Day 5

so day 5!!
feeling much better today, i had a small cup of lucky charms. not the best thing but the closest thing to cheerios. we had a lecture on anaphlaxis or something like that. after which we practiced using a needle to inject a patient with epinephrine. we injected a clementine with a saline serum just to practice. it was fun. then we started a lecture on thermal problems. we focused on hypothermia. after the lecture we went out to the common room and started going over how to wrap a patient who is in a severe hypothermic state. i volunteered to be the patient. so Gary, the other instructor, wrapped me up in a very warm package. i was in there for about 45 min. it was kinda comfortable. it was getting a little warm towards the end but other then that it wasn't to bad being tied in a bundle. i felt like a well wrapped present!! haha. then they put me on a make shift litter and tied me to it. fun fun fun! we went back into the room for some more lecture time. then broke for a few hours for lunch. now i am writing this!! tonight at 5 we are going back and starting our second simulation. this time i get to be a patient. it is going to be cold and fun with lots of screaming and yelling!!! ill write some more after the sim. oh yeah and its going to be a night simulation so head lights are a must!!!

so night simulation. lots of fun. everyone met up at PING at 5 some instruction was given and the primary's and secondary's started getting gear ready. the patients (me and others) went out with Daz and Gary and they gave us the rest of our patient profiles. so over all there were 5 of us in the upper group and 5 in the lower group. i was in the upper. we were pretending to be a group of friends who were camping illegally out on campus property. for some reason we were all idiots. no one brought cooked food or any water. so. one person was in the tent with a gas lamp on, needless to say that's not good. another person was trying to light the stove to cook the raw hot dogs and the stove blew up in his face. the next person had a dislocated shoulder and anaphlaxis he was gathering fire wood when he heard the explosion and ran down the hill to find out what happened in the process he dislocated his shoulder. now hours before this Jack and i went to find some water for everyone. jack fell in the water and came down with severe hypothermia and i slipped and fell. hitting my head and impaleing my leg on a root. so. hours later the rescuers are called and help comes for all of us. so. Jason was my primary rescuer and Maria was the secondary. when they got there i was awake and really concerened about Jack i hadn't heard him for a while and i was worried something was wrong. i had high ASR (acute stress reaction) once they got me calmed down they checked my vitals and started to think about how to get my leg of this 1 in thick stump. they didn't want to just pull my leg off it in case there was more to it then what they saw. so im still yelling and Jason accidently bumps my leg so i scream in pain. haha next they are still thinking of how to get me out. Jason pulls out a small knife that has a toothed blade flicks it open and says we could cut it off. at that point i freak out screaming and yelling at him. see i thought he ment cut off my leg. haha a person in the wildernss would totally have thought the same thing right and we are suppose to make this as real as possible. so im screaming at him that he is sooo not taking my leg off. he was stunned at what he had just done. he couldn't even think of what to say. he got back on track tho and reassured me that they weren't thinking of cutting my leg just the stump. that was the funniest part of it all. so they decided to just pull my leg off it. they layed me down and said on the count of three we are going to pull. one and then he pulled my leg off. i screamed as loud as possible. Gary was video taping someone else and you could hear me screaming in the back ground. ha!! yelling at them for pulling it off on 2 instead of three. wow. that was fun. Gary came a cleared us so we could go help with other patients. we went to help out with Jack. we packaged him up and carried him out of the forest. after that we went back to PING and debriefed by watching the movie and talking about it. that was a fun night.

since we didn't have class the next day we went out to find some food. we walked all up Court street and by the time we were getting places food was closed so we went to bw3 and ate there. that was that!!