I checked the chest and back first looking for a bullet wound. When I found the source of blood, which was on his hand, I asked what happened. He had an old shirt from behind the seat wrapped around his hand to help stop the bleeding. Then I said, “wait just tell me on the way.” We were so far in the boonies that we had to drive to the fire station. I offered to drive, but he insisted because it was a stick shift, and I haven’t mastered driving it yet. So I kept pressure on his hand as he shifted to prevent the situation worsening. This is the second P strategy, …show more content…
My husband’s grandpa has a major heart problem only at 60. He has had many surgeries to open up the valves and he even has a defibrillator in the heart. One day, he called me and asked if I can drive him to the emergency room because he felt he was having a minor heart attack. I quickly drove up there and picked him up. As I was driving, I was thinking about my CPR lesson. I was thinking of what I would have to do in case he potentially became unconscious. I made sure I knew where I was so I could give the right accordance to the emergency hot line. I also thought of the steps of CPR to get his heart pumping again. I went over in my head what I would do. Knowing his situation with his heart, I would check his pulse. If he had no pulse I would make sure he was on a flat surface to perform CPR. If he had a pulse I would just give one rescue breathes every five seconds. I kept going over it in my head if I was to perform CPR, thirty compressions, two breathes, 30 compressions, etc., until we made it to the ER. Thank goodness we both made it to the emergency room without him becoming unconscious. I am super glad that I was ready for any situation that my grandpa could of fell