Nick Arnett wrote:
> Speaking of emegency medicine, this weekend we saw about the worst that
> kids playing football has to offer. One of my twin grand-daughters is a
> "mascot" for a Pop Warner team -- sort of a junior cheerleader. Not
> something we look with pleasure upon, as it brings up images of
> Jon-Benet Ramsey, too much competition and concern about appearance for
> a five-year-old. At her game on Saturday, one of the kids -- these are
> jr. high students -- didn't move after getting hit. About 15 minutes
> later, we were watching an medevac helicopter land on the field to take
> him to the trauma center at U.C. Davis with a spinal cord injury. And
> my son-in-law wants (or at least wanted -- he wasn't there) our grandson
> to start playing football when he's eight next year.
Last time a medevac helicopter was anywhere near my neighborhood, it had
nothing to do with football, and everything to do with machinery causing
something nasty to happen. A branch was shot about 18" into a
neighbor's body cavity, through the groin area, and he pulled it out.
If something is shot into your body and is still there, don't try to
pull it out. If it's hit something major, you could bleed to death
before help arrives, or do some more damage in the removal, whereas if
you just leave it, they can get you to a trauma center and deal with its
removal and the consequences there.
If the firefighter neighbor hadn't answered the call and called for the
helicopter as soon as he saw the guy, we'd be out one heckuva good
neighbor.
Julia
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