fandomhigh | Life Skills; Monday, First Period [02/06].

"Last week," said Summer, with a nod, and doing her best to act like she didn't currently have a koala clinging to her at the moment. The Danger Shop itself was not quite the usual classroom, and looked a little bit more like the usual classroom and a clinic had some kind of room-baby, with some desks for them to sit in during the lecture, but some medical tables and paraphernalia scattered around everywhere, too, "we talked about taking care of our bodies on a hygiene level, and this week, we're going to talk about taking care of them on a health level. Specifically," she leaned back almost deftly, expertly, as a koala paw made a reach for her ponytail and, having missed that, reached onto a conveniently located IV pole and, seeing an opportunity, Summer happily urged the koala to cling onto that for a little while so that she could be free for at least a few minutes, "first aid. Now, I'm not a doctor, but, thankfully, there is someone on the island who is, and so I'm going to hand this one over to Dr. Halstead, who runs the clinic here on the island. Doctor?"

Will, who had been watching Summer deal with koala-Stark with a bemused expression, turned his attention to the class. "I suppose I ought to preface this by saying my medical knowledge is human-specific. In practice, so far I've found the skills regarding the basics are pretty transferable, though. Also, obviously, we’re assuming professional medical help isn’t an option."

"So, first things first: you're there to help, not make things worse, so you're going to need to assess the situation. For example, if someone's been stabbed or impaled, your first instinct is usually to remove the sharp object. But in most cases, this can actually make things worse, as whatever's lodged in there is currently stopping the injured party from bleeding out completely. Or if they've got a head or neck injury, moving them may exacerbate said injury," Will explained. He then went through how to properly assess an accident scene and injury."

Summer nodded a long, subtly moving away from the koala for now, with a great appreciation for the fact that Will came out swinging with the stabbing wound. Respect.

"Once you've figured out what kind of injury you're dealing with, then you can go ahead and give first aid. If they're not breathing, the most important thing you can do is CPR to get them breathing again," he went through the steps on a CPR dummy.

"For something like a stab wound- as I said, if there's something in there, keep it there. Next, you're going to want to apply pressure to the wound and dress it if possible to staunch the bleeding. If possible, elevate the wound, but being able to apply consistent pressure is more important, so if it's a choice between the two, go with whatever position allows you to keep applying pressure."

He went through a few other first aid basics, including setting broken bones, as well as cleaning and dressing wounds when one had access to proper first aid supplies.

"And if you've got any questions, I'm here to answer them."

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With an injury in need of attention.

Kurt Wagner

Beta

Gray

TJ Wagner

Josephine Jones

There's a real live doctor in the classroom today! And also a koala, but try not to pay attention to that. Instead, take advantage of the opportunity to indulge in a little Q & A while you have his attention.

Besides, the more questions you ask, the less time you'll have to spend wrapping your classmates wrists and practicing CPR on creepy dummies.

... yeah, no, there was a koala? So Beta was mostly paying attention to that. Though admittedly a lot of this stuff could be pretty useful given Aloy's friends. But mostly Aloy. Medicinal berries couldn't possibly fix everything, right?

Gray did pay attention to the CPR stuff, since he couldn't fix dead with his healing power.

He couldn't fix really major injuries, either, at least not by himself, but he could do enough to keep someone from bleeding to death, so he was less attentive to the rest of the lecture and more...entranced by the koala.

"What if someone's unconscious and you're not sure what's wrong?" TJ asked.

"If they're not breathing? CPR first. If they are breathing, but unresponsive? You'll want to move them into something called the 'recovery position'," he used one of the dummies to demonstrate how to do this. "If you have reason to believe there might be a spinal injury, you'll want to take extra care to keep the head and spine as straight as possible."

Examine and build proper first aid kits!

Find a partner to practice dressing wounds with!

Work on your CPR with the creepy dummies!

There are definitely plenty of different things to practice with the remainder of the time, plus your teacher, a doctor, and a koala around to help!

Should he say it? Was it braggy? He was gonna say it.

"Or I could just heal them? And then spend the rest of the time cuddling the adorable fluffy koala?"

That last part might have been hope speaking.

"Well," Summer started, first and foremost, "the koala is actually Stark, so cuddling would be very ill-advised," was that emphasis there toward Gray? Or toward the koala, who was being very cuddly against Summer's shoulder at that particular moment?, "unless you want things to be awkward when he turns back. And also, if you have healing, that's awesome, do that, definitely, but, this may surprise you, not everyone has healing, and this class is a broad overview meant to be helpful to everyone. Also, who knows, you might find yourself in a situation where you can't actually use your powers. It's a vast multiverse; anything is pretty much possible, so it seems to me like it might be a good idea to pick up a few less-magical ways of going about things, juuuuust in case."

"I don't really know Stark, so I don't care about awkward," Gray argued. "I care about he looks like the cutest lil napping buddy ever~."

And yes, he heard all the other stuff she said and: fair points, but also: koala.

Summer looked from Stark to Gray and back again dubiously, but, at the same time, she'd had to deal with a clinging panda (and his laundry!) since Saturday, and she could honestly use the break.

"Okay," she said, "but if he turns back while you have him, I absolve myself from any responsibility."

And she went to go hand Stark to Gray, but there was one small problem with that. Because Stark seemed to have absolutely no interest in releasing his hold on her any time soon. So Summer sighed, and tilted her head toward the front desk. "I brought some eucalyptus in my purse, if you wanted to dig it out and see if that'll get his attention."

"No, that's okay," Gray assured her, because he could respect Stark koala's autonomy, and also he knew better than to go through a lady's purse. "If he doesn't wanna hang out with me he doesn't have to." Even if he was the cutest.

Who may or may not be wondering if there would be a good way to pass the koala onto Will before he leaves...

Thank you,

doctorgingerspice for the guest appearance!! Mmmm, actual useful class conteee~ent!

People removing the thing that caused a puncture wound is such a pet peeve of mine, so bless you both for including it.

I may only play a doctor on the internet, but I at least know that much!

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