I showed up at my last tuning of the day today a little after 5PM, I usually don't work that late. At about 5:30 I went outside of the mobil home to get my vac from the car, face down in a little rock garden next to my car was an elderly gentleman strugleing a little and trying to get up. I ran over and could see he was in trouble, my phone was in the house, I tell this guy I'll get some help and run up to the house to tell my clients to call 911. He probably weighed 220 so I didn't think I could get him out of there, nor should I try, he had fallen over a little brick border. For the next 10 minutes or so I'm trying to keep this guy comfy, watching his lips turn blue, I get a sheet from my car and make a little pillow for him. Finally the medics get there and we pull him out of the rock and roll him over on the parking area. The medics ask if I know CPR, I tell I was certified 15 years ago but never used it, they have me help by holding his head in my hands as they start an airway and administer CPR. They were short handed. It's a lot of work to work on someone like that for a half hour. It's also dark and we're using my flash light to save them the time to get their's. 30 minutes latter they pronounce him dead and I go back in to finish the tuning while my clients get back to their bridge game. His name was Al, he was 85, his wife was in the mobil home accross the street, the neighbors went over to tell her, I didn't have any desire to go in there so I just left, he was still covered up in the street with a sherriff waiting for the coroner to arrive, I left the sheet under his head. You might want to know CPR and, not like me, get recurrent training. Had this guy not been in a face down possition needing lifting out, CPR probably would have made the difference, the medics told me I was correct in not trying to move him Not much I haven't had happen while tuning, I haven't had to deliver a baby, yet. Fenton -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090119/b0f020bd/attachment-0001.html>
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