By: Blonde One
We Blondes have lots of first aid experience between us. We are both fully training to administer first aid and particularly in the outdoors. On several occasions we have had to use our skills: both for minor and more major incidents. Luckily this skill isn’t called on too often!
After a recent walk, Blonde Two decided that she needed to take some medication to sort out some aches and pains. She opened her well stocked first aid kit and removed two capsules that looked decidedly dodgy to me. They were huge, blue and white capsules that looked to me as if they were intended for some other kind of administering (if you understand what I mean?!). After Blonde Two had taken the tablets and finished her fit of the giggles she did check the packet and luckily they were intended for oral use! Her aches and pains soon disappeared; was it the capsules or the giggles that cured her?
Always get worried by first aid kits dug out of rucksacks – mine have been known to have aspirin and paracetamol blister packs that were not in their original boxes and so have become disconnected from their use-by dates. Usually by a decade or two, when I get round to working out when I last used the first aid box. Remind me not to lend anyone my elastoplast either! (They don’t make it like that any more.) (It used to be very good.)
Haha. I think lots of people are guilty of out of date first aid bits and pieces. Fortunately I need lots of spares for training so I’m always pleased to find things nearly out of date!