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My First Aid Course has been Completed : I Passed

On Thursday night at SES, we completed our first aid course. Although the tests were supposed to be on the next Thursday, one of the instructors was going to be away then so we had to do the tests this Thursday. Anyway, first of all we learnt about bandaging, sprains, and stuff like that, then we did some practising. After the practising we were called into a separate room to be tested on CPR and first aid.

For the CPR you had to apply everything you’d learnt about checking for danger, checking for responses on the casualty, etc. You then had to do the actual CPR, which is 2 breaths and then 30 compressions.

After finishing that, I went on to the written test, which consisted of 10 multiple choice questions. The old test that they used to use contained 25 questions, I’m glad I didn’t do that one! I wasn’t sure of 1 or 2 questions so the instructor explained which was the correct choice.

Now that I’ve passed the testing I will eventually receive a certificate saying that I’ve done the testing. Every so often I will be notified that I need to renew the certificate to make sure that I still know how do first aid. Of course this won’t as hard as the actual course was :) .

[tags]ses, cadets, first aid, course, yeppoon[/tags]

November 5, 2007 – 2:22 pm | Posted in Daily Life, Information for Locals | Also tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Welcome to the New People!

I’d just like to welcome the new people that have come to this blog as a result of the letterboxing that I did. On here you’ll find information about my local area (Woodbury, Adelaide Park, Cap Coast), as well as news of what I’m up to with my web design business.

My name is Jylan Wynne and you can find out more about me by going to my about page. As you can see on that page, I also run a photoblog called Contrasting Sharply.

Anyway, have a look around and if you like what you see, consider staying up to date via an email subscription or the rss feed.

October 30, 2007 – 1:44 pm | Posted in Daily Life, Information for Locals, Miscellaneous | Also tagged , , | Comments (0)

How A Bobcat with Treads like a Tank Came to be at Our Place

As you can see I’m starting to experiment with weird, interesting headings in order to draw people in :) . Do you think I’m succeeding?

Dad hired this bobcat to spread out a few of the piles of dirt that had been delivered to our place (I never told you that we had heaps of dirt delivered for free, did I?), as well as doing a few other jobs as well. He chose this type over the normal ones with four wheels because the tracks does less damage to grass and doesn’t compact the ground as much. Photos below as always.

Bobcat #1
Coming off the truck.

Bobcat #5
This is the future pad for a shed (a bit smaller than the current one) that dad wants to build some time.

Bobcat #2
About 4 months ago we moved the chookpen to a temporary spot while we built another chookpen further down from its old location. Because of this, we wanted to get rid of the concrete that had been used for the corner posts. Dad was annoyed because he spent days pouring the concrete and putting up the corner posts, but the bobcat just came along and took them all out within 10 minutes!

Bobcat #4
Here he is spreading dirt our around the place that the next chookpen will go. The dirt was spread out so that water can’t run across the dirt but instead goes around it.

Bobcat #3
Dad also wanted to make the slope on one area of the pad more gentle. Some of the dirt used to do this came from a mound (there are mounds about 60m behind the bobcat that were put in to provide a border for the house pad), and the rest came from some dirt mounds that are behind and to the left of where this photo was taken.

[tags]local, yeppoon, hire, bobcat, dirt[/tags]

October 26, 2007 – 11:55 am | Posted in Daily Life, Information for Locals, Photography | Also tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Knife Wounds, Impalings and 3rd Degree Burns

Like my sensational headline? On Thursday night (18th Oct) at SES Cadets we started out first-aid course, and in the manual that we were given they had pictures of the above injuries that can be seen by going here (be warned: these images may offend some people as they are very graphic).

First-Aid Book Cover
The cover of my first-aid manual

We will be doing the first-aid every week for about 4 weeks. This week we learnt how to do CPR, which is actually quite easy once you know what to do. First of all you need to ensure safety for yourself, bystanders and the injured person. You then need to do the COWS check. COWS stands for Can you hear me, Open your eyes, What’s your name, Squeeze my hands.

After you’ve done that, the person’s airway needs to be cleaned it it has anything blocking it. After clearing the airway, normal breathing needs to be checked for by looking, feeling and listening. If the person is not breathing or moving, an ambulance needs to be called.

Once all that is done, the actual CPR needs to be started. The head is tilted back and you give the person two full breaths, while blocking their nose so the air can’t escape. The compressions then need to be started. The old way required you to give 2 breaths and 15 compressions, but it has been changed to 2 breaths and 30 compressions.

That process (2 breaths and 30 compressions) needs to be continued until an ambulance arrives, the person regains consciousness or you just can’t do it any longer. If the person starts showing signs of recovery you need to roll them on their side and check for breathing. They then need to be reassured.

The process that I described above is for adults, but for children and infants the process is a little bit different.

[tags]ses, cadets, first aid, course, yeppoon[/tags]

October 21, 2007 – 4:53 pm | Posted in Daily Life, Information for Locals, Yeppoon | Also tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Lightning Storm

On Friday night we had quite a big lightning storm. One flash was so close to us (about 1/2 a kilometre) that the line of lightning appeared to be made up of sparklers (those little party things).

I accidently shot a few photos while everything was lit up, and you can see those below. Unfortunately my camera (or my reflexes) aren’t good enough to take photos of the actual lightning.

Lightning Storm #1
This photo shows how dark the storm clouds were (it was still quite light when they rolled in)

Lightning Storm #2
One of my accidental shots in the middle of a lightning strike: this tree was about 300 metres away from where I was taking photos.

Lightning Storm #3
Another accidental shot during a lightning strike.

October 14, 2007 – 12:33 pm | Posted in Daily Life, Information for Locals, Photography, Woodbury, Bungundarra & Adelaide Park | Also tagged , , , | Comments (0)