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Dh accident me useless

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Piixxiiee · 20/12/2019 08:38

So Dh fell yesterday (over a kids toy!) Face first into a wall. Blood everywhere, possible broken nose, concussion and split lip up to nose.... I was the only person there so was teting to stop bleeding etc. But honestly it ended up with dh sitting me on chair telling me to take deep breaths and head between legs! Ridiculous! No idea why I'm like this with blood. I literally feel like I'm going to be sick and faint. Anyone else? Anyone know how to get it under control?

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Piixxiiee · 20/12/2019 08:38

Dh is ok I should add!

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Gramgram · 20/12/2019 09:33

Get yourself on a first aid course in the new year. You may then find that your reaction to injuries is more useful rather than sheer panic. DH choked on some meat recently and was turning blue. As I had been on a course I was able to thump his back and dislodge the food. I also knew I might have to use the Heimlich manoeuvre, the first aid course helped me to react instinctively.

So glad your DH is ok, but please consider a first aid course, it should help you.

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Piixxiiee · 20/12/2019 09:39

Thanks will do, I'm fine when it's me but other people's blood 😖

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Lunafortheloveogod · 20/12/2019 09:53

I’m the opposite, and nothing’s worked for me so far. I can physically draw someone else’s blood, deal with any amount of blood/gore on someone else like there’s absolutely not a problem and it’s totally normal.
But when it’s me I faint any time a needle pricks me or I see my own blood.. nearly 30 and I still feel sick when that time of the month comes round... I had to get a friend to “fix” where I had my implant removed because there was a tiny 5mm long bit of tendon or something hanging out and I kept panicking (there was no blood or feeling in the thing I just kept touching me).

So I’m not fully subscribed to first aid will help you.. my career didn’t help me Blush it might’ve made it slightly less intense but that’s probably more of a ive seen xyz and this is a paper cut.

Aposterhasnoname · 20/12/2019 09:57

I went on a first aid course, my fellow trainees got some great practice in when I fainted flat out at picture of a broken bone poking though the skin.Blush

thebabessavedme · 20/12/2019 10:04

tbh if you are like this with blood there proberbly isn't much you can do about it - my dh is a fainter, totally useless in a crisis, blood just makes him pass out, he even passed out when we had to have to cat put to sleep Grin he ended up being taken care of when I had a my first colonoscopy, there was me, a bit woozy and needing to dash off to the loo and the nurse was laying him on the floor with his feet on a chair.
he is a practical, sensible person at all other times, just cant do blood and medical procedures.

oh, and I have even had to turn off The Excorsist as went all faint and had to lay on the floor. Grin

PrincessIsAUnicorn · 20/12/2019 10:05

I thought I was ok with blood. When I worked in a nursing home, one of our dear residents had a urine infection (which came on over night), she couldn't walk unaided. She tried getting up on her own, fell head first on to her bedside table, I was the first of the morning shift to turn up, so was asked to go with her to the hospital. Well, the nurse got a bic razor and basically hacked/shaved the hair off that was around the cuts, so he could glue them together, I saw black spots, then the next thing I knew, my deputy matron was asking me if I felt better, when I said I was, she roared with laughter and said I was no longer allowed to accompany any patients to hospital as they have enough work to do, I was embarrassed Xmas Blush🤷🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️
Now, I'm not too bad with people I don't know, but anyone I know, nope! And most definitely not my own Xmas Confused

ShirazSavedMySanity · 20/12/2019 10:05

I’m the same.
My DS had a fairly bad accident earlier this year which required surgery. At the moment it happened I was calm, organising what needed to happen, talking to him, keeping him calm.
The moment we arrived at the hospital and they started to talk to us about what they we’re going to do, I felt faint, sick, became hot and sweaty and they had to call a nurse for me. I was so embarrassed.
It happened again at his follow up appointments.
DH has dealt with it all since.
I felt so ashamed and I was trying to be calm and composed for DS but my body doesn’t agree.

Pleased your DH is ok, it could have been much worse

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Piixxiiee · 20/12/2019 10:32

Oh I'm glad I'm not alone! Yes it's a bit embarrassing really I'm 40... had 2 babies no problem but a cut head and I'm out!

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potter5 · 20/12/2019 10:38

Years ago my friend told me about her hysterectomy. It totally made me feel ill and I had to breath in and out of a paper bag.
God knows what I'd be like if I actually saw any blood!!

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