nanowrimo_lj | NaNo Pep Card: Day 10

Wow, with the drama of earlier, I'm glad I didn't try and post today's card. The inability to post woul dhave irritated me to no end, and at a time when such irritation would have been most unhelpful.

So here we go!

A friend of mine, who is an EMT, says that people at restaurants choke more often than you imagine. According to him, the real danger isn't the choking, it's the bathroom. Because the moment people get a chicken wing lodged in their throats, they do a curious thing: They use the last of their oxygen to politely remove themselve to the bathroom, far away from anyone who might be able to help Heimlich it out.

If at any point you start having difficulty with your novel, the worst thing you can do is suffer silently. Complain in great detail to your support team and anyone else who will listen.

Curse your characters and their mothers. Crumple up this card and hurl it in the trash. Let the frustration out. You'll be surprised at how much clearer your writing vision is after a good venting.

Today's flashcard from the No Plot? No Problem! writing kit, the genius brainchild of Chris Baty.

...I know you're not supposed to refer to it as the Heimlich Manouver anymore, so you can tell how long ago these cards were written. (For the record, they're now to be called 'abdominal thrusts', according to the nice man who re-certified me for emergency first-aid and CPR two months ago.)

Just an FYI :)

And for the record? I vent my frustrations by taking them out on my protagonist. I managed to make her cry by novel's end last year. ~~I'm mean ^.^~~

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You definitely need a large grain of salt. Or perhaps the American Guidelines are different from the Canadian Guidelines?

Because my instructor said that back-blows were not to be done and for a conscious victim that was still able to cough you were to merely encourage them to continue to do so.

The reason for not using back-blows is the simple fact that when someone hits you on the back when coughing, your natural reaction is actually to inhale sharply, or it may startle you and make you gasp, which is counter-productive to what your body is trying to do (i.e. expel a foreign object from your airway), and may actually make matters worse by getting the object lodged further down the airway.

After they moved to true choking, and they accepted your help as a first-aider, then - and only then - did you move into abdominal thrusts.

(If they refused your help - which is foolish to do but happens, nonetheless - you can do nothing but wait for them to pass out and then move into procedures for non-responsive-non-breathing victims.)

i wouldn't doubt the guidelines being different. after all the US uses gallons and miles instead of litres and kilometres just to be a pain in the tush. :) i remember reading something about that Dr Heimlich was adamantly against the renaming because 'abomdominal thrusts' weren't descriptive enough. ::shrug:: i couldn't find anyone that specifically said "this is why it changed" hehe :)

Hee :) Well, we learned a lot of interesting stuff, to say the least, and indulged in a little procrastination (which is never a bad thing ^.^).

I guess this is one of those things that shall remain a mystery for a little while longer :)

NaNo Pep Card: Day 10

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