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 This was just yesterday at school.

 

2nd period had just finished. I was just finishing putting my books into my locker, when something pushed me into the guy beside me. I thought that it was assholes goofing around next door, but nobody was doing anything.

Then I looked down.

There was a girl at my feet, out cold. Nobody else seemed to have noticed her pass out, so I had no idea what to do. I sort of stood there, wondering if I should get on my knees and try to remember my First Aid classes. It was petrifying.

Luckily a teacher noticed and called the girl by name, so I guess they knew each other. The teacher told me to go to the office and get somebody,so I went and did exactly that. when I got back she was still out, but the teacher and principal brought her around and helped her to the sickroom.

I still haven't seen her back yet, but I think she's fine. It just made me realize how real everything actually is when it happens, and how you commonly end up completely unsure of what to do. It made me realize as well that I need to be totally prepared... in case something like that happens again and I'm the only qualified person available.

So, I guess that the moral is to always be ready for that sort of thing. You never really know when it might happen. 

 

I hope all that was legible enough.

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Joined: 07/03/2010

Parchment wrote:

So, I guess that the moral is to always be ready for that sort of thing. You never really know when it might happen. 

 

Smart.

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Joined: 06/28/2010

Oh, this reminds me of something that happened in my french class last semester.

One student usually comes in and sleeps through class and listens to his music. He did just that one day of presentations, came in, put his head between his arms on his desk and went out listening to music. After about ten minutes the teacher decided to single him out to get him to pay attention, and he didn't respond. Another student pulled the earphones out. Normally this would have pissed him off and he would have smacked the kid in the face. The teacher noticed this was odd and went over to try and get him to wake up. He didn't. Everyone was ordered to the caf and the paramedics were called. He had been in for heart surgery earlier that day, pacemaker I believe.

He's fine now.

I completely empathise with everything you've just said. I was certainly unsure of what to think or do in my situation, and the shock of real danger being around and able to hit a completely normal day is a little disturbing. About as much as seeing grey flesh and not knowing whether the person's alive or dead, if you could have done something to help them or whether they were fine all along.

 

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Joined: 06/28/2010

is there an internet equivalent of the story basket?

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 One thing people get is that they don't want to over-react and do something big if it really is just innocuous. My policy is, as much as I hate feeling embarassed, better to be safe than to figure out it was serious when the body shits itself, because by that point I think you've gone beyond help. 

 

And yes, my personal philosophy is phrased in that manner.