Post 42
Aloha, my precious little snowflakes. Welcome to another Friday.
I have no new news for you. We are all still trapped in our own private hells of the COVID-19 experience, whatever that looks like for you, my condolences. I was thinking what it would be like to drown in your own breathing last night and it made me sad. So. There you go.
Today’s chapter of emergency medicine is on controlling bleeding! Top tip of the day…if you have to apply a tourniquet, make sure that you are within 2 hours of a trauma facility and put that bad boy on as if you mean it. Seriously. No half-assed measures here. Put it on and leave it alone. Once you put it on, those cells at the distal ends of the wound are going to start dying and releasing all those toxins into the blood stream. If you pull it off without having some serious tools around you, all those poisons flow right into the heart and can shut that shit down. And really, who needs a cardiac arrest in addition to losing a limb? Am I right? I mean, come on. It’s already a rough day.
Also, your second fun emergency medicine fact for today, is that if you do need to restart someone’s heart with an AED and they happen to have a nitroglycerin patch, you need to remove it or you will light them on fire. That’s right, kiddos. You will blow up your patient. And you just know someone found that out the hard way.
‘Joe! What the fuck you do, man? Did you just blow that guy up?’
Joe, blinking in surprise, holding the remains of the AED stares back at his partner over the smolder hulk of what had been their patient. ‘Dude, I have no idea. Where are we? What’s going on?’
Ah, yes. That would have been a rough day.
Anyway, here’s this week’s story. I wanted to try a little more of an ‘animated short’ kind of story (since that’s the type I rolled for today), so it reads a little like a movie storyboard. I’m not super good at those, so it might be a little clumsy. Any playwrights or script writers are welcome to give me some pointers on how to make it less sucky. Happy COVID Friday, everyone. Stay disinfected out there.