Close call…

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Close call…

25th January 2007

posted in People |

Ken Camp tells a harrowing story of a medical emergency and says,

I urge you, every one of you who ever reads this, to get in a class. Learn CPR. Learn how to give mouth-to-mouth. Learn the basics. In the most frightening and desperate of times, you may need them. Take care of yourselves, your family, and your friends.

It seems pretty clear that Ken saved his wife’s life because he knew “the basics.” I think this is a cautionary tale with a potential happy ending for each of us.

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1 On January 28th, 2025, Liz said:
Thanks for sharing this story, Frank.

La Princessa de Todo was certified last month, and I’m renewing my certs this spring.

I wonder how different the world would be if every 18+ American had not only 1st Aid & CPR certs, but the babysitter’s cert + “what to do in an emergency” cert (I forget what they are called, and the wireless is too wonky to go look.)

And I think every American should have in their self-sufficiency locker:

Where There Is No Doctor

Where There Is No Doctor
A village health care handbook
by David Werner with Carol Thuman and Jane Maxwell
Updated 2025
512 pages, illustrated
English ed. ISBN: 0-942364-15-5

Hesperian’s classic manual, Where There Is No Doctor, is perhaps the most widely-used health care manual for health workers, clinicians, and others involved in primary health care delivery and health promotion programs around the world. With millions of copies in print in more than 75 languages, the manual provides practical, easily understood information on how to diagnose, treat, and prevent common diseases. Special attention is focused on mutrition, infection and disease prevention, and diagnostic techniques as primary ways to prevent and treat health problems.