The power of healing - James White

Over the course of the weekend our First Aid teacher, Jim Butterworth, taught trained us in Standard First Aid 'A'. Thankfully, all of us passed and are now certified. For those of you who do not know how to access a situation, hopefully I can help.
First, you must know that your number one priority is to keep yourself safe (better to have one person to deal with than two). Next, when approaching the injured person, look out for any hazards (Electric lines, loose branches, people, etc). When you reach the person, introduce yourself (if they don't already know you) and follow six simple steps, also know as S.A.M.P.L.E.

Signs and symptoms
Look for any bleeding, bruising, pain, and if they are conscious then you can ask them what hurts and what symptoms they are experiencing.

Allergies
Always remember to ask about their allergies. It could be vital to their lives. Allergies aren't     necessarily to food, but also to medicine such as Ibuprofen.

Medication
Medications are important, because certain medications affect others. For example, Ibuprofen numbs the effects of aspirin. Also, if they already have medicine to counteract what is happening

Past medical history
Knowing their history is important because it might help you know/figure out what is happening.  

Last meal
Remember that it is possible to be low on blood-sugar and that it is very important to eat food because food.

Events leading up to the incident
If you know what happened, you could save a lot of time. (it isn't hard to know that someone broke a leg when they jumped of a cliff and heard (and felt) a crack in their leg).

Thanks for reading my weekly blog post,
James White
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Vince's back

Hey its Vincent again. This week has been great. On bigwater beatdown bacon
Thursday I had the opportunity to run Big Trickle. It is a nice little technical creeky run. We all had great lines. Friday was comp Friday. I ended up with a 0. My loop wasn't quite straight enough and didn't get quite around for my Felix. Even so, it was great to see everyone try tricks! Saturday and Sunday was first aid certification. We were learning how to deal with scenarios that my come up in life and on the river. Next, on Monday we all had a great time on the river. On Tuesday, we had SRT. We all learned to throw ropes and be more helpful on the river. Race day Wednesday was another fantastic day we had a race on little trickle and I didn't do as well as I liked but it was pretty fun! To conclude our day we split into groups. Some people raced on Upper No Name and Lower No Name. Andrew won for the second time for race day. On the other race it was a run to the start and into our boats. Jordan and Gabriel were the winners of that.

 My blunts are getting closer and bow stalls are getting closer. By the end of keeners I am hoping to blunt consistently, airscrew, helix/Felix, flatwater loop, and any other tricks I can get. With our keener coaches Stephen, Juanita, Devin, and Tyler. So far keeners has been an experience of a lifetime and still stoked from much more!