What weekend?

What a Queens Birthday Weekend! I spent it volunteering for the Northern Combine 3 day cycling tour and it was freeeeeeeeezing! I was Chief First Aid Officer and there were also people out on the course that were qualified so for the first two days (3 stages) I spent time helping out on a corner and also at the finish line helping with the judging while waiting for any calls if needed to go help people. Thankfully for the first 2 days I didn't need to patch anyone up, but 1 other person did.

Today I was lucky enough to get in the car with B grades chief commisaire to learn some commisairing stuffs and be a kind of roving first aid if needed and unfortunately it was needed and for B grade. Helped patch up a person there and then another one at the finish line who I suggested go to his local hospital to get his shoulder and ribs x-rayed

I got back to the finish to hear that C grade also had a crash and this one was quite a bit worse. One guy had a great black eye coming up and a big and messy gash on his chin, so I covered that up and cleaned him up a bit and recommended that he go to a local hospital to get his chin cleaned up under pain killers and most likely get some stitches. My next patient had lost a fair bit of bark off his upper left leg and left elbow and in order to patch his leg, he had a shower and just had a towel around him - the other males in the men's changeroom all had to comment about me being in there lol, but it was the best thing to do really.

There is going to be quite a few sore bodies tomorrow.

I'm so glad I bought my Man Jacket during the week! If I didn't have that it would have been a miserable weekend. Saturday morning was REALLY cold and standing outdoors for 6+ hours was tolerable as I was dressed properly. Sunday was almost as cold but it was also raining! With my waterproof Man Jacket with a hood, all I really had to worry about was my face/glasses getting wet and that also was OK if I turned around when possible so the rain didn't hit me in the face.

All up I am glad I did volunteer, w/out volunteer's an event like this couldn't even happen.

Back to work to recover/rest ;)