>>Anything more serious and I get on the horn and call in the pros.

Well, the point of First Aid training is to make sure that when the pros get there, they have a live body to work with and not a dead one. <img src="images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Basically, after 4 minutes without oxygen, irreversible brain damage sets in. After 10 minutes without oxygen, death sets in, and that's also irreversible. What's the average response time for an ambulance in your neck of the woods? Even if the ambulance averages 5 minutes, that's long enough for you to end up with a loved one who sits in a wheelchair and babbles. (Sorry to be crude, but that's essentially how my dad spent the last five years of his life after his stroke.) <img src="images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

Another advantage of a FA course is that people who've taken them tend to have fewer accidents, and when they do have an accident, it's on the average less serious.

And it's a bargain - you could take 5 First Aid courses for the price of a personalised Sebenza. <img src="images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />