Your Day

VEGANGELICA · 10-29-2011, 06:21 PM

I survived a birthday party that I hosted for 12 elementary school children plus a surprise addition of 3 of their siblings and 1 cousin who I didn't expect would attend.

Most memorable moments:

Children like sharks in a feeding frenzy as they scrambled for candy under a pull-string piñata.

Drops of blood on the bathroom floor and a toilet bowl smeared with blood on one side!

A child had a nose bleed and I made sure he had tissues and knew to squeeze his nose and put back his head. I then escorted him to the bathroom so he could wash the blood off his hands. He said he was okay and needed to use the restroom, so I left him alone and assumed he'd be okay. Never assume anything with kids. :/

FETCHER. · 10-29-2011, 09:44 PM

yo, vegan. Don't put someones head back when they be nose bleedin' bro.

VEGANGELICA · 10-29-2011, 09:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Aurora

yo, vegan. Don't put someones head back when they be nose bleedin' bro.

Thank you, K! I didn't realize that when someone has a nosebleed, putting the head back is the wrong thing to do.

(Luckily, the child wasn't doing what I suggested!

)

I just read why:

Quote:

REALLY? - Tilt your head back to treat a nosebleed. - NYTimes.com

Medical experts say that what most people know about nosebleeds is wrong. Tilting the head back, a technique widely considered proper first aid, can create complications by allowing blood into the esophagus. It risks choking, and it can cause blood to travel to the stomach, possibly leading to irritation and vomiting.

The American Academy of Family Physicians says the best treatment is to sit down, lean forward and keep your head above your heart, which lessens the bleeding. Leaning forward also helps drain the blood from the nose and keeps it from the esophagus.

A report in the British journal BMJ says you can stop the bleeding by using your thumb and index finger to squeeze the soft tissue just below the bridge of your nose for 5 to 10 minutes. A cold compress or ice pack placed across the bridge of the nose can also help

THE BOTTOM LINE

Never treat a nosebleed by leaning your head back.

FETCHER. · 10-29-2011, 10:12 PM

haha I didn't think you'd actually done it, I assumed it was slight head tilt-age to avoid blood on carpets and such haha but yeah you shouldn't do that. I'm a first aider and in actual fact I didn't even click on and I'm "whiteboi wasted" tonight.

edit: I must be better at my job than first anticipated.

Howard the Duck · 10-30-2011, 04:09 AM

just woke up

and it's 5pm here

**Janszoon** · 10-30-2011, 07:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Il Duce

just woke up

and it's 5pm here

Ah, so it's a 12 hour time difference between there and here. I find that fascinating for some reason.

bob. · 10-30-2011, 09:36 AM

i will spend my day on an airplane.....fly to Chicago and then Orlando.....thank satan for Xanax and ipods

Mykonos · 10-30-2011, 09:42 AM

Last day of half term, and I get the feeling I'm going to spend the whole thing procrastinating over homework I should have done at any other point in the week. Don't you just love the feeling when you realise you've got a bunch of homework to do that you'd forgotten about when you decided to leave the rest of it to the last day?

bob. · 10-30-2011, 05:10 PM

Sitting at midway (Chicago).....seriously why don't airports have a box for smokers!?.....on top of that 7 bucks for a Sam Adams!

TockTockTock · 10-30-2011, 05:38 PM

I had two strange dreams last night:

The first one: I argued with someone about Michael Jackson while I was wearing a bunny suit. The other person kept claiming that Jackson was the first musician to experiment in the combination of music and video, and I proved him wrong by saying Beefheart was one of the first (if not the first) to do so. I later went on to mess around on some strange piano-like instrument.

The second: I met the Dalai Lama and then proceeded to smoke a joint with Sun Ra... which is strange because Sun Ra was disgusted by drugs and prohibited any of his musicians from taking them.

Oh, and I have finally given up recommending music to my younger brother (I finally realized this today)... It's kind of pointless when you're dealing with someone who thinks that all jazz music sounds like elevator music and that The Velvet Underground was a rip off of The Beatles.

10-30-2011, 09:36 AM	#17247 (permalink)
bob. Still sends his reguards. Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Trying to get out of the cat town.... Posts: 5,039	i will spend my day on an airplane.....fly to Chicago and then Orlando.....thank satan for Xanax and ipods __________________ A kiss is the beginning of cannibalism. Reach out, pierce the fine fabric of the sheltering sky, take repose.

10-30-2011, 09:42 AM	#17248 (permalink)
Mykonos AWhatup Ganache? Join Date: May 2011 Posts: 381	Last day of half term, and I get the feeling I'm going to spend the whole thing procrastinating over homework I should have done at any other point in the week. Don't you just love the feeling when you realise you've got a bunch of homework to do that you'd forgotten about when you decided to leave the rest of it to the last day? __________________ 'Not that Becktionary, the Rhyming Becktionary!'- Bender Bending Rodriguez

10-30-2011, 05:10 PM	#17249 (permalink)
bob. Still sends his reguards. Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Trying to get out of the cat town.... Posts: 5,039	Sitting at midway (Chicago).....seriously why don't airports have a box for smokers!?.....on top of that 7 bucks for a Sam Adams! __________________ A kiss is the beginning of cannibalism. Reach out, pierce the fine fabric of the sheltering sky, take repose.

10-30-2011, 05:38 PM	#17250 (permalink)
TockTockTock They/Them Join Date: Nov 2010 Posts: 1,914	I had two strange dreams last night: The first one: I argued with someone about Michael Jackson while I was wearing a bunny suit. The other person kept claiming that Jackson was the first musician to experiment in the combination of music and video, and I proved him wrong by saying Beefheart was one of the first (if not the first) to do so. I later went on to mess around on some strange piano-like instrument. The second: I met the Dalai Lama and then proceeded to smoke a joint with Sun Ra... which is strange because Sun Ra was disgusted by drugs and prohibited any of his musicians from taking them. Oh, and I have finally given up recommending music to my younger brother (I finally realized this today)... It's kind of pointless when you're dealing with someone who thinks that all jazz music sounds like elevator music and that The Velvet Underground was a rip off of The Beatles.