Don’t knock it. I lost an arm in school but the caretaker put a wet paper towel over the remaining stump and it regrew my arm by home time.
One of three basics provided to soliders in all wars.
Tea bags.
Cigarettes
Cold compress
Sports it was always the magic sponge
Aye, you know you ain’t gettin’ out of school
My year 3 teacher got melted hot glue from a hot glue gun all over my arm. She ripped it off after it dried and put a wet paper towel on it. I was crying in pain but the school didn’t send me home early or call my parents to tell them.
When my parents picked me up from school a few hours later they were furious and when they took me to hospital the nurses were shocked my teacher ripped it off and that I wasn’t sent to hospital immediately.
My entire arm was bandaged up for a week and had to go back to the hospital daily to have it cleaned and the dressings changing. They kept saying my teacher should’ve left it alone and they could’ve easily gotten it off and avoided all the pain and hassle. So that’s my paper towel story!
My sister stood on a nail in a piece of wood in around 1994. The nail went right through her foot, so she hobbled to my nan’s house with a piece of wood stuck to her foot. When she got there, my nan pulled it out, put some germolene and a plaster on it, and told her to go out and play.
That wouldn’t happen now… they would be in the hospital for 8 hours waiting for an x ray.
And yet, the amount of hand-wringing parents nowadays who drive straight to A&E in their SUV with their precious child, resulting in an immediate bandage deployment by a nurse on a small bruise, leaving every other fucker still waiting around reception to get into triage…
When you’re older it’s the same when you visit the GP but it’s paracetamol instead.
Throws bucket of sawdust on hallway vomit.
I remember running into the corner of a big concrete balcony. Blood completely covered my face. Looked terrible. 10 minutes later after a little wipe with a towel i was back out again.
The ultimate British school first aid kit who else remembers these bad boys
True that! lol do you remember the saw dust they used to use to adsorb vomit?
Cured me enough to still have to do PE in my pants when I pretended to fall on the stairs.
“I think my wrist is broken!”
“Really? Let’s see”
*Rotates my wrist in all kinds of directions causing horrible pain*
“Yeah it might be”
*Puts wet paper towel on it*
Been almost 20 years and it still hurts a bit sometimes.
Not a British thing; totally a GenX thing.
I helped out as a playtime supervisor at my local school during lockdown, and even though I’m first aid trained, all I did was tell the kids to go get a wet paper towel 🫣😂
PE teacher did this when I snapped my Achilles, he was also the first aider. When I was with the ligament obviously wrapped around my leg muscle he said “no blood. Walk it off”. Years later I put dog shit under his car door handle. Karma be crazy like that.
Cut yourself: wet blue paper towel.
Broken arm: wet blue paper towel.
Lost a leg: wet blue paper towel.
Death: wet blue paper towel.
You fall from the top of The Apparatus? Believe it or not, wet blue paper towel.
We have the best primary school PE lessons in the world because of wet blue paper towel.
wow yeah +1 healthpoint such medkit many heal
Just a flesh wound anyway
Now you mention it, “cracking my head open” happens way less often than I was less to believe as a kid
Aah…..the good old days! 😄
Fell off my bike on Thursday, and ended up getting 5 stitches in my chin, but my knee absolutely would’ve gotten a wet paper towel on my knee in primary (my secondary is less reliant on them), pretty sure either i or someone i know at one point got a matching injury and *did* get a wet paper towel in
Now where’s my ice pack?
Aha! I got to experience the next generation in primary school medical technology. The reusuable icepack!
Some bright spark thought giving a bunch of kids a ball made of hard plastic and spiked was a great idea. Still remember it now, no idea who threw it, but they called my name. I looked over, and hit me on the forehead and stuck there for a bit. Almost cartoon like. The spikes weren’t too long, and it wasn’t really embedded in my head, but it hurt like hell.
Suddenly primary school memories from 2000 are coming back to me.
Another is the distinct smell of the toilets.
And the green sand kept in red metal buckets along the corridors in case anyone threw up on the floor
this things could fix anything fr
I remember at school I had a frozen Vimto bottle smashed off my head from one of the floors of the tower block. Slowly stumbled over to the staff room, dripping a line of blood across the yard. Had a couple of them slapped on my head, and I was fine.
