Post by USCGME2 on Jun 4, 2017 20:58:15 GMT -7
Drilling this past Saturday, myself, my LT, and one of my petty officers were returning from lunch. As we neared the base we noticed a man doing what looked like CPR on a woman in the park nearby next to their car. We stopped and he had her half out of the car and was in a total panic and not even close to doing the compressions right. We got her off the curb and flat on the grass. She was blue, not breathing and completely unresponsive with zero pulse. I did 30 compression and stopped so my buddy could do a rescue breath. Well, that's when I got a better look at her and saw all the needle marks up and down her arm. Yeah, we had no barrier so we got the husband to do the breaths while my partner helped tilt the head. None of us was puttin lips on her for nothin! The chest rose a bit and I did another cycle. About half way through the third cycle fire fighters showed up and about that time she coughed a bit and not wanting her vomit on me and I turned her on the side. The fire dept took over about then and hit her with some Nar-Can cause the dude told them what she took (heroin).
Not gonna lie, I was a little amped to think this woman was dead or nearly so and now was showing some sign of life. I was NOT prepared for what happened though...They worked on her with the breathing bag thingy and did some sturnum rubs. After about 3-5 minutes of mostly being unresponsive, this chick sits straight up, looks around, and comes straight to her feet! I was thinking Holy crap, that just happened! She tries to get back in the car on the passengers side and turns the key. The EMS guys get her out and settle her down a bit. No kidding here folks, that gal was smoking a cigarette and put her hair up in a ponytail less than 10 minutes after she had just DIED. D-E-D, dead. As in, not with our world anymore. As in circling the drain. Now, At this point I could have mind wrapped her dying or, lying there half conscious or whatever. She just popped up to be little feet, signed the waiver to go to the hospital and left with her skeeter man smoking her cigarette and off they went. It was like it never happened. Like she just tripped and fell and and was none the worse for it. Didn't even say a word to us or the EMTs. Just took off. Oh yeah, did I mention she was DEAD only 10 minutes ago?
I had never used CPR before and this was quite the experience. I don't regret helping, just amazed at the dichotomy of it all - fully dead to fully awake. The funny part, I just got FA/CPR trained at my other job a week ago Friday. A good friend of mine is an Paramedic and he said that happens like that all the time. The Nar Can apparently takes them right out of the high most times and they gonntheir merry way. Ya just never know when a situation will pop up and your training just kicks in.
Not gonna lie, I was a little amped to think this woman was dead or nearly so and now was showing some sign of life. I was NOT prepared for what happened though...They worked on her with the breathing bag thingy and did some sturnum rubs. After about 3-5 minutes of mostly being unresponsive, this chick sits straight up, looks around, and comes straight to her feet! I was thinking Holy crap, that just happened! She tries to get back in the car on the passengers side and turns the key. The EMS guys get her out and settle her down a bit. No kidding here folks, that gal was smoking a cigarette and put her hair up in a ponytail less than 10 minutes after she had just DIED. D-E-D, dead. As in, not with our world anymore. As in circling the drain. Now, At this point I could have mind wrapped her dying or, lying there half conscious or whatever. She just popped up to be little feet, signed the waiver to go to the hospital and left with her skeeter man smoking her cigarette and off they went. It was like it never happened. Like she just tripped and fell and and was none the worse for it. Didn't even say a word to us or the EMTs. Just took off. Oh yeah, did I mention she was DEAD only 10 minutes ago?
I had never used CPR before and this was quite the experience. I don't regret helping, just amazed at the dichotomy of it all - fully dead to fully awake. The funny part, I just got FA/CPR trained at my other job a week ago Friday. A good friend of mine is an Paramedic and he said that happens like that all the time. The Nar Can apparently takes them right out of the high most times and they gonntheir merry way. Ya just never know when a situation will pop up and your training just kicks in.