Struggling with Fate
Apr. 17th, 2004 07:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rowynI've been duking it out with Prophecy all week. I've been slogging determinedly forward, trying to force my way through the current scene, but it's not gone well. I've got a ton of notes on angles to try, things to use, tacks to take, etc., ad nauseum, but I still find myself staring at the current chapter and going, "Bleh."
I am very tempted to skip this one and move on to the next. I'm not quite sure why I don't. True, some of the coming scenes will hinge on what I ultimately do with this one. But there's still a fair bit of material that won't be significantly impacted by the details of this particular chapter.
Maybe the problem is that I don't really want to do any of those, either.
And as Saturdays go, this one wasn't as lazy as I would've liked. I went to a class on CPR today, and I now have a little white card saying that I know how to perform CPR.
And please, oh Lord, let this knowledge never come in handy.
At one point, the instructor is explaining where to put your hands when doing CPR, so as to minimize the risk of breaking ribs. "If you hear a loud snap, locate the notch of the breastbone again, shift the position of your hands, and try again. If you hear another snap, again, reposition your hands, and try again."
Ouch.
Of course, CPR is, in essence, what you do to dead people. If you are performing CPR on someone, it's because they have no pulse and are about to go from "mostly dead" to "all-the-way-dead."
Still.
Boy, I hope I never need to know this stuff.
I am very tempted to skip this one and move on to the next. I'm not quite sure why I don't. True, some of the coming scenes will hinge on what I ultimately do with this one. But there's still a fair bit of material that won't be significantly impacted by the details of this particular chapter.
Maybe the problem is that I don't really want to do any of those, either.
And as Saturdays go, this one wasn't as lazy as I would've liked. I went to a class on CPR today, and I now have a little white card saying that I know how to perform CPR.
And please, oh Lord, let this knowledge never come in handy.
At one point, the instructor is explaining where to put your hands when doing CPR, so as to minimize the risk of breaking ribs. "If you hear a loud snap, locate the notch of the breastbone again, shift the position of your hands, and try again. If you hear another snap, again, reposition your hands, and try again."
Ouch.
Of course, CPR is, in essence, what you do to dead people. If you are performing CPR on someone, it's because they have no pulse and are about to go from "mostly dead" to "all-the-way-dead."
Still.
Boy, I hope I never need to know this stuff.
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Conga-rats on the CPR training!
Date: 2004-04-20 09:30 pm (UTC)CPR gives them a fighting chance to survive if done soon enough and is continued until better measures can be used.
And if you are doing the compressions enough to move enough air you will most likely crack the sternum and possibly a rib or two.
The main thing to worry about is to not break off the tip sticking down on the bottom of the sternum. If you do compressions to low and break that off, it can travel around the chest cavity and cause allot of damage.
Another thing to be careful of is to not blow to hard or to fast when doing mouth to mouth. Slow and steady or the air will go into the stomach and cause vomiting. Most likely by both of you. ;-P
Don't expect to victim to stand up and thank you, but it does help sometimes.
My uncle had a heart-attack about fifteen years ago and fortunately my aunt saw it happen. She called 911 and they told her what to do. Since they lived in the country, he never would have survived without it.
Good luck working through your writing blahs. :-)