Blood

I read a blog entry by this flight attendant, she quoted (link)

in training they told us that cabin crew secure themselves first then help/ assist others, because we are still inside the cabin..

Yes, in order to help others, we need to ensure we have the capability and we know the consequences of our action. It is not about trying to be hero or whatever or anything like it..if we cannot swim, better do not try to rescue a drowning person by jumping into water seeing others do that..

I met two persons during my working life, they had an interesting condition know as blood phobia.

One of them R, he was a sporty person, did long distance endurance run, climb a few mountains around Malaysia before. One day, he was trying to rework a plastic part and he accidentally cut himself, I saw him, he was shivering and nearly fainted. It was no joke at all.

Another person Q, he was my ex-boss. You see, due to the size of my company and its 24 hours operation with many manufacturing lines, managers used to take turn to do night shift. Once, there was this incident, an operator had her finger caught by stamping machine, due to seriousness of the injury, he was paged (on duty that night), the nurse actually need the manager to standby in case need to make some critical decision. So he rushed to the nurse room in no time, upon arriving inside the room and saw the blood stained bandage, he fainted on the spot ! By the way, the operator was ok and just about to have the bleeding stopped. The nurse became panic now, having two patients instead of just one !

Anyway, it was like a big joke for a few months after the incident.

Now I learned that, and always tell people before they rushed off to help some injured victims, can they withstand seeing blood in large quantity , if not, better do not get near or risk become part of the problem, preventing the real injured people from getting the much needed medical attention.

-woody