This Morning:
Between 8-9-30am I am waiting for my mail, before I have to leave for work. No mail arrives.
I leave for work. Two hundred yards down the road my mail and my postman are lying on the side walk ahead of me. He is lying in the recovery position, dark red blood comming from his mouth, with his distraught colleague beside him. Passers by are calling an ambulance.
I'm at a loss - what can I do? My first aid training amounts to a day in an office almost a year ago - in effect I'm helpless. He could be suffering a heart attack, a stroke, an epelectic fit, and I wouldn't know were to look let alone start. All I can do is put an emergency blanket over him (an EDC carry) and hope that helps. ( a cold morning - around freezing) .
I leave feeling low and useless.
Where do Paramedics start? What can a layman do? Probably more harm then good.....its not good
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