Mrs Redboots
06-22-2005, 08:47 AM
Oh, what a morning!
It was all quite normal to start with, but then one of our Junior couples, L & S, had a nasty fall, and S skated straight into L's fingers, cutting two of them. Their coach is one of those who turns very queasy at the sight of blood, poor her, so they called on my coach and his wife to help. They dressed the cuts, which weren't that bad, but did bleed profusely, and then sent her up to the local chemist to see if they could dress it better (perhaps putting a steri-strip on it), or whether she needed to go to hospital.
They departed, and life went on, and about 3/4 of the way through my lesson they returned, very cheerful, saying that the pharmacist had said that stopping the bleeding was the right thing to have done, but that she should have a tetanus injection. We had come off the ice to talk to them - and somehow or other, L came round behind me, I didn't see her, and stepped back - right on to her toe, and she was wearing flip-flops! Fortunately, although it obviously hurt her, she saw the funny side.... I am not too sure that I did. Of course I apologised profusely, and my coach dressed the toe..... But poor L, it really wasn't her day!
Then another woman very nearly missed the bench when sitting down... at which point, the duty manager said that one more incident and he would close the rink! He was laughing, but not all that far from being serious.... at which point, I went home!
It was all quite normal to start with, but then one of our Junior couples, L & S, had a nasty fall, and S skated straight into L's fingers, cutting two of them. Their coach is one of those who turns very queasy at the sight of blood, poor her, so they called on my coach and his wife to help. They dressed the cuts, which weren't that bad, but did bleed profusely, and then sent her up to the local chemist to see if they could dress it better (perhaps putting a steri-strip on it), or whether she needed to go to hospital.
They departed, and life went on, and about 3/4 of the way through my lesson they returned, very cheerful, saying that the pharmacist had said that stopping the bleeding was the right thing to have done, but that she should have a tetanus injection. We had come off the ice to talk to them - and somehow or other, L came round behind me, I didn't see her, and stepped back - right on to her toe, and she was wearing flip-flops! Fortunately, although it obviously hurt her, she saw the funny side.... I am not too sure that I did. Of course I apologised profusely, and my coach dressed the toe..... But poor L, it really wasn't her day!
Then another woman very nearly missed the bench when sitting down... at which point, the duty manager said that one more incident and he would close the rink! He was laughing, but not all that far from being serious.... at which point, I went home!