Relax, I know almost exactly what I'm doing.

[jadesfire]

So I spent ten minutes this lunchtime rolling around on the floor and it wasn't even fun.

Okay, okay, the reason I was rolling around on the floor was that I'd volunteered to be the 'casualty' at the First Aid refresher that I was attending, so I partly have myself to blame. The thing is, when you do these things, you get used to a certain amount of...closeness...with your fellow trainees. There's just no good way to practice the recovery position or choking procedures without actually putting your hands on a person. It's not been a problem ever, apart from when I had to point out to someone that if they really held onto the wound like that, the blood was pretty much going to continue pouring everywhere (grip it, woman!). But I digress.

As I said, you get used to lying on the floor and having someone roll you around. But when I lay down, the first thing I heard from the trainer was:

"Sometimes the person won't be in a convenient position, and you'll have to manhandle them."

Luckily he was rather big and I am average-sized, so there wasn't too much pushing and pulling and awkwardness. Plus, you know, I was doing the whole 'I'm unconscious' thing, although I drew the line at doing his sound effects for him. Also also, do other folks keep their eyes open or shut when they're the dummy? I couldn't decide. Plus I was kind of sleepy.

So that was my day. My brain situation continues rubbish, but I'm staggered by the generosity of folk over at help_haiti. The main bidding is now closed (I think I notified my winners right - if not, they know where to find me!), but the Lightning Round is still going if you want something speedy!

How's everyone else doing? Humpdays going okay? All downhill to the weekend now

Comments

[tiggothy.livejournal.com]

I usually get told off for giggling too much when I'm being a casualty for first aid training - I can't help being terribly ticklish!

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

Hee! That's usually my problem, but I was too busy being rolled about to really think about it!

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

I've been known to keep my eyes open - especially in mixed company. I've also been known to be the one who says, "As we've got a really tall person here can us slightly shorter people get a chance to practice on them?" Because always pairing up with people of a similar size during those things is logical but not necessarily helpful.

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

*nods* I had that problem with the choking thing. My partner wasn't a particularly big guy, but he was significantly bigger than me! Quite handy, really :)

[nightporters.livejournal.com]

You have more interesting lunchtimes than I do.

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

*grin* Not normally! It did make a nice change :)

[crashbarrier.livejournal.com]

I usually keep my eyes open during recovery position training because i am vaguely paranoid and I don't get any nasty surprises when the Muppet ones do something counter intuitive:).

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

I remember being a casualty once, many moons ago, during high school when the fire department needed a victim (I ended up getting stuck in the clamping stretcher as they caught my hair) and then at work, when we had a first aid course. I was a disagreeable person with a pen in my eye ;)