Here are my answers to this week’s SYW questions from Di
1. Have you ever attended a First Aid Course?
I did a first aid course when I was studying for my teaching diploma.
2. Apart from grazed knees and applying a band-aid, have you ever applied First Aid?
Despite having taught on and off for 40 years, I never needed to apply First Aid. Nobody suffered serious harm on my watch.
3. Are you squeamish about the sight of blood?
I’m not squeamish but somebody bleeding or in pain is not something that I handle well. I find medical procedures fascinating but I don’t like looking after sick people.
4. How far away is the nearest hospital?
The nearest hospital to us is 30 km away. It is a government hospital. Our nearest private hospital is 120 km away.
Gratitude:
Home is where the love is.
Meme from Vanda
The above is so true. I am thankful for my caravan and my house. In every home I have had there has been love and that is what makes life so special.
Adventuring into Retirement 
Thanks for joining in Helen. Lovely gratitude. When we sold our house in 2007 and ended up travelling with a tent and then a caravan as the weather was so dire, we were together and that was what mattered.
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Great comics too 😊
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Thankfully, I never had to deal with a medical emergency whilst teaching either.
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Earlier this week Marilize was part of a team that attended to a seriously allergic little girl who stopped breathing after a bee sting at the school where she works. It required them to rush at such a speed to the hospital that our local neighbourhood whatsapp group requested a BOLO for a possibly stolen vehicle on the roads leading out of the suburb… Marilize still gets emotional when talking about it as they made it to the hospital just in time.
There’s a huge burden of care on teachers like you and Helen, way beyond standing in front of a class, that parents seldom appreciate.
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Wow! 120 km is so far away. It always amazes me the distances some people have to travel to get to things.
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It’s not so bad unless it’s an emergency! We enjoy living where we are, and most things are available to us in our town or a bigger one 30km away.
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My sister and I were just speaking of that the other day. We live in town and we only have to drive about 10 minutes to the grocery or a department store or the doctors. But we were driving through a town near where our parents are buried that is out away from other towns. I know many folks from this town and they would not chooses to live anywhere else.
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There are indeed pros and cons to everything 🙂
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There are indeed.
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