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Red Eye's and other strangeness from last night.
No not hot. Attractive in a somewhat plain kinda way. Kinda like me
except mine is in a round kinda way... ;) Sorry no sleep and
painkillers.
On 2/7/07, Marc Getty <marc@getty.net> wrote:
>
> Was she hot?
>
> -Marc
>
> Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
> '83 VW Scirocco California Edition
> '84 VW Rabbit GTI Pickup Truck
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Bubb [mailto:jdbubb@verizon.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 12:21 PM
> To: Chris Bennett; Scirocco List
> Subject: Re: Red Eye's and other strangeness from last night.
>
> Way to go Chris!
> Sounds like she was a lot better off with your assistance than she would
> have been.
> Thumbup!
> Dan
>
> From: "Chris Bennett" <scirocco16vr32@gmail.com>
> To: "Scirocco List" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 11:30 AM
> Subject: OT: Red Eye's and other strangeness from last night.
>
>
> > Let me say first that THANK GOD in HEAVEN or whatever YOU choose to
> > pray to... that I wasn't the one jacked up last night or I would be
> > COMPLETELY screwed.
> >
> > I get on the red-eye to Philly last night in Vegas. 11pm pac time.
> > As soon as we get up in the air I change my watch in anticipation of
> > landing at 6am. Approximately 3am Eastern Time the stewardess turns
> > on all the lights and announces that there is a medical emergency.
> > Was there a doctor or an EMT on the plane? No answer... crickets...
> > A couple minutes goes by and it's starting to sound a little more
> > desperate again the call for an EMT or doctor or now ANYONE with ANY
> > sort of medical training...
> >
> > I am thinking holy crap someone's got a bum ticker. I wasn't sure
> > what I could do but I was trained as ALL in the Navy are, to be a
> > Naval Firefighter, and I had specialized training as a medical/damage
> > control first responder. Keep in mind in a military mindset/time of
> > war priorities are a little different than in the civvie world--you
> > let people die to save the ship if you had to... so my training was
> > crude at best and at least a couple years out of practice now. I got
> > up to see what I could do to help. I walk back there and there's this
> > guy playing with the blood pressure cuff on this poor lady. She was
> > maybe 30, about 16 weeks pregnant and had passed out. He asked me if
> > I was an EMT and I couldn't help but laugh. No but I play one on
> > tv... So the stewardess's are completely useless, he's volunteer fire
> > fighter with basic first aid, but he couldn't find her pulse. I
> > suggested the carotid artery and he asked me where it was! (and I
> > caught him using his thumb)
> >
> > I always try to generate some sort of conversation with the patient to
> > distract them. You chat them up a little while observing a few
> > things. Respiration, color/claminess of the skin, pupils and so on.
> > I crack jokes... Ma'am I've got some bad news for you, you have no
> > pulse so therefore you must be dead. She thought that was pretty
> > funny. I took her pulse and it worried me. 90+bpm and weak. The
> > stethescope was crap so I couldn't get a decent blood pressure. They
> > got the oxygen out and made her lay down--I basically treated for
> > shock while I was gathering info. Stewardess comes up and wants to
> > know on behalf of the captain how serious it was--did we need to land?
> > I made it very clear that I was in NO WAY qualified to answer THAT
> > question but I suggested getting an FAA doc on the radio and giving
> > the stats. She was pregnant, no bleeding, no history of diabetes, no
> > gestational diabetes with her first kid, I asked her if she had a good
> > meal recently and she had. No history of anemia and no history of low
> > blood pressure. She asked for some ginger ale and we gave it to her
> > and her pulse slowly came down to about 60 (I monitored every 5
> > minutes) and was much stronger. I was thinking she had low blood
> > pressure and stood up too quickly in the bathroom. The doc on the
> > ground made the call that there was no need to make an emergency
> > landing, thanked me and that was about it.
> >
> > What bothered me was that I was the most medically qualified person on
> > the plane... considering what I know... very little--that is really
> > damn scary. If she had a broken bone or was bleeding horrendously I
> > could deal with that. I could even do CPR... but that's about it.
> > Jesus Christ I think I was more scared than she was. I told her when
> > taking her pulse that I usually didn't hold hands on the first date, I
> > kept her laughing so she wouldn't see how scared shitless I was.
> >
> > Additionally--WHAT THE HELL KIND OF TRAINING DO THESE FLIGHT
> > ATTENDANTS GET? They give those people AED's!!! I mean if it was me
> > in that situation I would have nightmare scenarios of one of them
> > yelling "CLEAR!"
> >
> > They seemed almost in a state of panic.
> >
> > EMT's were waiting when I got there I turned over my observations and
> > they wisked her away in an ambulance.
> >
> > Thank God it worked out. I got no sleep though.
> >
> > Chris
> >
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