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Don’t knock it. I lost an arm in school but the caretaker put a wet paper towel over the remaining stump and it regrew my arm by home time.
One of three basics provided to soliders in all wars.
Tea bags.
Cigarettes
Cold compress
Sports it was always the magic sponge
Aye, you know you ain’t gettin’ out of school
My year 3 teacher got melted hot glue from a hot glue gun all over my arm. She ripped it off after it dried and put a wet paper towel on it. I was crying in pain but the school didn’t send me home early or call my parents to tell them.
When my parents picked me up from school a few hours later they were furious and when they took me to hospital the nurses were shocked my teacher ripped it off and that I wasn’t sent to hospital immediately.
My entire arm was bandaged up for a week and had to go back to the hospital daily to have it cleaned and the dressings changing. They kept saying my teacher should’ve left it alone and they could’ve easily gotten it off and avoided all the pain and hassle. So that’s my paper towel story!
My sister stood on a nail in a piece of wood in around 1994. The nail went right through her foot, so she hobbled to my nan’s house with a piece of wood stuck to her foot. When she got there, my nan pulled it out, put some germolene and a plaster on it, and told her to go out and play.
That wouldn’t happen now… they would be in the hospital for 8 hours waiting for an x ray.
And yet, the amount of hand-wringing parents nowadays who drive straight to A&E in their SUV with their precious child, resulting in an immediate bandage deployment by a nurse on a small bruise, leaving every other fucker still waiting around reception to get into triage…
When you’re older it’s the same when you visit the GP but it’s paracetamol instead.
Throws bucket of sawdust on hallway vomit.
I remember running into the corner of a big concrete balcony. Blood completely covered my face. Looked terrible. 10 minutes later after a little wipe with a towel i was back out again.
The ultimate British school first aid kit who else remembers these bad boys
True that! lol do you remember the saw dust they used to use to adsorb vomit?
Cured me enough to still have to do PE in my pants when I pretended to fall on the stairs.
“I think my wrist is broken!”
“Really? Let’s see”
*Rotates my wrist in all kinds of directions causing horrible pain*
“Yeah it might be”
*Puts wet paper towel on it*
Been almost 20 years and it still hurts a bit sometimes.
Not a British thing; totally a GenX thing.
I helped out as a playtime supervisor at my local school during lockdown, and even though I’m first aid trained, all I did was tell the kids to go get a wet paper towel 🫣😂
PE teacher did this when I snapped my Achilles, he was also the first aider. When I was with the ligament obviously wrapped around my leg muscle he said “no blood. Walk it off”. Years later I put dog shit under his car door handle. Karma be crazy like that.
Cut yourself: wet blue paper towel.
Broken arm: wet blue paper towel.
Lost a leg: wet blue paper towel.
Death: wet blue paper towel.
You fall from the top of The Apparatus? Believe it or not, wet blue paper towel.
We have the best primary school PE lessons in the world because of wet blue paper towel.
wow yeah +1 healthpoint such medkit many heal
Just a flesh wound anyway
Now you mention it, “cracking my head open” happens way less often than I was less to believe as a kid
Aah…..the good old days! 😄
Fell off my bike on Thursday, and ended up getting 5 stitches in my chin, but my knee absolutely would’ve gotten a wet paper towel on my knee in primary (my secondary is less reliant on them), pretty sure either i or someone i know at one point got a matching injury and *did* get a wet paper towel in
Now where’s my ice pack?
Aha! I got to experience the next generation in primary school medical technology. The reusuable icepack!
Some bright spark thought giving a bunch of kids a ball made of hard plastic and spiked was a great idea. Still remember it now, no idea who threw it, but they called my name. I looked over, and hit me on the forehead and stuck there for a bit. Almost cartoon like. The spikes weren’t too long, and it wasn’t really embedded in my head, but it hurt like hell.
Suddenly primary school memories from 2000 are coming back to me.
Another is the distinct smell of the toilets.
And the green sand kept in red metal buckets along the corridors in case anyone threw up on the floor
this things could fix anything fr
I remember at school I had a frozen Vimto bottle smashed off my head from one of the floors of the tower block. Slowly stumbled over to the staff room, dripping a line of blood across the yard. Had a couple of them slapped on my head, and I was fine.
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