Water Safety 101!
The last thing anyone wants to feel is the heartbreak of finding someone you love laying lifeless in the water. Especially a child, don’t picture it…. really, don’t. Instead, with just a few simple tasks, you will never experience this grief, or regret. This will be time well spent. So, let’s look at drowning prevention and water safety. I worked for years as an emergency room nurse, and was working one Saturday, when an ambulance arrived, with a little curly wet head on the stretcher. The medics were performing CPR on his little body. The medics were called by a frantic parent who had just answered the phone, no more than 30 seconds – a minute, how could this happen? But you see, that is all it takes, as few as seconds. I wish this were my only story, but this one struck home, because this child belonged to one of the ER doctors. According to the CDC, drowning is the #1 cause of unintentional death for children between the ages of 1- 4 in the United States. It is also ranked 3 rd...