It's been at least three weeks since I've walked. And worse, I'm using the elevator at Warren to go to the second floor! I am so out of shape. This A-Fib thing is kicking my ass. I get winded walking across a large parking lot and down a long hall. However, it is getting better. I think.
Coming out of school today was a table. I always check out the tables and this one had Tootsie Rolls. It was a drug prevention thing, specifically they were training people to administer Narcan during overdoses on campus. I wonder how many there are?
So I said I needed to get to my next job. (Really, I just wanted a Tootsie Roll.) They said it would take five minutes so okay I did it. I was not signing up for something that took an hour.
So I'm trained. It's really common sense for the most part. Call 911. Put on gloves. Roll the person to their back and try to arouse them pressing on their sternum. You can choose to do mouth-to-mouth which now has a new name that I've forgotten. It's a nasal spray you have to handle it carefully taking it out of the package and holding it without touching the red part. Then you put it in the persons nose and hit the red part. Then open the second one. Wait three minutes and do the other side. By that time 911 should be there. They said the biggest problem is getting the person to stay put. The wake up Jonesing for more drugs and want to take off.
Now my idea was to leave it in the car. But I can't. It's sensitive to extreme hot and cold. They want you to have it on you at all times. Basically because you won't know when you need it. I can't ever find my phone. How will I keep tract of a life saving drug?
And now the more important question. I did this in Jersey. I signed something so the Jersey "people" know I have it. Can I use it in Pennsyltucky? I didn't think to ask.
It's probably a moot point anyway. I'm useless in an emergency. I just stand there blubering.
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