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My friend fell from the stairs. And she’s suffering a severe pain. She texted me and asked for my help. And my poor memory could remember my first aid trainings. So I surfed the net and researched for the most reliable one. And according to Bupa, if you have sprain or experienced almost alike, and you just want the basic treatment, you should do the following:

Treatment

Treatment depends on how serious the injury is.

Early treatment

All soft tissue injuries should receive the same immediate first aid treatment. Treatment follows the RICE procedure, which stands for the following.

• Rest the injury initially, then re-introduce movement so you don’t lose too much muscle strength.
• Ice packs or a bag of frozen peas wrapped in a towel should be applied to your ankle to reduce swelling and bruising. You could also immerse your ankle in ice. You should not apply ice directly to your skin as it can give you an "ice burn" - place a cloth between the ice and skin.
• Compress your ankle by bandaging it to support the injury and help decrease swelling.
• Elevate your ankle by resting your foot above the level of your heart and keep it supported.

Further treatment will vary according to how badly you have sprained your ankle.

Applying heat - eg warm baths or a hot water bottle - may be soothing. They encourage blood flow, the opposite effect of ice, so these treatments should not be used during the first two days while swelling is developing.

Your GP may refer you to a physiotherapist who can advise you on exercises and may use massage, heat, ultrasound or other treatments. A sports medicine specialist may help you if you play professional or competitive sports.

I hope it helped..  

It was already 5:00 in the afternoon when we left Davao. It was said that it’s a seven hour travel from Davao to Cagayan de Oro. We passed via Bukidnon which it was really scary coz it was already dark and foggy and yet we were still in the middle of nowhere in Bukidnon. Some of friends were teasing "Silent Hill", a scary film.

We reached CDO at twelve midnight already. We ate at Chowking then we looked for a bar to party! We partied like a rockstar at Ghana bar right in the center of CDO. We spent the night there and at four in the dawn, we travelled across CDO to the port and headed on where we should be, Camiguin!

We reached Camiguin at around 7:00 in the morning. We didn’t eat our breakfast yet but it was fun. We went to "gu-ul" spring, I’m not sure with the name, as our first destination. Then we went to katibawasan falls, after the falls adventure, we went to Ardent Hot Spring to relax and gave ourselves a break from a long travel. We also ate our first meal of the day Then, we passed by the old church and headed to Sunken cemetery as the next destination. After there, we went to Soda Spring, in which it was told that the water smells like sour and tastes like vinegar. My curious friends tasted the water and lol it wasn’t really tasted and smelled like as what should have expected. It had a different smell though. As if it was a gas came from the underground water. A different kind of smell of a gas, I guess that’s why it’s called Soda Spring. Then we headed to our last destination of the day which was Sto.Niño Cold Spring and it was indeed cold.

We spent our night in a small renting place fronting Paras beach resort. By the next morning, we went to White Island. After white Island, we prepared ourselves to go back home. We left Camiguin at 1:oo in the afternoon. We ate our first meal that day at Nita’s seafood restaurant somewhere in Misamis. Then we passed by Butuan to change our Route in heading back to Davao. We stopped at Butuan to eat dinner at Kuya Egon’s place. Then we left Butuan at around 9 in the evening. Again, it was a scary trip. We arrived in Davao at around 3:30 in the morning.

 You can check the pictures in my multiply account Shamai’s Multiply

I can’t believe this! What I have studied for four years are now starting to decay and rot. I almost forgot the things that I have learned for how many years.

And I hate the fact that I think I’m going to start from scratch again. But atleast not the basic ones. I can still remember the basic ones. 

*Sigh* . Should I change my path now? or refresh everything?

I was once known as brutally frank and I guess I’ll still stick to it.

I wrote something on my blogger and when I saved it, there was an error says "There are errors on this form ". I wondered what would it be. I checked the words and wonder if I had written something that can interrupt the code but there wasn’t. I deleted some of the contents and when I did that, it was already okay. What do you think was the reason?

I can’t wait for Saturday. We are going to Camiguin .

I’m really having a hard time here! My internet connection is very slow and risky! If I type something, there’s a very big possibility that it will be lost. And I’m playing a game in my facebook and if the Internet connection is slow or sporadic, I will always lose the chance to get what I am aiming for..

OMG! I am really slugging! I feel like Im very fat now. I’m so lazy to move and even to think! What’s wrong with me? I don’t like this!

I always think of other people rather for myself. I find challenges with other people than to myself. And now I’m quite tired of it. I wanna grow and become somebody with my own risk. And I think its time to change.

Think for the future and for thy self

I’m trashing out some old stuff here like my blogroll and others. I will also try to update this as much as I could. Picx? hmmm.. its in my multiply and friendster

Other things? I’ll try to updat you what’s new about me and my other blogsites..