Day 4

this morning was horrible. i ate a breakfast of cracklin oat bran and headed to class. at about 0830 i started feeling a little sick. i just brushed it off. then it got worse. over the next hour and a half i was in and out of the bathroom. it was terrible i got sick which helped only a little. i came back the last time after falling asleep in the bathroom and we were going over how to splint a leg for extraction. i had missed a lot already and i felt ok if i just sat and didn't move to much. so i played dummy and let them wrap my leg up when we were practicing. oh and before that we took a quiz which i had to leave in the middle of then come back and finish then leave agian. grrr. we went over more notes after seeing how well we made the splints. i ended up sitting on the floor cause that is the only way my stomach would stop hurting. we didn't get to lunch until 1215hrs and since our driver was going to be a patient for later in the day we had to wait until 1230hrs to leave. we returned a little late and jumped right into how to fix a dislocated shoulder. we practiced that for a little bit then went in for more notes. at about 3 we started getting ready for our first simulation. i ended up being the primary rescuer. we went out to the woods and started everything up. my team was second so we had to wait a while for the next call to come in. when it did we hiked up and found some patients laying around. the first one that we came to ended up beinig my friend Aaron. a tree had fallen on his back while he was out hiking. so my secondary and i went through all the steps. our teach Daz came around with a video camera to put some pressure on us but it didn't bother me to much. i was confident with what i was doing. although looking back on it i realized that things could have been done better and quicker. but it is learning expierence and i most certainly learned a lot. all in all it was quite fun!! we then drove back to PING and watched the video and debriefed on what all happened. now i am going to do my homework, shower and go to sleep. toodles!