http://www.redcross.org.uk/standard.asp?id=89386.

For a multitude of reasons to be honest…

Last night, on the way home from meeting however, the reason I do so was demonstrated. Driving in the heavy rain, I witnesses an RTC 100 yards in front of me – pizza delivery bike vs car (you can guess who came worse off!).

I stopped in a safe place, got my hi-vis jacket on (well it was pouring down with rain and in the middle of a busy junction) and went to see if I could be of any assistance. A private ambulance had stopped at the same time (ex LAS crew working on it, so they at least had a good idea of what to do). The pizza guy was face up on the roadway, responsive, no obvious signs of injury, but seeing he had gone over the bonnet of the car and landed heavily on the roadway, c-spine protection was first priority, so I assumed management of his head and neck.

Of course the rain decided to pour down at that stage, so there I am, on the ground, maintaining this guys neck position whilst getting soaked to the skin lol.

A FRU turned up about 5 minutes later, by which stage I had done a verbal assessment of the patients injuries, loc, gcs and managed to get one of the private ambulance guys to do a quick secondary survey for me, which revealed a ? dislocated/fractured right shoulder, pain score of 10!

The LAS FRU was hapy for me to maintain what I was doing and after about another 10 minutes, the ambulance turned up – did a quick hand over to them whilst still on the ground holding his head and neck in neutral (arms sore by this stage hehe), they did a top to toe, confirmed the shoulder (it was obvious) and started to get him ready for collar and boarding.

Still raining……

All in all, about 20 minutes holding his neck and head, then after he was collared, onto a scoop and into the ambulance (ohh, he loved the Entenox too) so he could be properly assessed and pain management administered.

Big (genuine) thank-you’s from the FRU and the ambulance crew (C321), saying that I had done a very professional job.

That’s why I volunteer with the British Red Cross. To make a difference.

Release notes 04.150210.004

New pages added:

• wordpress tutorial I
• Minor tweaking and recoding completed
• sud domains will be available in few days
• navigation STILL buggy and therefore not available  -  please be patient and utilise your ‘back’ key lol

Release 005 due at end of week (or earlier if I get 2-3 hours peace and quiet at home to complete the coding)

Features planned for 005 (in no specific order)

• wordpress tutorial II – time to get your notepad.exe working for you!
• new youtube video on homepage
• dormant sub-domains to be deleted
• navigation system to be trialed on a subdomain for stability and other testing
• new content release including

1. photos
2. About us pages
3. Contact pages
4. Feedback pages

These four releases will be in ‘beta’ format only and URL’s will not be set in stone, therefore please do not bookmark them (they will be un-indexed for spider searches)

Thats all for now

Some news coming on a political note – have been asked to stand as a ‘paper’ candidate in the forthcoming local authority elections – why not?! More details on this in due course.