Random Facts

1) I have a little ‘birth mark’ on my right hand.
2) I have joined a gym after recently finding out just how unfit I really am!
3) I have quite a few pairs of stripey tights (rainbow, red/black, black/white, white/purple) and have been known to dress a bit eccentric!
4) Photography is one of my main loves and helps keep me sane!
5) When I was younger I fell on glass and I have a scar across my left leg from it and to this day I CANNOT touch it, it goes right through me.
6) I haven’t watched a movie in a long time. Just not interested.
7) Prefer coffee black (or little milk) with no sugar.
Can’t drink tea makes me feel sick.
9) I always wear odd socks.
10) I don’t like wearing trainers.
11) Joining the Red Cross is one of the best decisions I have made, go join! http://www.redcross.org.uk/standard.asp?id=40488

12) I want to go back into education this year.
13) Sometimes when I drink a hot drink I need to have a cold drink with it.
14) My bed = <3
15) I’d rather ironing than washing up any day.
16) Could live on jacket (baked) potatoes
17) I do have self esteem issues and struggle to accept compliments!
18) My gerbils are so cute I just want to eat them <3 (not literally)
19) When sales people phone I enjoy having a laugh with them
20) When I was really young I remember the first two songs I wrote (crap ones, but yeah ), one was about chili con carne and the other was about three cows down by a river. Haha
21) I can’t leave the house without putting some makeup on, even if it’s just mascara, I feel so self concious!
22) I’m into all sorts of music except reggae and don’t mention that ketchup song >_>
23) I like drawing but I haven’t done any for a while.
24) On that subject I have done personal art projects in the past (after I left school).
25) I like mooses, koalas and sheep <3
26) I love socks! And I, for one, don’t moan or sigh under my breath when I get them for Christmas or Birthday, the more the better! lol <3
27) I don’t like odd numbers and if possible I try to ’round up’ to the nearest even. Like when I’m listening to car radio on the volume control I can’t have it at 13 it has to be at 12 or 14.
28) I don’t like mushrooms, never tried them and don’t intend to, but I don’t mind mushroom flavoured food.
29) I was born on 29th April 1988 at Royal Gwent Hosp on a Friday at 9am!|
30) I also like round 10′ed numbers, so when I got to 27 I wanted to round this up to 30.

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Trauma

I thought I’d type up an entry to let you know what else has been going on. Early January I went on a Trauma course for the weekend, on Monday morning I woke with aches in muscles I didn’t know existed. The course had an extremely practical nature and we were outside for quite a bit of it in the cold, wet weather. The Trauma course is an advanced course for people in the Red Cross who want to become Paramedic Crew in the ambulances. It involves more hands-on stuff having to see to head, abdominal, spinal injuries as well as fractures and other bits and pieces and we play with monitoring equipment too. If I go into the course in depth I would be here all night but my brain and body hasn’t had that much exercise for months! Playing with the long boards was fun. Goodness me I don’t think I have ever sweated as much. We walked in on one of numerous senarios faced with someone who, by looks of, fell off a chair (of course) so we suspected spinal injuries and played the safe route and got her on the board. We had to use a scoop first and anyway it took us about 40 minutes in total to imobilise the ‘casualty’ on the board. Hard work. Very hard work!

I was really nervous at first because everyone else on the course had been on the course before, but it was my first time and they were a lot more experienced than me.. it wasn’t a full course either, technically, I shouldn’t have been on it but my service manager knows I want to get on the ambulances and sit my IHCD so he arranged so I could go on it.

Anyway I thought I’d have to wait until June/July to sit the full course but apparently if I’ve done the practical side and feel confident enough to go with it, all I need now is learn the theory (body works, anatomy etc) then I can sit the IHCD exam in April.

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