OMG Diana! What a rollercoaster! Girl.. YOU need some pampering! Wow! I had to save my husbands life at Applebees, of all places! He had just had his nose fixed,deviated septum, his throat lasered, and his tonsils removed, ALL AT ONCE! And.. he orders STEAK!? This is just a few days after surgery, when he is still trying to get used to breathing and swallowing again. He JUST had the packing taken out of his nose, and its like you have to learn how to breathe and swallow all over again. Anyway, he starts choking on a piece of steak, and NO ONE I mean NO ONE in the whole damn restaurant would come help! I had to get up, get behind him, and do the heimlich manuever! Gawd! The steak that was jammed in his throat came out, he was quite shaken, I was shaking, but by gawd, if I hadn't done it, he'd have been a gonner for sure! I took the CPR class and the first aid class a few years ago, when I was volunteering with the Young Marines Unit in our area. Good training, but they recommend repeating it every 2 years to keep your technique current. We had one dumb ass in our class who resuscitated "Annie" (the doll you practice on) until her poor head popped off! The teacher was gonna keep him after class.. I think "Annie" is expensive! So... learn both techniques... and you'll be ready for any emergency! (BTW, I had no idea what I was doing when I had to rescue my husband, I hadn't taken the course yet, this was about 15 years ago... I just remember reading about how it saves lives and it stuck in my head... Did you know that you are also supposed to use the heimlich manuever for drowning victims? It forces the water out of their lungs, and THEN you can do CPR! It does no good to do the CPR if their lungs are filled with water! I got this info right from Dr. Heimlich himself, when I went to his website to thank him profusely for giving me enough knowledge to save my husbands life. Ya just never know... what life will bring.. Pam Nail Designs Ohio
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, Apr 5, 2010 8:58 pm Subject: Re: NailTech:: iccky two weeks/cpr on client HOLY KATS DIANA!!!!! you poor thing!!! good for you for jumping in and getting to it. shes alive today because you didn't stand around and wring your hands. as for your other client, i cant even imagine. my heart breaks for her. all you can do is hold her hand while she cries and dont be afraid to talk about him. that's the last thing a parent wants is for their child to be forgotten. hugs to you!!!!! > Have had a horrible two weeks, personal stuff. But it was topped > off on Friday morning. > > At 7:30 a.m, I am doing a pedicure on a client that I do once a > year, ped and mani for her splurge. My ped chair sits about four > feet from the floor, with rotating seat, not the arm that swings open. > She is about53 years old. I was polishing her toes and I heard her > say, I am getting hot. I look up and she is taking her sweater > off. Didn't think much about it. Go back to polishing her toes. > > I heard something. I look up. Her eyes go back, head falls back, > and the next thing I know, in seconds, she leans over to her right, > and falls over the permanent arm on the pedicure chair, head first > to floor. On her way down she hits her head on the cabinet next to > the chair, and the other pedicure chair, then slams to the floor. > This women fell OVER the permanent arm on the pedicure chair. > BAMB!!!!!!!! > > I am screaming, call 911, call 911. She is breathing and shaking. > The stylist is on the phone, and yelling across the room asking me > questions for the person on the other end of the phone. I run over > there to answer the questions. > > All of a sudden the other 2 stylists are standing over her, and > start yelling, she is not breathing, she is not breathing. I run > back and this women is not breathing. OH CRAP.. I yell CPR, CPR,no > one knows how to do it. OH CRAP. I took a CPR class 20 years ago, > and could not remember a thing. OH CRAP!!! > > I feel her chest and there is no moving. zilch, nada, nothing. Did > I remember to check her pulse on her throat? NO. There was > nothing. So I remember how to hold my hands and start pushing her > chest, Gawd, I am thinking, I sooooooo don't want to do this. no, > no, no, I don't want to do this. I have no idea what count, or how > many times, I just kept pushing. All of a sudden I see and hear > breathe come out of her mouth. I stop and realize that she is > still not breathing and that it was from me pushing her chest. I > start again, push, push, push, saying no, no, no. > > All of a sudden she starts breathing and realized that she was > bleeding from her nose and mouth. Got her to turn her head > sideways because I was afraid she would choke. She started coming > out of it and kept telling her to take deep breathes, in out, in > out, in out......just didn't want her to stop, because if she > stopped I would have to do what I had no idea what I was doing. > > The police show up, the ambulance show up. She is talking now. > And after about 20 minutes they are taking her out the door, > strapped in and she wants me to get her purse and pay me!!!!!! > Don't worry about it!!!!!! As of yesterday, she was still in > hospital and they have no idea why. > > I was a mess, called my daughter who will be an RN in two weeks. > She is the one that made me focus on what I did, said that I saved > a life. Of course I didn't think that, because I don't know how to > save a life, and don't have the power to save a life. She kept > saying Mom, you did everything right. You did wonderful. You got > her heart beating again. You got her breathing again. Jeez, > overwhelming. > > Cried for 2 hours because of everything that has been going on in > the last couple of weeks. then............. > > My next client calls me, I am a mess, and she informs me that she > can't come in because her son committed suicide the night before. > Jeez. Okay all ready, I am done. No more. > > My client came in tonite, gawd, what a mess, just could not comfort > her enough. How sad. > > So I am going to take another CPR class, to be updated because they > have changed things, but I never never never never want that > responsibility again. NEVER. But what I want is not what I get. > So guess I want to ask you guys have you had the training, and how > long has it been. Thanks for listening. Deb.Lynnette and Alice > have been my anchors thru all of this. iccky iccky month. diana > from indiana > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "NailTech" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nailtech > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/ > group/nailtech?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NailTech" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nailtech?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NailTech" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. 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