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I can see the writing in the sand now...  pack my penlight to do neurochecks,
and dressings, some tape, and a thermometer.....  don't anyone DARE to go into
labor! 

Trauma nurse and former army medic,

Liz
MN 
--- Lori Bertolucci <loribertolucci@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> And this is why I said I would make sure they appeared fine before I just
> left them. 
>   I have had emergency medical training, and hope I could tell.  :)  And most
> times, people will show some sort of symptoms, like you, asking a qusetion
> you should have known the answer to.
>   Sometimes it is best to just hang out and wait, to make sure....
>    
>   Lori
>
> David LeBlanc <dleblanc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>       I have a warning about this - people will say they're OK when they are
> not. Two examples - a guy passes us at the start of a ride, horse spooks, he
> comes of into the up side of an embankment, doesn't look so good. Horse takes
> off up the road. We asked him if he was OK, he insisted twice he was OK, so
> we went on, and ended up catching the horse a couple of miles later. Some
> other kind person ponied the horse back to camp. The rider ended up getting
> life flighted out and spent a few days in the hospital.
>    
> ....snipped


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