I had CPR and CFA course today!!! So fun! There were like only 13 of us, so Mrs Anis and Ms Ong joined in too! Thank goodness they weren't in my grp though, or I'll have had to be so stiff. I mean, they are nice, but still, they're teachers, aren't they? I was in Lucy's and Nazirah's(not sure of spelling) grp. My grp so rawked la. Lucy is alr in red cross, so she knows some of the first aid stuff. Nazirah kept the whole grp alive and laughing. Among the 13 of us, we got to know each other, even if we never met each other before. I was the first to arrive, cos my dad sent me on the way to work, and he wanted to avoid ERP. I got there at 7.40, and the centre only opened at 8.15. So I sat outside happily and msged Ruixin. Thank goodness for Ruixin. I faked a few calls when suspicious looking characters came by too. Waited til about 7.50 when a 101 girl came. I don't think I asked for her name, but anyway, from then on, people arrived quite quickly. By the time it was 8.15 and the person came to open the door, there were 7/8/9 of us there alr. We had plenty of time to chit chat. Then, got friendly with Nazirah when we went to station 2 with Lucy. I pity Shi Jia. I mean, with both teachers.. Alone. Poor girl. We learnt how to do CPR. It was so amusing. It looks so easy, but it isn't actually. Nazirah was zai at it though. I mean, we need to push down 4-5 cm before the click is heard. It's kinda tiring if you need to do more than 1 cycle. The mouth to mouth thing was okay i guess. At least we get the face shield thing. Yay I shall run through the procedere to see if I remember it all. 1. Check for danger. 2. Check for response ie. Hello! Hello! Are you OK? 3. Call for help. ie. Help! Call ambulance 995! 4. Check for breathing ie. Look, listen, feel. 5. Cover Little Anne's mouth and pinch Little Anne's nose, then blow in (abt 2 secs) 6. Release Little Anne's nose for air to escape, basically, for her to exhale. 7. Repeat procedere 8. Check pulse 9. Little Anne has no pulse, so CPR is performed. Find the rib and trace it with middle finger til you reach the serrum? Sth like that. 10. Put index finger down. 11. Place heel of hand at some angle. 12. Place other hand over first hand and interlock fingers. 13. Pump down counting 1&2&3&4&5&1&2&3&4&10&1&2&3&4&15, ensure only heel of hand touches Little Anne. 14. Repeat cycle thrice. 15. Take Little Anne's pulse and breathing 16. Little Anne has a pulse but no breathing. 17. Perform rescue breathing ie. 12 breaths per minute 18. Take pulse and breathing again. =)
The choking thing is amusing too. -Person chokes- 1. Ask 'Are you choking?' 2. Person nods. 3. 'I can help!' 4. Go behind the person and position leg between person's leg for support. 5. Place middle finger on person's hip area and trace to slightly above navel. 6. Put index finger down. 7. Place clenched fist above fingers, thumb in. 8. Remove fingers and place hand over fist. 9. Get person to bend over. 10. Thrust in upward and inward motions til person coughs out item.
We had lunch after that. Went for lunch with Nazirah, Lucy, Shijia, but we brought our food back to the place to eat, where we met Alethea and the other 101-ers and... yeah. We had plenty of time to talk over lunch too. Then we experimented with the milo, coffee and tea. I drank lots of milo and lipton tea. I was nice and didn't make yucky combinations of all 3. =) -coughlucycoughnazirahcoughshimincough- Whee!
There was first aid after that which was so fun! Reef knots are cool and doughnuts rawk! My first doughnut was so prettaye. My practical test was on incision cuts, cause my 'cousin' cut herself. I was supposed to 'reassure' her, but I told her that she was a naughty girl and it was her own fault. The examiner stareted spluttering with laughter. Then, my 'cousin' started crying and said she would tell her mummy and her mummy would scold me cos I was supposed to take care of her. haha. Oh and then I asked her wy she was playing around with knifes in the first place cos she was cutting a tomato you see, then she said she was hungry... Anyway, because the crepe bandage was the wrong size, the examiner just told me to do an elevation sling thingy. Even though it is completely not required if someone cuts herself and it's breathing profusely. I temporarily forgot, but my 'cousin' helped me. =) And I forgot my Circulation, Sensation, Movement too, but fortunately, I remembered in time and started prodding Nazirah's fingers, and she obligingly moved it and said she could feel my touch. And the examiner said we both failed, but we both knew we passed, cos he was laughing. I was worried I would fail my CPR at first, cos I forgot the 'HELP! CALL AMBULANCE 995!' thing, but he didn't ask me to redo. Our examiner was nice la, basically. For the theory test, I didn't know how to do 3 questions, so I as worried I would fail, but I didn't. I got 19. I still don't know which I got wrong though, out of the 3 which I anyhow guessed. Nazirah got 17, and Lucy got 16. Exactly the passing mark. But I think they did better for CPR. Yay anyway, we ended at 4, not 5.30 like expected. So overall, I guess the course was nice and fun! Fairly useful too. In the first aid part. The CPR is err.... I'm so not gna perform Rescue breathing aka mouth-to-mouth on anyone. So yeah.
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