I’m quite lucky in that I can “compartmentalise”. The job is very stressful, so without that I would be a gibbering mess. Or more so.
My bosses are pretty good with support.
My only real worry is keeping it from Narelle. She worries too much about me and I doubt her mood would be improved by the gory details.
People who are competent cope magnificently with incidents that to others are seen as a crisis/anxiety producing situation. To administer CPR competently is a skill that should be taught to all, it isn’t a difficult skill to master, the realisation that CPR is required is the difficult part and keeping gungho cowboys away from the casualty, where they can cause more damage than remedy.
Hats off to you Terry, you’re obviously competent and quite a cool reassuring character. If I need CPR I hope someone of your calibre is around, if it’s you and my lungs need inflating, please mate no tongues.
Me, for coming across as “Hey, look at me. See wot I done !”
It wasn’t the point of the post. The point was that society has bred a generation of self obsessed, me-me-me types who can’t see past their own self importance.
It appears I have become the very thing that I loath
In mitigation, I was quite stressed and needed to vent.
You didn’t come across like that. I read it as the perfect example of self-obsessed twattish behaviour on behalf of the interloper, whilst you were doing the necessary… not surprised you were angry…