Day 3

sooooo day 3 started with a bowl of Lucky Charms! in class we went over the medical/legal portion of being a WFR. we also started working on the nervous system. learning about the spine and ways to check it. we also went over diabetes. today we spent a good amount of time on PAS drills. which are little simulations. after lunch we worked on patients that were found with a MOI for a spine injury laying on their sides and stomaches. we had to get them laying on their back in postition 1 with out posing a large threat to their spines. this was interesting and hard. we also had to move a patient from a pinned position to postition 1. we simulated a pin of the legs, then a pin of the upper body and also a pin of a skiier rapped around a tree with their legs under a rock. that was a hard one. but all of this has been awesome. i am learning so much. later that day we did a back boarding lesson. but instead of showing us exactly how to do it Daz let us go in 3 groups and we had 20 min to get the patient on the back board in a comfortable position that wasn't going to cause the patient any more problems if they would have to be in that postition for up to 2 hours. i got to be the patient in my group! it was fun. i choose to be victim cause i had recent expierence with backboarding people and no one else did. so i choose to take myself out of the help and see what they came up with. it was interesting. i got to had sturups and i was so fit and wrapped up in a blanket i felt like Han Solo when he was frozen. Daz took a picture of each of us so i did the hands up and mouth open look of Han. haha!! it was fun!. i got to be carried to another place it was awesome. but i would not want to be a true patient. no spine problems for me thanks. that was about it for that. we went back in for some more lecture. then we had another drill at the end. it was a good day. tomorrow we have a quiz and our first outdoor in the wilderness simulation. its gonna be wet, muddy, and AWESOME!! goodnight!