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Post by bjd on Apr 24, 2017 5:42:32 GMT
Lots of pollen here too this year. All the cars that stand outside are yellow. It must be because it got warm quickly and no rain to keep it down.
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Post by rikita on Apr 24, 2017 6:18:51 GMT
i am sneezing lots, so i suppose there are some kind of pollen here too.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2017 6:55:06 GMT
I was reading that the incidence of hay fever has increased 30% in the last 10 years.
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Post by rikita on Apr 24, 2017 11:32:11 GMT
i probably contributed to that - i never used to have allergies, but in the last ten years, i have been getting them (not sure exactly which ones, as i never had myself tested yet, but there will be some plants growing in spring among them).
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Post by questa on Apr 25, 2017 1:24:10 GMT
Blame the greenies...again. Everywhere we are mass planting trees so our planet has a fighting chance of survival. More trees and bushes = more pollen = more hay fever. Try vacuum cleaning clothes worn outside, wearing cotton face mask, wiping furniture, window sills etc with damp cloth. try long acting antihistamine pills.Take it for the planet! PS Don't wear mask into a bank...it makes them nervous.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Apr 25, 2017 8:56:02 GMT
I also have a dog now....I have never had any problems with previous pets but that doesn't mean that I won't have with this one. Haven't had a dog in the house for 13 years...my immune system is older.
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Post by whatagain on Apr 25, 2017 9:34:02 GMT
Wouf ? What dog ?
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Post by Kimby on Apr 25, 2017 11:56:26 GMT
Perhaps it's not the dog, but the pollen dragged in by the dog...?
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Apr 25, 2017 13:24:11 GMT
Ah...a possibility
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Post by tod2 on Apr 25, 2017 16:39:39 GMT
That was quite an ordeal, Tod. I suppose many businesses had to close during the outage. Were schools open? No, all gone home for Easter weekend.
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Post by questa on Apr 25, 2017 23:49:06 GMT
Kimby...more likely the dander from a cat or dog
Dander definition, loose scales formed on the skin and shed from the coat or feathers of various animals, often causing allergic reactions in susceptible persons.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 26, 2017 4:47:40 GMT
Took the dogs out after supper for a walk and as we were returning, we heard a crash less than a half block ahead uphill. It was definitely vehicular and metallic, but not as loud as two cars colliding. There was also a short scream or yike, then silence. When we got to the corner there was a motor bike down and a teenager or very young woman lying on her back on the street and I think partly under the bike. We continued up to the middle of street where I met two sisters who have businesses across from each other. Both were out in the street turning back cars coming down the hill. There is a supper bar almost to the corner with one of the waiters standing at the door who asked me what happened. I told him and asked him to call the transit police to come turn back traffic from the street. He immediately got on the phone to do so. I got to the corner and stood there for around 45 minutes turning back traffic, as the cops never bothered coming. Meanwhile, it took the ambulance almost a half hour to arrive at the scene of the accident. My poor little pooches were most confused by what we were doing and eventually sat and lay down in the street. When I finally gave up and went on home, the ambulance was still at the bottom of the street, but I heard its siren go off when I was a half block along.
The one saving grace for me out of this incident is that I started to light the water heater before I left so I could shower when I got back, thinking our walk would be 20 minutes at most. The heater has no thermostat so will boil the water into vapor if left too long. Something told me not to risk it, so that turned out okay at least.
I hope that poor girl is okay.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2017 5:02:35 GMT
So many of us take emergency services for granted. We shouldn't.
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Post by questa on Apr 26, 2017 5:14:16 GMT
Oh Dear...firstly, how are you feeling now. After such a stressful episode you too could be in a bit of shock.Phone some friends and tell them of the incident. That usually will allow you to de-brief and feel ok again.
Was anyone looking after the girl? Even to sit with her until the ambo came would have helped her PS How many on this forum can do CPR or have a knowledge of first aid?
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 26, 2017 5:58:59 GMT
Thanks, Questa. I don't feel stressed, but it's awful that an ambulance would take that long. Yes, there were kind people there giving her support.
I can't do anything medical. I usually screw up even putting on a band-aid.
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Post by rikita on Apr 26, 2017 7:10:46 GMT
the one time i was witness to an accident (back in kerala, sitting in a bus that hit a motorcycle, though i was looking into a book when it happened, but saw him lying in the street afterwards, and only realized later no one from the bus was helping him, as i had assumed that was were the driver and ticket guy went rather than flee the scene, and later people from the nearby village were hitting against the bus angrily because no one had helped him) i think i was in shock, was shouting at a friend a bit later when she told me to hurry climbing into a new bus, and then crying ... also felt bad for not helping - but as i said, i assumed that was what the driver was doing, and at the time i had no idea at all about first aid ...
by now, i have done two short courses on child first aid, though never an official first aid course - so i know theoretically how cpr works, and sometimes go through the order of things in my head, but am not sure if in a real situation i'd have the nerves to remember it all ... i hope i would ...
