That was a strange experience...

[franceslievens]

In the middle of my talk about animal rights I suddenly feel the sides of my vision drop away. In home circumstances this is no good, but standing in front of a class when cold sweat runs down your back and you're wondering if you can hold yourself upright it's unbearable. So I sit down on my chair, explain to the kids (8 very girly fifth graders) my blood pressure dropped, and that we're not going to do the planned discussion, but they should prepare it in writing.

"Miss, I have that too sometimes. I feel very weak and then I have cramps." Loud Mouthed Maroccon Girl should be in secondary school already. I'm not surprised she knows all about cramps.
"Yep, that's the thing," I answer.
"You should eat some sugar, miss." Ah, my sweet girls, they have the solution at the ready. I reach into my rucksack for my cookies. Eating one already gets me back on my feet.

Later, when class ends, their form teacher calls to me if everything is alright. Yep it is again, but I can believe the kids can get a bit of a scare when their teacher suddenly says she isn't feeling too well.
At least I didn't faint. Last week there was an incident with lots of blood and a kid being carted away in the ambulance. The first aid teacher took one look at the problem, and fainted on the spot.

Comments

[sister-luck.livejournal.com]

Eeeeh, scary!

I'm totally useless when it comes to first aid. I don't faint, but I'm always the first to delegate. It's good that in our team we've got an ex-nurse...

[frances-lievens.livejournal.com]

Well, the kid fell on her head on some metal railing. It was an open wound of 10 cm on her forehead and the bone was visible. The form teacher kept her cool and started pressing the wound until paramedics were there. At the end of the day she was rather shaky and wondered aloud how she had been able to keep her cool. It wasn't until the ambulance arrived she started panicking. I must say: kuddos to her for that.

I don't know what I would do. I don't even kow what correct procedures are. The worst I saw was a kid getting violently sick in my class. He felt even worse because he was sick in class and everyone saw it -- poor thing.
I think I'm all for delegation in cases like these...

[sister-luck.livejournal.com]

Yikes! That's nasty.

[frances-lievens.livejournal.com]

Is what I thought when I heard about it. Afterwards we heard there was a scratch on the skull-bone, but nothing serious. She'll have a nasty scar, though, I think.

[frenchani.livejournal.com]

I wasn't feeling well on Thursday either and my students were aware of it. One of them even kind of scold me for being there, while looking almost ready to collapse, instead of being at home in my bed...and another one gave me two pills of Doliprane.

[frances-lievens.livejournal.com]

Aww, poor you. I'm hope you're feeling better now.

I was feeling fine when I left home, so there was no reason for me to stay in bed, and when I ate something the feeling went away, but it was a bit scary.
The kids kept saying I should go home, because the younger ones would be freaked if I passed out chen they were with me. Luckily it looked worse than it was. :-)