Today I had an appointement from a 93 yr old lady to look at her violin bows, but on the way she was involved in a fender bender and was late but finally showed up. I looked at the two bows, one was a nice bow I told her was worth $1-2000, as she was getting ready to go I was shocked to see blood all over my floor and her sock was soaked in blood. I told her she had to get to the urgent care immediately, but as she was waiting on my porch I was horrified to see a continual stream of blood shooting out of a small wound on her shin, I immediately changed my story to we have to call 911 and stop the bleeding, because she was loosing a lot of blood, my presence of mind led me to fashion a tourniquet out of an old sheet, wrap it tight twice around her leg and tie a double knot, then call 911. I made the decision stopping the bleeding was the first priority before calling 911, about 15 min later the paramedics arrived and both the paramedics and the workers at the ER complimented me on my tourniquet. If I hadn't stopped the bleeding and she had continued to bleed out for the 15 min it took for the paramedics to arrive, she may not have made it. I have no medical training, but its ingrained in me when you hit an artery you have to stop the bleeding pronto, and so we had a good result, the ER told her she would need some stiches but she refused a transfusion, even though the paramedics said they could see 100cc of blood on my front porch. I did have to spend 30 min cleaning up the blood on the floor, but I just thank God that she is OK, and will have no long term ill effects from the incident. All in a day's work!! [EDIT]
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