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Red Eye's and other strangeness from last night.
I didn't say that I wouldn't because I would be dishonest to say that
I was not a man-ho in my single days. Heartbeat was optional, and
number of legs was certainly negotiable. Pregnant was acceptable--As
I used to tell my wife... "You can't catch it twice!!!" Usually this
preceded me going to the couch to retire for the evening. ;)
On 2/7/07, Dan Bubb <jdbubb@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> she's 16 weeks pregnant and you want to know if she was hot!
>
> Hahahahahahaha!
>
> Thank God for the Chris' and the Marc's of the world!
>
>
> From: "Marc Getty" <marc@getty.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 12:26 PM
> Subject: RE: Red Eye's and other strangeness from last night.
>
>
> >
> > 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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