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Playing the Victim
Oct. 22nd, 2003 02:56 pmFirst, to get it out of the way, the heating works.
Secondly, my day as an 'A&E patient'. It was like a RPG, only the players were ... well, kinda stupid and the GM was a dirty old man who kept rubbing himself up against my hand.
My character was a road traffic accident victim, seven months pregnant with a fractured femur, dislocated pelvis, PV bleeding and severe facial and scalp lacerations. All this was done via stage makeup (and very well, too -- I looked horrible) and then I was bundled into a room with five other 'victims' and left there while six students diagnosed me for practice and two did it as a part of their exams. Which meant that I spent about three hours lying flat on my back on a gurney in a freezing cold lecture theatre wearing a hard collar having fake IV lines taped to my arms.
Here's something I bet you didn't know; if a pregnant woman who's been in an accident and lost blood has low blood pressure, you have to shift the bump to the left to stop it obstructing a major blood vessel on the right side. I know this because it took a lot of nudging to remind some of the students to do this. One of them moved the bump to the right and nearly 'killed' me.
There were some good things about the whole thing. The medical student who was playing the nurse was cute and kind of nice, and we sat and had lunch together after it was over. After that and killing the nic-fits, I went into my department. Still in the makeup. I wanted to show off. It was so much fun watching some of the facial expressions; the chief radiographer hasn't been able to find words to say to me and Babak nearly freaked out.
So now I'm all clean, with the fake blood out of my hair, and getting something approaching work done. And tomorrow may involve a Radio 4 broadcast thing. I have to decide whether having a social life is more important than getting a decent night's sleep for the first time this week.
Thess
Secondly, my day as an 'A&E patient'. It was like a RPG, only the players were ... well, kinda stupid and the GM was a dirty old man who kept rubbing himself up against my hand.
My character was a road traffic accident victim, seven months pregnant with a fractured femur, dislocated pelvis, PV bleeding and severe facial and scalp lacerations. All this was done via stage makeup (and very well, too -- I looked horrible) and then I was bundled into a room with five other 'victims' and left there while six students diagnosed me for practice and two did it as a part of their exams. Which meant that I spent about three hours lying flat on my back on a gurney in a freezing cold lecture theatre wearing a hard collar having fake IV lines taped to my arms.
Here's something I bet you didn't know; if a pregnant woman who's been in an accident and lost blood has low blood pressure, you have to shift the bump to the left to stop it obstructing a major blood vessel on the right side. I know this because it took a lot of nudging to remind some of the students to do this. One of them moved the bump to the right and nearly 'killed' me.
There were some good things about the whole thing. The medical student who was playing the nurse was cute and kind of nice, and we sat and had lunch together after it was over. After that and killing the nic-fits, I went into my department. Still in the makeup. I wanted to show off. It was so much fun watching some of the facial expressions; the chief radiographer hasn't been able to find words to say to me and Babak nearly freaked out.
So now I'm all clean, with the fake blood out of my hair, and getting something approaching work done. And tomorrow may involve a Radio 4 broadcast thing. I have to decide whether having a social life is more important than getting a decent night's sleep for the first time this week.
Thess
