 911
-Marcus Luttrell

ducpainter

#59097
March 05, 2010, 01:43:49 PM
Quote from: bobspapa on March 05, 2010, 01:42:36 PM
still shake'n the bush boss
Find the guy with the horns...

it's the only way. ;)
"Once you accept that a child on the autistic spectrum experiences the world in
 a completely different way than you, you will be open to understand how that
 perspective
    is even more amazing than yours."
    To realize the value of nine  months:
    Ask a mother who gave birth to a stillborn.
"Don't piss off old people The older we get, the less 'Life in Prison' is a deterrent."


Bick

#59098
March 05, 2010, 02:25:37 PM
Quote from: ducpainter on March 05, 2010, 01:38:45 PM
I'm going to make special arrangements to piss on your grave. ;D

[roll]

EverNing to all the yout's of the DMF.  [beer]
It's all in the grind, Sizemore. Can't be too fine, can't be too coarse. This, my friend, is a science. I mean you're looking at the guy that believed all the commercials. You know, about the "be all you can be." I made coffee through Desert Storm. I made coffee through Panama while everyone else got to fight, got to be a Ranger.

* A man can never have too much whiskey, too many books, or too much ammunition *

ducpainter

#59099
March 05, 2010, 02:33:26 PM
Quote from: Bick on March 05, 2010, 02:25:37 PM
[roll]

EverNing to all the yout's of the DMF.  [beer]
That is divisive.
"Once you accept that a child on the autistic spectrum experiences the world in
 a completely different way than you, you will be open to understand how that
 perspective
    is even more amazing than yours."
    To realize the value of nine  months:
    Ask a mother who gave birth to a stillborn.
"Don't piss off old people The older we get, the less 'Life in Prison' is a deterrent."


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