I’m struggling tonight. I was at work today and am the only first aider in the office block.
I was carrying out an audit in the factory where there is no tannoy. I was in the factory for about an hour. On my way back up, my boss rang me but we’re not supposed to use phones in the factory.
As I got upstairs, I went to ring him back and saw that my lad had text me to ask if I’d heard the tannoy for me.
I rang my boss and he said to get to the far end of the offices.
When I arrived, a lad in his mid 20’s had suffered a cardiac arrest and had not reacted to CPR from a first aider from another area. They’d got the defibrillator and after the first shock, started breathing again.
The paramedics arrived and took him away. It’s hard to tell how he was doing. I feel shit that the people around who saw it all unfold had to wait because I wasn’t in my office and they had to wait for someone else to come.