First Aid

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi All.
When I got my advanced first aid in 1986 it was pretty full on, included how to attend to a childbirth, we also saw some gruesome car accident scenes, but the one that made two blokes faint { very handy as we practiced on them] was a full on child birth, afterwards I couldn't wait to try my birthing skills in real life; but just as well I suppose I was never in that position, I only used my skills on hairy arsed building workers.
But just to show what some first aiders had to put up with on site; I was in my first aid shed one Monday morning when two blokes carried this bloke in with a broken leg, they said he had fallen when getting out of his car, I cut his trouser leg of and I could see right away that the break wasn't new, and I told him so, he said he had done it playing football on the Saturday, I told him he was lucky he didn't get gangrene and sent him off in an ambulance, the Dr at the hospital knew as I did that it was a three day old break, but he still got Compo.
Cheers Des

[Captain Kong]

Hi Des, I did that,
the night before we were sailing from the Tranmere Oil Terminal Birkenhead, just joined the ship that day we were on the Fair and I fell off the Waltzer and spun around by my leg and broke it. The crowd carried me back covered for me until the next morning at sea I said I had fallen down a ladder, I was laid up until Curacao and went to hospital there, and fixed with another three weeks laid up on the way to Trincomalee. , A five week cruise.
Brian