Wow Diana, I am sorry you had such an bad week. You saved a life! I am so proud but hope you don't have to do it again. Take care of yourself! Wendy CT [email protected]
On Apr 5, 7:24 pm, Diana Bonn <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nailtech?hl=en.
