equipment 16 April 2008
The London McLynns are visiting Tenerife at the moment, where the Mammy is camped out for 5 weeks (she’s loving it, no more than the Husband is loving Ukraine)*Anyhow, the one unsettling thing for my sis-in-law (the brilliant painter, Rebecca) is that there’s a cardiac arrest machine behind the bar in their hotel – and by that I mean a device that helps when it happens rather than causes it. Now, I can see how that might freak someone out BUT it’s proven that if people suffering an arrest get meaningful help at the scene they have way more chance of making it further. It’s surely no worse than seeing a fire extinguisher on site – and who wouldn’t be delighted to see one of those? I am asthmatic – it’s really mild BUT I have had 2 attacks and I can tell you that, although on those occasions I had no idea how serious they were, I now know how they could be have been terminal. If I had had a simple respirator-type** thing at home it would have all been a lot simpler and less frightening or hazardous. So hurrah for safety equipment on show – hope it all works too…but that’s a whole other can of something potentially nasty.
*am I the only one sensing a pattern? **cannot remember the name of the device but it’s standard