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Post by rikita on Apr 26, 2017 7:12:15 GMT
oh and i hope that girl is alright. indeed scary to think of an ambulance taking that long, here i'd assume they'll always be quick, though i don't know for sure ... for very bad cases there are helicopters sometimes, the landing pad in our area is in the little park across the street from me, so i see them, maybe two or three times a year i think ...
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Post by tod2 on Apr 26, 2017 13:43:45 GMT
Meanwhile, it took the ambulance almost a half hour to arrive That would be very quick in our city!
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 26, 2017 13:53:24 GMT
Well, luckily this was at night so there was less traffic and probably the ambulance arrived more quickly than it might have otherwise.
What really galls me, what whips up my always smoldering anger with the corruption that ensures there is poor infrastructure, is that the previous day there was (yet another) big parade and there were cops on every corner to direct traffic away from the parade route. But a girl lying injured in the street with paramedics trying to give aid? Naaaah, that doesn't warrant even one measly traffic cop.
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Post by tod2 on Apr 26, 2017 15:40:49 GMT
Bixa - Are you in Mexico....you could be in Africa for sure. Looks like things are just ( almost) the same in 3rd World countries. How do we ditch the corrupt bastards?? If they haven't managed the Mafia in 100 years we have no chance.
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Post by whatagain on Apr 26, 2017 22:36:24 GMT
I got a course in the army called EHBO - eerste hulp bij ongeval - first help in case of accident. So I can reanimate someone or massage his heart. More is complicated.
only time I helped by a car accident the amublace took an awful long time too but nobody was wounded. The passenger of the car which had been struck by an old jerk whou decided to cross the semi-highway (a four lanes road) when he definitely had not the possibility to do so. She actually came back from her first session of kine after another accident. Then her brother arrived and nearly hit me, mistaking me for the old jerk? Who didn't deserve to be hit... quoique ... the guy was worthless in dealing with the accident. Just lost. Old may explain some of it, but I think even young he must have been a jerk.
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Post by mich64 on Apr 27, 2017 1:40:13 GMT
I hope the young lady will be okay. Thank goodness there were people like yourself Bixa that stopped and helped in any way they could. Every part of emergency care is helpful, whether it is placing the call for help, directing traffic, administering first aid or speaking calming words.
I have taken CPR and First Aid courses and have used the skills on a few occasions. When in Costa Rica my friend slipped and broke her wrist and went into shock. Watching two Firefighters switch into medic mode was intense. Of note, the helpful hints binder provided by the villa owners directed us to drive immediately to hospital, not to wait for an ambulance.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2017 4:14:37 GMT
I confess that I have never taken a course, but it is good to know that after the terrorist attacks in Paris, the number of people who learned the basics more than doubled in the city. How to use a tourniquet in the case of catastrophic hemorrhage had been abandoned over the years, but it has returned to the courses.
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Post by bjd on Apr 27, 2017 6:42:29 GMT
In the past years I have noticed defibrillators in public places like shopping malls. I know my kids had first aid lessons in high school (it wasn't obligatory, they went on their own time) but I don't remember much of what I learned years ago.
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Post by lagatta on Apr 27, 2017 12:58:52 GMT
I took them when I was very young, but need a refresher. I saw an Indigenous man, obviously under the influence of drink, drugs or both, lying passed out in the street during a street sale with a wound to his head. People were passing by without paying any attention. I insisted that a security guard call the first aid personnel - who were indeed the firefighters. Obviously this guy needed other forms of help, but he needed medical attention there and then. The firefighters were professional and non-judgemental - not the only time I've seen them helping people in the street who were under the influence of substances.
Now there are synthetic opiates that kill much quicker than abuse of alcohol or classic street drugs (and are often combined with the latter substances) so time is of the essence.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2017 14:15:26 GMT
I was reading that the incidence of hay fever has increased 30% in the last 10 years. Very likely due to LEAFBLOWERS!!!!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2017 19:34:31 GMT
Finished the last of my Easter chocolates.
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Post by whatagain on Apr 27, 2017 19:59:22 GMT
Goota wake up at 5 am tomorrow. I hate that.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Apr 27, 2017 20:07:51 GMT
Got up early and made 24 white chocolate mud cakes to take to an ex-colleague's leaving do. A Manager. Later discovered that said cakes stayed in the office to be eaten by the management team...none offered to lab staff. hmph. (good job I offered them around in the lab first )
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 27, 2017 20:17:11 GMT
Whooo ~ nothing like being in a management position and being childish and greedy! (Did you save me a cupcake?)
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