I now know how to do CPR!

[conuly]

I did the entire adult + child CPR and first aid thing, that's six hours in a classroom when I had forgotten to eat breakfast (and no break for lunch, either, because most people weren't doing the whole thing) and afterwards I ate and ate and then slept and slept.

But now I can do CPR!

By the end of the class I couldn't shut up. The lack of food didn't help (that's on me) nor the lack of adequate sleep the night before (that's on Finn, annoying poodle) but I'm sure I was really irritating to the instructor by then, so sorry. I know I was irritating to myself.

Comments

[thewayne]

I did a adult/child CPR class when I was working at the blind school. Even though I'm not an instructor, everyone goes through it in case you find a collapsed child or adult on the sidewalk around campus.

[lilysea]

Yay for knowing how to CPR! ^_^

[conuly]

Yes! I felt like shouting as I left "Hey! Somebody! Collapse on the ground so I can CPR you!"

[conuly]

Is that particularly likely to happen there, more than at other schools?

[dewline]

I should get that refresher class done. Sooner than later, preferably, given my current context.

[adafrog]

Sorry about not eating, but yay!

[conuly]

I feel much better now.

[thewayne]

Very good question.  I would say yes.  The school is the State School for Blindness, so they get normally the people with the most severe forms of blindness.  And that often comes with other medical problems piled on top.  Kids with lesser forms of blindness can usually be accommodated within their local school district, but they'd be brought down here for special intensive training if they ran into problems.  Kids within the county would be transported daily, kids from outside the county would be brought down Sunday afternoon and stay in dorms on-site, taken home Friday morning or afternoon IIRC.  I know there weren't many kids around on Fridays as a rule.

[bibliofile]

Yay for new, potentially lifesaving, skills. Go you.