Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!lipman From: lipman@decwrl.UUCP Newsgroups: net.med Subject: Lay-people doing CPR Message-ID: <5639@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Mon, 13-Feb-84 13:33:16 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.5639 Posted: Mon Feb 13 13:33:16 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 14-Feb-84 01:58:48 EST Sender: lipman@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Western Research Lab, Los Altos, CA Lines: 56 From: asylum::simon Path: "...decwrl!rhea!asylum!simon" I too have taken CPR. I have not had to use it and am periodically recertified. If a friend starts choking, I usually look to the heavens and exclaim, "Please lord, don't make me have to do CPR." I have only had one possible chance to use it and I was dining with someonw (make that 'someone') who is trained as an EMT. I let him rush to the aid of the woman in distress. A woman in the restaurant (who turned out to be a nurse also came to the victim's aid). I think that if I was the only one able to give aid (or if it could not be determined immediately that other help was around) that I would have no fear of administering CPR. I do still hope that I never have to do so. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Re: Extended Wear Contact Lenses I, too, wear extended wear lenses. I have worn them up to about a week but usually find it comfortable to wear them three or four days and then take them out for a day. My first pair felt good from the day I got them until the day they disintegrated. I have had the extended wear lenses for about three years and each replacement has been for the same reason. That is, after about a year, I put them into the enzymatic cleaner one night at bedtime and I wake up to find one of them noticably thinner. I then go to clean the lenses and the noticably thinner one breaks. I asked the doctor about this and he says a year is about the most you can expect a pair of these lenses to last. Fortunately, I usually need a prescription adjustment at that point anyway. Each new pair I get seems to feel better than the last. I never experienced the blurring problem. I have had momentary blurring but it always clears after a blink or two and happens very infrequently. I do experience some drying out but less than when the lenses were new. I will have to try a humidifier and see if things clear up. All things considered, I would give my extended wear contacts a rave review. (I am a camper and I can remember sterilizing my lenses over a campfire - now I just clean them after I get home). Flying Blind... Denise Simon, Digital Equipment Corporatin, Hudson, Ma.