Gemma, lifeguard of all things good and pure...!

I work at Peterborough Regional Pool. For those who know Peterborough and the wonderous people off it, please pray for me when on a late shift...! So...

I get to work and within 2 hours, I have a 1 1/2 year old boy who has fallen over in the shower and his whole left arm has gone limp and he does NOT like moving it! Attempting to put a sling/support his bad arm on a 1 1/2 year old boy who has no idea who the hell you are, let alone what you are doing, doesn't generally go to well. So off to hospital he goes with one of our toys rather than a sling round him. (Thief! See they start them younger in peterborough) 3 hours later I'm in the teaching pool about to talk to another lifeguard when, as he's coming to talk to me we see 3 kids drowning and he jumps in to save them. BANG goes the drowning alarm (its like a scary continuous big ship noise, i'm not a fan!). I'm left in the teaching pool, with 2 lessons going on about 10m from the action and can't do anything about it. My pool was busy and wasn't going to clear very easily, otherwise I would have had to go in and help. THEN 2 hours later, I'm doing a pool test when I see a lifeguard go round to a couple of ladies hunched over the side of the pool. BANG, we hit the drowning alarm for a 2nd time! One of the ladies is having a epileptic fit! Her girlfriend has brought her to the side where she has subsequently banged her head (her friend, bless both their hearts, was not the sharpest tool in the shed) The lifeguard has gone in the pool to help support her, she fits for 5 mins and come round very slowly. Another 5 mins to get her out the pool and onto a chair. We've called an ambulance, as she had already had another fit earlier today. She's freezing, we've got blankets around her and she's still half conscious ish but she want a hot chocolate with 3 sugars...GEMMA TO THIS RESCUE!!! So I'm down stairs at reception, getting a hot chocolate when the receptionist starts asking me questions about the lady and then puts me on to the emergency services, I'm talking to 999 people. Go me! I inform the man of the situation and they tell me they are on there way. Yay! I go back upstairs to
poolside, she's been sick and fitting again. Its lasts another 5 mins, she come round and then the paramedics turn up and take over and we send another off to hospital.

As they say, 3's a charm!