[tri-wings] Re: tri-wings Digest V8 #32( being blunt medically again)

>>>>>>>>>>susan,
i really admire you for making it through and passing your class.  i know it

wasn't easy.

i just had a similar experience.  i needed to do a recert class for my new 
job.  halfway to the class in orangeville (from elora) i knew i was in 
troubloe .  my co worke was driving with me.  she talked me through some of 
it. she had lost a sister and had a good idea how i felt.  when we got to 
the class, they were asking has anyone ever performed cpr, called 911....

i did bolt but managed to do it fairly casually. i really hate to cry in 
front of 15 people i have never met.  thank god i work at a non profit 
organization with a values and ethics statement that makes them promise to 
be nice to their employees and help them cope with or even avoid trauma. 
they are willing to appeal for a ministry level  cpr exemption for me if i 
want<<<<<<<<<<<<<

I so hear you, I really didn't think it would be a problem...........hey I
have done CPR recert since, oh 1983............and I have done my neonatal
resuscitation since Bec died, not an issue,( I think that's different
because its when life begins and related to issues in utro its not the same
as when life ends )  I think the real issue was the instructors, talking
about it in a very blunt way about dead people. I find when they the
teachers who for us are paramedics know they are teaching nurses they are
very blunt and graphic, talking about VSA patients ( basically dead)  their
colour, breaking ribs during CPR ect and the reality of how unsuccessful CPR
is unless it is a witnessed event.........really got to me............I gave
Rebecca Tylenol at about 3 am and by about 9:30 am she was gone, as much as
I  tried she was gone, we called 911 because I was sure I had a heart
beat............it was mine......... it just brought it all back so
fresh................I did tell the instructor the name of one of the
ambulance attendants who came that day ( someone I "knew" who "knew" about
Rebecca;'s condition)  I told the instructor how much it meant to me that it
was someone I knew so hopefully she will pass that on as it meant a lot to
me and I am sure it was a horrible shift for Joyce the paramedic coming to
the house of someone she Knew.............
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